Irritations Great & Small

Well, it turns out that the suite I have been occupying is slated to be a girl's suite during the school year, so I had to move to a new suite one tier above and on the opposite side of the elevator from where I was. This new room has proven to have both pros and cons, though at this point the cons are greatly outweighing the pros. For example, there is no one else currently living in the suite, so I have managed to rather consistently scare myself multiple times before going to bed on account of how quiet it is. Also, because there is no one else there, there are no pots, pans, plates or other cooking supplies to be found at all. The largest con, however, would have to be that the previous tenets have left the place extremely filthy. I would have posted pictures of this, but a great deal of the aforementioned filth is not of a visual nature. It is a smell of something, somewhere rotting (I have yet to find out what or where). It is the inexplicable but no less disgusting sticky feeling on surfaces which have absolutely no business being sticky. It is the thick layer of something more than dust but less than dirt which coats the floor. Above all, it is the bizarre and disturbing lump of presumably organic matter which is quickly scabbing over the drain in the kitchen sink. On the plus side, I now have two pillows (I kept my old one) and my new shower doesn't leak like my old one did (it would make a small lake on the floor every time I used it).

In light of these conditions I have begun to accrue cooking and cleaning supplies. Yet, I am somewhat hesitant to buy everything I will inevitably need because sooner or later there will be other people living there and quite frankly I do not want to pay for all the cooking utensils and all the cleaning supplies. So far I have managed to acquire 1 pan, 1 bowl, several forks, several knives, and 2 cups. I still need a skillet, a cutting board, several more bowls, maybe some plates, and some spoons before I will be able to cook with any degree of efficiency. It irritates me that I cannot currently cook in the manner to which I have become accustomed, largely because it is not a very complicated system. Every dinner I have made thus far has been prepared as follows:
1. Cook either rice or pasta
2. Take large things (meat, onions, garlic, mushrooms, etc) and cut them into tiny pieces
3. Boil the pieces in oil
4. Add an absurd amount of pepper and a pinch of salt
5. Mix it all together in a bowl
6. Eat

I also need to clean pretty much everything. I had initially hoped that I would be able to wait until more people had arrived to both help and buy stuff, but it's starting to get to me. Fortunately, classes start on Monday, so by Saturday I should have my international roommate(s). The rest of the University doesn't start till the end of October, so I shouldn't have any Israeli roommates until then. I know I had an Israeli roommate in my old room, but that was only because they are still somehow having finals (they have been having finals for 3 months now, it's starting to get ridiculous). At least they have October off. Ok, that's it for this post which, as you can probably tell, was mostly for the purposes of venting my frustrations regarding my new room. More Later