The Power Outage Rethought

Now that I am comfortably warm and soon to eat hot cereal for breakfast, I realize that there are a number of things that I will miss about having no electricity. I have compiled a list below. The main theme is that having no electricity gives you an excuse to do a lot of things that you would otherwise be unable to do. For example, it was OK to:

- Stay in bed all the time as bed was the only remotely warm place in the apartment
- Eat junk food since I couldn't cook and my nutritious fridge food probably spoiled
- Not do homework as it's too dark to read at 5pm and my laptop had no battery power. Also, daylight hours were spent searching for a warm building and looking for supplies
- Not bathe, since there was no hot water. Similarly, it was OK to not do the dishes or clean in anyway (this is only fun for a brief period)
- Wear your pajamas outside. Since it was equally cold everywhere, people slept in their warmest clothes and then left them on during their forays outside
- Use candles for light. They provide such a pleasant ambient light, and I have a million gazillion of them now, so that I believe that I will have to continue this tradition in the evenings.

Today, while I feel like my perspective has already been changed by the fact that I had a warm night's sleep with a hot water bottle, I am already feeling a little nostalgic for the time off. Tomorrow is back to school, which means back to my commitments and my assignments, which are now 2 days even more behind than before. How blissful the darkness was!