So Monday night, the neighbor with whom I share my back wall was having another of her raucous late-weeknight get-togethers--four or five people in total, it sounded like, with music and a lot of loud talking and laughing and--I swear to god it sounded like--occasional running into the wall? I don't know. Thumping ( Read more... )

So last night I emailed my landlord to complain about the electric guitar playing that has started happening most nights in my building--it never seems to start before 9:30, and goes on until at least 11:30, with one memorable weeknight when it continued until 1 am ( Read more... )

I have a cricket ( Read more... )

People are moving into one of the apartments around the back. I had opened up the front windows in preparation for some tidying and taken some residual laundry downstairs (bathmats, backpack). Came back up, WMP was playing "The War of 1812."

I could have just put up a sign.

"Hello neighbors! I'm a commie!"

The garbage truck is coming around despite the fact that it's only Monday and technically Trash Day is Thursday. I guess they're making an exception for Moving Day(s ( Read more... )

So last night I went outside at about 1:15, when I reached prelim studying saturation, to put some junk out on the curb for trash pick-up that I'd forgotten about earlier. The girl from upstairs was sitting on the porch with some guy--if it's her roommate/boyfriend, he's cut off his mohawk, and considering that she's leaving for Japan and I used ( Read more... )

So last night I was just drifting off, or possibly HAD drifted off, when suddenly through my open window came the sound of the Asshats Next Door loudly pontificating on the nature of love.

It's pain, in case you were wondering ( Read more... )

For most of the winter, I've noticed that someone, I assume from apartment #2 since they're the only other unit with a door in the front, has been leaving big bags of recycling on the front porch during the week. Trash and recycling are picked up on Thursday morning; you get in trouble if you put it out before Wednesday. The recycling on the ( Read more... )