Getting used to dorm life again, without the indie movie posters, christmas lights, or stashed booze. First thing that I miss from normal life. Privacy: not necessarily while using the bathroom, but more so while doing other things in the bathroom. Like flossing your teeth. In a barracks, you floss your teeth and hear guttural noises from the bathroom stalls,then count the seconds like you're waiting for thunder after lightning. The foul smelling thunder rolls in and scrambles with the minty-fresh taste of floss between your teeth and you wish you were back home for a few seconds where you could just floss and maybe hear the TV through the wall. Small thing, but one of many.
This is fairly sustainable living to be sure. I've never carpooled so much or consumed so little in my adult life. There are no readily available stores and we have to get everywhere by bus or humvee. One hundred people share a heating system that would probably satisfy the needs of only 4 or 5 people in society at large. Our planet would have a much healthier future if people everywhere lived like this. But how could you make them want to?
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