Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop from my faucets

This morning started out normally enough. My roommate went to class, I got up and took a shower, checked email, etc. This was at eight.

By nine, there was no water in the bathroom. I emailed maintenance, only to get a reply back that it was a campus wide problem and there was no water anywhere.

Well.

Do you know how it feels to know you can't use the bathroom (well, you can, but it's gross because no one can flush)? It makes you feel like you are incredibly thirsty, yet you don't want to drink. The school freaking brought in port-a-potties for us, but I still didn't chance having to use the bathroom. I'm sorry, my ass is not lining up to use a port-a-potty along with everyone else in my dorm.

There were emails saying the water should be back on by two. At two-thirty, I walked into the bathroom to check the sinks. As I passed by the toilet, it suddenly flushed itself. "I'm magical!" I thought to myself.

Maintenance crews were running around like chickens with their heads cut off checking out everyone's toilet. Our toilet wouldn't stop running until we had a guy fix it for us. But thank God, everything now seems to be business as usual.

And a note to self: I need to buy hand sanitizer, because going without washing my hands for hours was gross.