I Am Thinking About It

So they’re painting our building, and Sarah is visiting with her puppy, Shay, and we just walked downstairs to go out for a walk. As I exited the downstairs door I held it open for Sarah with my right hand and… slid across the door like I was holding fingerpaints. they forgot to put up a wet paint sign. Awesome.

OMG I Am So Confused. T just wasted 15 minutes of her life trying to explain to me why time and distance cancel each other out when you are a black hole.

I feel so dumb right now.

If this is all they accomplished on day one, I have serious doubts about this being a 4 day project. They didn't even finish taking the sides off of our unit.

Just saying.

Update: Ammended length of project is through May 9th. Damn them, my seed babies need fresh air!

I have a serious fruit fly problem. How on earth did I ever think they were cute in high school biology??

Taken this evening.

My Sad Tale Ends Here
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Caught one. Woke up this morning to find one dead rodent on the patio outside the door.

I’m sorry, little rat, that your poor nose had to get smooshed in the trap in order that my parsley and spinach might live. Next lifetime, try eating something a little closer to the ground, I don’t think those ground dwellers mind as much.

okay that's it, I am done with the patient tenant routine!!!!

A note today from my apartment manager, in response to my email on Saturday informing him that the apartment is STILL leaking:

We have now placed an emergency leak repair service call to a local professional vendor. Their typical response time is 24 hours or less. The problem has migrated to the unit below you, so we will get to the bottom of this immediately, no matter the cost.

Thanks (again and again) for your wonderful patience throughout this ordeal. Just think, when we’re all done with this, you just might have the most water-tight apartment in Seattle!

OH, how badly I wanted to write back:

…and just think, if you’d taken me seriously four weeks ago, this wouldn’t be an expensive emergency!

AND BY THE WAY MY CARPET IS STILL WET!

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UPDATE: 4/4/07 AND THEN THERE WERE THREE…

I finally dropped a note on Monday for my neighbors, who share the moldy wall with me. I had told the maintanence guy he should do it but he obviously ignored me, because their response email today said they discovered black mold all over the wall behind their bed.

This is getting ridiculous.

For the Love of All Things Holy
Originally uploaded by Arboreality.

I came home to more leaking. Soaking wet carpet, too. AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

It’s lovely outside, but inside it’s… MOLDY.

So a few months ago they were working on the roof, and I knew this because the workers swept all their trash over the side onto my plants on the patio, and also thumped so hard I came home one day to a broken light fixture in the closet.

Turns out they forgot to clean the drain, so the flat roof filled up with water and leaked into my bedroom last week… it gets worse the further from the original leak we get: it was streaming in my window, but it appears to have also made it’s way into the walls, and now I’m living in a mold infested toxic waste site. It’s AWESOME, thanks for asking.