22
Jan
Posted in Drama | 1 Comment »
Lots of drama last night. Remember the bed-burner I wrote about just yesterday? Well, she’s at it again. (The above is a not very good picture of my building surrounded by firemen, you know, those dudes with the reflective stuff.)
To recap: I went to the gym yesterday around 7, stayed for yoga until 9, and then came home, showered, and started to make dinner. I smelled something funny when I came in the building, but it was faint, and they’d been working on one of the apartments upstairs, so I figured it was related.
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Tags: apartment living, crackberries, fire, fire safety, firefighters, neighbors, new york city, renters insurance, stop drop and roll
20
Jan
Posted in Cheap Thrills | No Comments »
photo credit: hermitsmoores
Today is a weird day in my building. At 6 in the morning I was woken up by two men screaming at each other. Well, first I was woken up because there was this repeating thudding noise that somewhere in my brain I was trying to decipher—was it a woodcutter chopping wood? Someone slamming a door? It totally incorporated into my dream, in which I was somewhere in SE Asia on a bumpy road, sharing a bus seat with three people and hoping my iPod was on board.
At any rate, the dream dissolved when the one man started yelling at the other guy telling him to stop making the banging noise, which the accused man seemed to have no idea about whatsoever.
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Tags: apartment living, neighbors, new york city, noises in the night, sleeping well, strange dreams, thin walls
