A Week into the Semester

Well, it's been a little over a week since classes started up again and no one has posted anything. I guess we're all quite busy and everything, but there has to be something worth throwing up on the ol' Pats on the Back blog.

I'll start with a rant. I'm pretty sure that we've all noticed the many newspapers that seem to collect in the bathroom stalls throughout the day. What I want to know is why do people think that someone else wants to touch their newspaper? Especially the ones that are lying on the floor or wedged between the back of the toilet and the wall. I've had a long standing policy to never touch anything on the floor or touching the toilet without latex gloves. That policy is not about to change. Seriously though, I don't understand why people just leave a newspaper on the bathroom floor, thinking that someone else will want to touch it.

While we're on the topic of bathrooms, has anyone else noticed that people seem to come running into the bathroom about to explode? It's like a bomb goes off as soon as they sit down. I feel sorry for these people, whose body obviously is failing to let them know before the last second that it's that time. I have this really funny mental image of an overweight, computer nerd running down the hall with one hand plugging his rear...makes me laugh every time.

King Tut.