gah
My sister was visiting me this weekend, which was lovely... except that now she's gone and I have to face the real world again (grocery shopping, cleaning the apartment, etc.,) and I don't wanna.
She did leave me with Season 5 of Buffy to enjoy, so that's nice. I've seen it before, but I've seen most of it only once, and that season contains some of my favorite episodes.
While she was here, we did lots of hanging out, watching TV, and playing video games. We also went to the zoo. It rained on us a lot while we were at the zoo, but the animals were being reasonably active while we were there, so we tried to ignore the rain as much as possible.
Irritatingly, as she was leaving, my door broke. (My apartment has two doors -- the "front door" leads to the hallway and out the main entrance to my building. The "back door" leads to the outside world and faces the parking lot. This is the door I ALWAYS use, and this is the one that broke.) Luckily, due to the fact that I have two doors, I can still get out of my apartment, but I'm kind of irritated that I have to use the other door. (It really is MUCH less convenient. The fact that I have my own external door is part of what I like about my apartment, and was actually one of the deciding factors in my decision to stay.)
I unscrewed the handle to see if it was a quick fix that I could do myself, but it doesn't appear to be. A piece inside the handle had snapped off, such that when I turn the handle, it doesn't engage the thing that then actually opens the door. So I screwed the handle back on, and called the front desk. I have no idea when they'll get a chance to fix this. (Probably not today, as there's about zero chance they have anyone in on Sundays, and since I still have another door it's not technically an emergency.) This means that I'll probably have to shut Endora into the bedroom on whatever day they do end up actually coming, as I imagine that fixing this may involve the door standing open for several minutes at a time, and I'd prefer she not have a chance to escape.
Part of me wishes that I didn't have the other door, so that this could be an actual EMERGENCY and I could force someone to fix it right away. Really, though, I recognize that it's better not to be trapped in my apartment. It's just feeling like another of those "real world" things that I'd prefer not to have to deal with at the moment...
She did leave me with Season 5 of Buffy to enjoy, so that's nice. I've seen it before, but I've seen most of it only once, and that season contains some of my favorite episodes.
While she was here, we did lots of hanging out, watching TV, and playing video games. We also went to the zoo. It rained on us a lot while we were at the zoo, but the animals were being reasonably active while we were there, so we tried to ignore the rain as much as possible.
Irritatingly, as she was leaving, my door broke. (My apartment has two doors -- the "front door" leads to the hallway and out the main entrance to my building. The "back door" leads to the outside world and faces the parking lot. This is the door I ALWAYS use, and this is the one that broke.) Luckily, due to the fact that I have two doors, I can still get out of my apartment, but I'm kind of irritated that I have to use the other door. (It really is MUCH less convenient. The fact that I have my own external door is part of what I like about my apartment, and was actually one of the deciding factors in my decision to stay.)
I unscrewed the handle to see if it was a quick fix that I could do myself, but it doesn't appear to be. A piece inside the handle had snapped off, such that when I turn the handle, it doesn't engage the thing that then actually opens the door. So I screwed the handle back on, and called the front desk. I have no idea when they'll get a chance to fix this. (Probably not today, as there's about zero chance they have anyone in on Sundays, and since I still have another door it's not technically an emergency.) This means that I'll probably have to shut Endora into the bedroom on whatever day they do end up actually coming, as I imagine that fixing this may involve the door standing open for several minutes at a time, and I'd prefer she not have a chance to escape.
Part of me wishes that I didn't have the other door, so that this could be an actual EMERGENCY and I could force someone to fix it right away. Really, though, I recognize that it's better not to be trapped in my apartment. It's just feeling like another of those "real world" things that I'd prefer not to have to deal with at the moment...