Things are gonna be getting stinky...

Well, it is official. We only have one working water truck AND the water has to be pumped manually into it as the electronic pump is frozen. To make matters worse, there is a massive backlog of people who need water, and for some of us, its not that we need water, its that we need our sewage tanks (or poop-tanks as some of us bloggers call them) emptied and then we would have water again.... because, if the poop-tank is full, the water tank shuts off.... and if the water tank is dry, the poop-tank shuts off. Darcy, from Way Way Up, has captured all of our feelings very well in his poem "Ode to a Sewage Truck"

Fortunately for myself and my roommate, we have not completely run out of water but we are sure that we are EXTREMELY close to it. It's been the week of conservation - no laundry, no cooking things that need a lot of water, no long showers (yeah for sponge baths!), and we have slacked off on doing dishes (although I did have to break down and do them tonight, as I had no more coffee cups left).

However, it is only a matter of time before I head the dreaded "click of death" as Darcy calls it. The moment when the tanks shut off, closing their valves of any chance of anything entering or exiting the tanks.

Being the smart person that I am, (or maybe it's neurotic....), I filled several jugs at school with the precious scarce liquid just so I could make sure that I would be able to have my cup of coffee in the morning and to make a thermos of it for the rest of the day..... as I think every one knows what happens when Kennie doesn't get her CoFfEE in the morning.

CoFfEE!!!!