announcement! (etc)

okay so first the announcement: yesterday, friday 23 oct, maura moved to and then seconded a motion to add joeblog to the list of friends’ art and blogs, located conveniently to the left of this post. the motion passed. enjoy.

okay, now for the etc: este and i did awesome halloween things! check it:

BEFORE

AFTER

and lastly, our apartment’s falling apart! no, not really, but it’s kind of scary. okay long story short: they started doing renovations on the apartment above ours a couple of weeks ago. the landlord called este to tell him this, and to say that should we find any cracks in the ceiling or anything during this process, to call them immediately. well, no cracks yet, but this happened yesterday:

yes, normally that is attached to the ceiling a little better. there are also a couple of spots (in the bathroom, este’s desk…) where there are heavy sprinklings of, well, ceiling.

nothing really terrible’s happened yet, though. we called the maintenance people yesterday but because of shabbat the only thing available to us was the emergency line. i tried calling that – and i know this isn’t technically an emergency, but i KNOW that if part of the ceiling falls over the weekend and we hadn’t called to tell them what was going on, they’d flip out and not pay for damages or fix anything or whatever – and they said that this technically isn’t an emergency and that they’d call me back. still waiting on that.

so i’m not really worried because we survived the night and i’d say that’s a good sign, but i am kind of annoyed, since i was being very polite and calm in explaining that i know this isn’t like the apartment’s on fire or anything, but i wanted to get something on record as saying that we had, in fact, notice some slight changes to the apartment since the construction upstairs started, but the three different people i talked to (always fun) kept interrupting and not really listening to what i was saying. it’s times like that that provide me with absolutely no faith whatsoever that anything will get resolved, since you can’t really solve a problem if you don’t understand what’s happening, right?

okay and while we’re on the complaining track… sorry i’ve been a bad little poster recently. este is downloading eight (8) seasons of the simpsons right now and it’s making our internet wicked slow and me pretty damn cranky when i use the computer. so. there’s that. read joeblog!