Necessities and My 1st Class at the Fac

Converstation between my host mother and me today; my vague memory translated roughy to English:

Host Mother:  What time will you leave the house tomorrow morning?
Me:  I have a class at the university at 8:30 so probably between 7:30 and 7:45.
HM:  Ok, because there will be construction going on nearby and they're going to cut the water lines at about 8 or so, so we won't be able to use the water.
Me:  But there will be coffee, right?
HM:  Yes, because that will be before 8.
Me: (Smile of relief) That's good.  I'll need it.

Since I don't have a lot of time tonight (I have to get up early, as you now know), I'll comment on  two things:

I just wrote twice as many words for this post as I have done in my paper.

So here I am, Saturday night, melted Cold Stone sitting beside me, being...what's the word? Lame. Not that I'd go out or anything--it's summer in Oxford: staying in and going out are practically the same. But I am working on my final paper for my English class/studying for my Structure of Modern English final.

CORRECTION: I should be working on my final paper for my English class/studying for my Structure of Modern English final. (That was a change from a present progressive transitive verb to a present progressive conditional transitive verb, by the way.)

What does this have to do with Taiwan?