In case you’re all worried, I’m alive and kicking. I’m in the midst of two things right now.
1. My bathroom ceilings in my Atlanta place have water damage and mold. The leak is coming from somewhere in the building and hasn’t been found. So far, the condo management contact person has done next to nothing to remedy the problem – so I go from being in a rage and sending out massive emails with repair demands to being so stressed out, l I disassociate and go to bed. This doesn’t happen all the time, but hey, it is a part of my reality. I’ve also had to postpone my flight back to London and had to purchase/pay for a new airline ticket. Management sitting on their laurels is costing me a truck load of money. If they haven’t found the source of the leaks into my ceilings by my new departure date, I don’t really know what to do. If anyone has dealt with this type of problem and can advise, please do. Thanks.
2. I am 155 pages behind on my novel edits. *toothy, ferocious snarl* When I’m not doing drama about those damn moldy ceilings, I’m reading and re-writing. Can you believe that I’m 155 pages behind? I can’t and it’s somebody else’s fault. *shakes fist at the air*
I was trying to catch up on all the TV shows I hadn’t seen since living in London – while my house rotted and my work went undone. Since the switch from digital to analog TV, my rabbit ears and I been cut out of the media loop. Innocent rabbit ears have been discriminated against. *sniffle* This has forced me to focus my noggin on something else, like editing. 
Anyhoo, I’m glad to be getting back on track. Until I get 155 pages done of re-phrasing, adding words in, taking words out, washing my thumbs,etc – I will be on a blogging hiatus. Wish me luck. Cheers.
SteadyCat
June 15, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Mold can be a health hazard so threaten to call the Health Department and if necessary do it. Also threaten to go to the hospital and have test done and tell them they will get the bill. The longer they wait to fix the problem the worst it will get and the more expensive it will be to repair. You are not causing the problem but you are being inconvenienced and while there you risk getting sick. Take care and much success with getting caught up.
Hi Salty. Thanks. x
June 17, 2009 at 2:13 am
Been missing you…
What’s happening with the leak sucks! I hope your 155 pages don’t get wet
@Alix – You just made me laugh.
xx
June 17, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Hi Steady,
My advice on the roof and building management; threaten to sue! It seems that these days the only way to get the attention of business is to sue them.
Otherwise glad to hear from you. I hope you get a chance to enjoy Atlanta while you’re there. I kinda wish I was in Atlanta since I hear it’s the new Capitol of Black lesbian America. I wonder what the old Capitol was? Lol
Hi, Monie. *waves* I’m going to call today but I am really drained with this issue. I might just leave everything to rot and deal with it when I get back next year (after I’ve gotten back on schedule). *sniffles*
I am enjoying Atlanta even though I’m dealing with thangs. The air, the grass, the trees and the people are beautiful.
I can’t keep up with all the beauty. *puts on sunglasses and watches beauty* I think the old Capitol was Atlanta as well.
June 18, 2009 at 12:55 am
Wow, yeah, this is no joke, especially if it’s black mold! When I say the word “mold’ up there with “Atlanta”, it was all I could do to even keep reading. Although I have no allergies, I was literally nearly KILLED by black mold during my stint in Atlanta last year.
Aside from getting the fuck OUT, and wearing a respirator when you need to be in there, I have no advice, as I not only had no satisfaction with my s situation, no matter how much kicking, screaming, and threatening I did, and even that slowed down, as I weakened, continuously — it was really scary.
Not only that, but I didn’t learn a damn thing, cuz I’m planing to stay in that same place when I return in a couple of weeks. I wanna be there for an open mic on July 1st, and if you’re still there, you better appear! You have my email, right?
Good luck, sweets, which I had more to tell you.
(Sorry about any typos, as your page still does that thing where I can only view the words in the middle of the page, not on the sides.)
Yep, black mold in my bathroom. *holds achy head*
I don’t think I’ll still be here but as you can see, my plans keep changing. if I’m here, I will certainly show up and we can meet and greet, take photos and everythang. I do have your email.
June 22, 2009 at 4:40 pm
hang on in there steadycat
at least it wasn’t the beavers again!
Why me? *shakes fist at the sky* I’m in the city so beavers aren’t interested in flooding concrete and heavy traffic.
ahem…moi, how do you know about the beavers? *shivers from the memory*
June 23, 2009 at 9:58 am
‘cos you told me, innit.
*big grin*.
I was shocked at the size of american beavers as they are quite petite in the uk.
hurry back home, there’s a few good films coming up at the roxy, including an early august screening of ‘the best of ottfilms’. ‘ahem’.
aha, will do. I’m looking forward to watching the films…and painting.
July 14, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Steadycat! come home. now. pls thx bye
erm……and who are you? messages like this should at least have a hint.
July 7, 2009 at 11:29 am
Hello,
Have been on a hiatus myself and have totally missed this: did you move back to the US?
xK
Nope. I went home to attend graduations. I had one nephew graduate from college and one from high school. I got stuck here for many weeks more because my condo (two bathrooms have ceilings that are now ruined from water damage. I have had a time trying to get the leaks investigated and the other condo owners to repair their bathrooms- which are causing the damage.
August 29, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Monie is spot on, if you threaten to sue anyone, ever, they get instantly scared and dedicate too much time into thinking about wether or not they can beat you… so either way, you stuff up their life for a bit of time hehe
September 3, 2009 at 10:30 am
David, someone other than me me needed to be stuffed. That’s for sure.