So, there are still a few anachronistic ways that England does not feel like an entirely developed country. I'm sure you've all heard about how they still haven't figured out how to get hot and cold water to come out of the same faucet. But today's complaint is that they seem to be pretty blasé about broken heating systems. By this point, you all should probably have heard about my Westway issues on Saturday with the broken heating system there. Disaster. Nick was climbing better than me indoors for once because he has more body fat to insulate him from the cold (according to me). But today, the heating was broken in the (normally cold anway) law faculty building here. And it's not like it's an ancient building with flimsy old pipes -- it was built in 1995.
Speaking of which, I have another complaint about that building: every classroom has about one plug that everyone with a laptop fights over aggressively. First of all, you would think that by 1995, architects would have thought more carefully about the need for plugs in classrooms, and second of all, you would think that by 2008 the plugless classrooms could and should have been retrofitted. But no.
So those are two rants for today.
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