My elevator hates me

I am probably frustrated at way more things than I really should be. I guess I will start things off with my stupid elevator.

I don't know what I did to piss off the elevator, but it really hates me. Almost every time I go to use it, it automatically jumps into action and starts going up or down literally half a second before I hit the button. The first few times I was ok with it because there are four elevators in my building so there was always another one a couple floors away that would show up in a matter of seconds.

Not the case anymore. Now, even if there is another elevator on, say the 7th floor (I live on the 6th), it stays put while the one on the 21st floor begins the slow process of descending 15 floors to pick me up. I thought I had figured out a way around waiting for the one coming from the top floor by queuing the up button as well, which oddly enough sends the elevator that was on the 7th floor down to pick me up.

Apparently that practice is unacceptable to the elevator gods. When the 7th floor elevator arrives, I enter and press the ground floor button so I can go on my merry way, but for some reason the computer system gets confused once the door closes and continues to open and close until I get out...only to find that the one coming from the 21st floor arrived during the 7th floor elevator debacle and has now decided that I will not be riding and has begun to return to the 21st floor.

Why don't I just give up on the elevators and take the stairs you may ask? Because the geniuses that run the apartment building decided to lock all of the stairwell entrances from the inside with padlocks... That detail helps me sleep at night because I know if there is a fire in my building, I will essentially burn to death because I can't take the stairs and the elevators don't like to pick me up.

I've been mulling that one over in my head for a few days now. I really don't mind waiting for the elevator for a few extra seconds, I just think its just a funny representation of things not working out as planned. I saw my first sandstorm today. I've lived in Qatar for about 4 months now and this was my first experience with one and to be honest it was not impressive. It basically looks like fog, just instead of moisture in the air the is sand. I'm pretty sure I inhaled about 4 pounds of sand today. Definitely not good for the lungs.

UNC/Duke coming up in about 8 hours! Go Heels!