It happened to me once or twice in Craton, too, but in Craton the HRAs actually had keys to all the rooms. Apparently the guy who hands out keys hasn't been so quick to give them to the people at the library mods, though, as when I locked myself out of my room when heading out to take a shower at sometime after 9 PM today, I ended up finding out that apparently nobody had a key. My RA? No key. The HRA over at Robey? No key. The OPSS guy they sent over? No key...
...except that he actually DID have the right key. He just didn't try that one. It took a second call to OPSS, with much arguing between the RA/HRA and the OPSS guys, more than an hour later before we finally got someone to come in and use the right key to unlock the door again (thankfully the RA was there the second time and pointed out that one of the keys looked like the one that had opened someone else's door earlier, which was probably the Mod 2 master key if not the one for all four mods.)
Other than that today was okay, if a bit uneventful. Did manage to bump into some people (a few of which I hadn't seen before today, and at least one I had met before but never really talked to much) and talk a bit, and since Jonzzey's was open today I had my first sandwich of the semester there (the good ol' #14 on panini bread--basically an Italian sub, and probably my favorite sandwich there.) Also had a visit from my mom, who brought over some stuff that I had forgotten when packing (my "old map" mousepad, some tomato sauce, some French onion dip for chips, and a bowl.) She also brought over my Art History book, since I found out halfway through today that one of my friends needed one and wanted to borrow someone's until the one she had ordered comes in. After I gave her the book, she decided that if the book would work (it's an older edition, but she's taking Art History with Professor Crawford so that should be fine) she would just borrow it for the whole semester and/or year instead of ordering one at all. So I just saved somebody 70 bucks for an Amazon book order, I guess. XD
I also got one of my guesses as to a "Mormon mystery" I had been wondering about pretty much confirmed. One of the Mormon guys here pretty much admitted that the reason why Mormon engagements are so short compared to other people's engagements is because Mormons, just like most everyone else, are horny little buggers and want to start having sex as soon as they can... but unfortunately for them, they have that pesky "no sex before marriage" rule to worry about. Additionally, Mormon engagement apparently feels pretty much the same as when people are just dating but aren't engaged (at least after the initial shock of "holy crap we're gonna get married eventually" wears off) rather than an actual "higher level" of relationship between just dating and being married, since engaged Mormons can't really do anything special that just-dating Mormons couldn't already do (I assume "wear an engagement ring" doesn't really count) and since they're already planning to get married by that point they want to hurry up and get to the can-have-sex-now part.
Basically, belonging to a no-sex-before-marriage religion does not fundamentally change who someone is, and horny teenagers/twenty-somethings are still going to be horny teenagers/twenty-somethings even in a place where they aren't allowed to act like it in public. This was pretty much exactly what my guess was for the reason why so many Mormons get married so early, so it's kinda funny to get it 100% confirmed by the offhand statement of an actual Mormon.
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