Well, in the past I have often thought about how it would be living in another time or century. Been fascinated by those shows that throw people into an alternate lifestyle/century etc; like Frontier House and Manor House. There was even a Stone Age one. My first thought about these have been A) No indoor plumbing, and B) No hot water for bathing, washing etc. Kind of goes together in my head; indoor plumbing=hot water for bathing.
I will readily admit that I am rather anal about the whole bathing thing. I like being clean, and feeling clean. My world revolves around showering, hence my ordeals with camping.

So for the last 3 days we have in essence, been living in 'Frontier House' as the water heater is busted in our building and no one seems all that up in arms about getting it fixed. I'm beside myself. I mean, the toilet still works and all. I could boil some water and have a sponge bath, but there's nothing like a nice hot shower for getting that squeeky-clean feeling and soothing aching muscles. Not to mention, doing laundry. Ah-hem, running low on undies might I add.

It has been an, shall we say, interesting experience watching my sanity unravel as the days mount on up without any ability to wash throughly. And since the water is f@#*ing freezing, even washing ones hands is an ordeal. Where do you put your hands when they're ice cold anyway?

I guess if lived a life back in Victorian times, or like I like to fantasize about, the Renaissance, then I would have been raised from birth dealing with bathroom issues in a completely different way. No doubt I would be less neurotic and hand-washy. Clean would be relative to what was available to me and my community. And let's face it, if I was living in a third world country and without the priviliges I currently enjoy, my sense of being clean would certainly be relevant to my reality as it stood outside of my current expectations of how things stand for me now.

With all that being said, I am still rather put out by the current circumstances. Not to mention, I need to be cooking tomorrow and being able to wash dishes in hot water that I don't have to boil myself would make things a lot easier.

To sum things up, I'm in a mood.