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Sep. 20th, 2004 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cabbitzillaI now have a pair of 3/4 assembled bookcases. Why not fully assembled? Why, it's because I'm a fisking nitwit and left here without the hammer. *pounds head on desk*
Filed a maintenance request for the non-functional garbage disposal on my way into the complex. I'd gone on into the apartment, started a load of laundry, retrieved a Cherry Coke and a couple of rice cakes (hell of a breakfast, but it's what was there), and settled in to try and assemble the first unit. I hadn't even gotten the box open when the lady doing service calls showed up to fix the disposal. Fifteen minutes of fighting with it later, she declared it completely deceased and told me she'd have to go get a replacement. I figured she'd be back tomorrow, but she returned less than an hour later with a new in-box unit which she had installed in another fifteen minute session.
It was when she returned that I noted the inverted rainbow triangle on her belt buckle. And remembered that the leasing office manager had had the same triangle on her bumper. As those two things clicked, some of the tension I've been dealing with flowed away. More still was removed when I lugged the shredded cardboard and styrofoam packing out to the dumpster, and noted three other cars just in our court with alt-life emblems on them. I popped the trunk on the Saturn and sat down for a smoke, and ended up in conversation with a pair of ladies from the next building over; when they'd pulled in beside me, I smiled... then let my attention drift away again as they began what was apparently a cuddling session in the car. Apparently they were curious when I didn't stare at them; a normal habit of theirs seems to be playing 'freak the straights', and all they got out of me was a smile and nod. Lovely ladies. And now I know where the alt-friendly Payless Shoes is. :)
Anyway, I'm drop-dead exhausted. 'm gonna go .. do something or other. Maybe a nap. That sounds such a lovely thought...
Filed a maintenance request for the non-functional garbage disposal on my way into the complex. I'd gone on into the apartment, started a load of laundry, retrieved a Cherry Coke and a couple of rice cakes (hell of a breakfast, but it's what was there), and settled in to try and assemble the first unit. I hadn't even gotten the box open when the lady doing service calls showed up to fix the disposal. Fifteen minutes of fighting with it later, she declared it completely deceased and told me she'd have to go get a replacement. I figured she'd be back tomorrow, but she returned less than an hour later with a new in-box unit which she had installed in another fifteen minute session.
It was when she returned that I noted the inverted rainbow triangle on her belt buckle. And remembered that the leasing office manager had had the same triangle on her bumper. As those two things clicked, some of the tension I've been dealing with flowed away. More still was removed when I lugged the shredded cardboard and styrofoam packing out to the dumpster, and noted three other cars just in our court with alt-life emblems on them. I popped the trunk on the Saturn and sat down for a smoke, and ended up in conversation with a pair of ladies from the next building over; when they'd pulled in beside me, I smiled... then let my attention drift away again as they began what was apparently a cuddling session in the car. Apparently they were curious when I didn't stare at them; a normal habit of theirs seems to be playing 'freak the straights', and all they got out of me was a smile and nod. Lovely ladies. And now I know where the alt-friendly Payless Shoes is. :)
Anyway, I'm drop-dead exhausted. 'm gonna go .. do something or other. Maybe a nap. That sounds such a lovely thought...
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*hug*
Date: 2004-09-21 09:48 am (UTC)Awesome!
Date: 2004-09-21 11:28 am (UTC)I'm glad things are looking up for you. :)
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Date: 2004-09-21 02:04 pm (UTC)