Views & News: the sky is actually falling edition

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

1. Last night there was a massive leak in the boys' bedroom and I had every bucket, trash bin, baking sheet, and towel out. We called the emergency maintenance twice and got an AI voice telling us that it sounded like something that could be dealt with during business hour. Fuck you, you miserable pieces of shit.

So the drip-drip-drip all night drove me insane.

We even banged on the door upstairs but she wouldn't open the door!

I put the boys in my bed and I slept on the floor for about 2 hours. Then around 430, I got up, meditated, made the boys' lunches and packed a bag and went to the car. And slept for about an hour.

The ceiling crashed in about 7 am as the boys were getting ready for school. It's a mess. It's a complete and utter shite fest.

Then I fled and let the boys' father handle the maintenance and building management.


Maybe I'm a coward but it felt like 2016 the day after election day when the building management (different apartment) had decided the day before to cut ALL THE TREES, every single one, and I had non-stop chainsaws while the fascists took power for the first time and a completely devastated landscape when I stepped out of the door. And I started cutting again after years of not cutting.

I really want to cut but I threw away my stuff and I am trying really hard not to buy new stuff TODAY. I want to, it's just so overwhelming and that kind of sensory trigger (drip-drip-drip-sploosh where no one is going to come and help and there's nothing you can do but take it and it's so wrong and people are so callously carelessly cruel and nowhere is safe) but I am trying not to.



We had put in maintenance requests about the leak but of course they ignored them.

I am getting sleepy so I may go back to the car and take a nap. I suppose I could take a nap in the library but...I feel like getting in the car and going to a hotel and starting fresh with a new name and a new identity.

2. The job hasn't called me back, but I think I submitted all the paperwork.

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Comments

[falkner]

That's such a shit situation and completely out of your control, I can't imagine how frustrating it must feel to have to go through it.


[squeezes you]

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! I thought of you today when I watched the Jin lie detector test and he said he missed JK the most.

[falkner]

♥♥♥

They've finally been reunited now, I hope they celebrated properly.

On that topic: only Yoongi left!!

[regshoe]

Oh my goodness, that's a horribly stressful thing to have to deal with. I'm so sorry <3 (and I hope maintenance/building management are helpful enough to get it resolved reasonably quickly!)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

They did clean up the rubble and tape a plastic sheet to the hole. I've run to an extended stay motel for a couple of days to get some rest. I don't know. It's all kind of a muddle and I don't have much faith that it is actually fixed.

[regshoe]

*hugs* and good wishes to all of you!

[dine]

that's so awful - hopefully maintenance will deal with the mess promptly, though so far it doesn't look like damage is a real concern

I'm sorry you had such a terrible night - here's hoping there's some progress soon, so you can resume sleeping in your own bed

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I have fled to an extended stay motel for a couple of nights. I have no faith in maintenance in actually fixing it but they did clean the rubble and tape a plastic sheet over the hole. The boys' father took everything out of the room except the bunk beds which can't fit though the door frame unassembled. I don't know. Let's hope I get back to my bed one day. :/

[kitarella_imagines]

OMG thank goodness the ceiling didn't fall in on you and your family. Please take care and I hope they can fix it as soon as possible. I'm not sure what to say but sending you lots of love 💗

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!! Yes, that is a good thing.

[spiralicious]

That's so completely fucked. I am so sorry. No one needs that extra stress. At least it didn't actually fall in on anyone. Hopefully, it will get taken care of. Please get some sleep where/however you can. *Hugs* sending love.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, it is. I hope it will be fixed. We have 9 months more on this lease. I am in an extended stay motel but the boys and their father are still at home. I don't know. It's weird.

[scifirenegade]

That is complete and utter shite *hugs*

Hopefully no one got hurt. Wishing maintenance does something and does it quick.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

Yes, so do I!!