Do you know what’s not cool? Having the ceiling about your shower leak.

Do you know what’s even more not cool? Not having any of the leaking water drain out.

Yes, that is how I found my shower when I woke up this morning.

Fortunately, our maintenance staff was available when I woke up, and they came in to get everything cleaned up and started working on the leak above my shower. In order to do that, they completely tore out the entire ceiling above my shower to get access to the pipes.

Meanwhile, they let me use a spare, vacant room to shower so I wouldn’t have to go to work in the morning all smelly and unshowered.

While I was in one of my university’s buildings today, I noticed a phone sitting on a desk near the elevator. Curious, I walked towards it.

I saw that the phone was unplugged, and that there was a sign posted on the wall right behind the phone.

In case you can’t see it in the image, the sign said, “Emergency complaint line to the governor’s office. The governor cares about your opinion!”

The governor’s office cares enough to put a phone here, but not quite enough to plug it in…

My winter break has come to an end, and I am now back in Madison in my apartment on my university campus.

Like usual, classes don’t start for me until a week later, but I came here early to begin working. Also, like usual, my working hours are extremely flexible, so I’ll be able to stream a lot more than I did over break – which brings me to my next point.

A lot of people have been wondering why I haven’t been streaming much over break. Those who have known me for a while probably know the reason for this, but the newcomers probably don’t. The issue I have is that, back in my home town at my parents’ house, where I go over breaks, the Internet is about as slow as modern-day Internet can get without still using a dial-up connection. I already have trouble watching high-definition video, so I’m pretty sure that you can already conclude that it’ll be near impossible to stream high-definition video, or any video that’s watchable.

Occasionally over break, I might still stream – this is when I’m either at one of my friends’ homes who has better Internet, or I’m streaming something low-quality (like Pokémon) that doesn’t require high-definition.

If you’re not familiar with my stream, you can check it out at Twitch.TV/Parkzer. If you’re interested, you can follow me to be notified whenever I go live (which will be very frequently within the next week or so) and watch me play some League of Legends.

I’ve been asked how my new year has been going so far.

Unfortunately, the answer to that is “not so great.”

Since the night before January 1, I’ve been feeling pretty sick. My illness spiked during the day of January 1 and 2, where I was so sick that I was literally lying in bed all day drinking orange juice and watching YouTube videos and Twitch streams. I slowly started getting better on the 3rd, and today I was finally okay enough to get out of the house for the first time in the new year.

This was probably the most sick I’ve ever been in about 5-6 years of my life. The only time I can remember being this sick is during the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school when I was taking driver’s education.

Summer driver’s ed has a stipulation where, because it’s so short and the days are so long, you can only have one absence, or else you fail the course. Of course, they’re obviously not going to fail someone for actually being really sick for more than a day, but they set that as a rule so people wouldn’t be lazy and miss class when they’re only a little sick.

During a day of driver’s ed, I was so dizzy in the morning that I wasn’t able to balance, and I ended up missing a day. Apparently, the empty threat of failing driver’s ed if I was sick for any longer helped me recover in a single day.

On my first day out on the new year, I went to Chick-fil-A with Ed Lam for the first time. We were planning on going to Buffalo Wild Wings today with Ben Chow (as I mentioned a few days ago), but he ended up rescheduling because he had “family responsibilities” to which he needed to tend.

Ed and I went into Chick-fil-A and ended up getting take-out because there were so many people eating in, and we pretty much didn’t even have space to eat inside the restaurant.

After getting back to his house, we played a bit of League of Legends, then I left and went to visit my martial arts academy, which I hadn’t been able to do for the past two days because of my illness.

Again, I got a bunch of footage from today that will be in a compilation video coming out in the near future.