now, with more details!

[rm]

So I'm lying in bed this morning, trying to wake up. Patty is sound asleep (it's not that I'm a morning person, it's that I'm a conquer the world on as little sleep as possible person -- I was like that as a kid, and when my Baz Luhrmann obsession kicked in a few years ago, I did a whole summer of only sleeping four hours a night, and my body clock never entirely recovered once I realized I was crazy).

I hear a sound. A little tick tick tick.

Is there a cat in the bedroom?

Is it a mouse?

I lean over the side of the bed to look around.

Nothing.

I twist back onto the bed, and lo, there is water dripping on my foot.

I look up.

There's a great giant plaster bubble in the middle of our ceiling staring at me like the maw of hell.

"Patty, get up, get dressed now, there's a leak."

Which then turned into several hours of rusty water, frantic phone calls, a casserole dish and a scissors, radiator repair on the empty apartment above us, emotional freakout and an episode of hypochondria (all me, Patty is pretty sane) and the sudden emergence of a very nice property manager who arranged for all the damage from this leak and the last to be repaired on Monday.

I'm tired, Patty's headed back to Ohio, and I've done no holiday shopping.

How the bloody hell are you?

Comments

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, that used to happen in my old apartment all the time. It was an on and off problem for years, but they did finally fix it and it stopped being an issue the last couple of years I lived there.

Good luck.

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Oh, and totally sympathizing with the difficulties of moving in NYC. People in other cities just. don't. get it.

[tlatzomia.livejournal.com]

Eesh. Considerably better than that, I have to say. :-\

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

So is a plastic tarp standard equipment for NYC apt dwellers?? Wow. Glad it sounds like it's resolved now. Do you have more than one apartment above you or is it recently vacated?

[rm.livejournal.com]

recently vacated. And I think in a fly by night sort of way that the management company didn't know about until we reported the first leak!

[marcmagus]

Better than you, apparently. The majority of my major housing woes have finally been resolved over the last couple of months (and I think I heard them fixing the leak letting the rain--soon to be snow--into the bedroom of that poor girl upstairs last week. Yes, from what I hear, there was not so much a leak in the roof as a gaping hole exposing her to the elements.)

I'm glad to hear they're repairing everything in a semi-prompt manner, at least.

[jesse_the_k]

My aqueous ceiling tumors (caused by ice dams) were simultaneously horrifying and beautiful. And mostly impressed me with the high tensile strength of latex paint.

You have my sympathies!

[don-negro.livejournal.com]

Doing pretty well, actually, apart from the fact that I seem to be allergic to Northern California. I've got personal work, contract work from friends, and original art to give my sister and brother-in-law for Christmas. Life is pretty damned good at the moment.

[eac.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about the leak (moving in San Francisco isn't quite as difficult, but it's not easy, either) and the accompanying stress.

I'm also feeling pressed about holiday shopping -- I've done some, but nothing's good enough. I spent today getting stuck in pointless downtown DC traffic. After a decade, I can't remember which intersections I'm supposed to avoid (or I let my DC native husband argue me into driving through them anyway, rather than taking transit), and all my street level landmarks are gone. Also, the manners of DC drivers in city congestion make me crazy. Bah!

At least it feels like holidays here on the east coast, though. :)

[tlatzomia.livejournal.com]

Welcome to DC? :-\ Wish I could help you with the intersections. I refuse to drive in DC and my husband won't do it when there's much traffic. Transit ftw.

[eac.livejournal.com]

Hee. I'm FROM here, but that only makes it more annoying. :)

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

The strange people above you are gone? oh man. I shall never know their true story, or exactly what all those sounds were.

Leaks are horrid.

[rm.livejournal.com]

They are also an early childhood trauma for me, so this has been totally trying for my brain.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I have a vague memory of you talking about a flood, but I can't remember the context now. Hrm. But yeah, things like that as a kid are the scariest things ever. I feel this way about spiders because of the tarantulas at my great-grandmother's.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Radiator pipes froze in my parents apartment when I was about 5 or 6. The building management, like idiots, applied blow torches to them to thaw them, and they burst and sent boiling water about a foot deep over the entire apartment and ruined all of my mother's paintings (that she had done -- not bought) and they had to axe open a bunch of our furniture to try to get the contents out.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I remember now! It's weird, I couldn't remember what started it but I had a weird mental image of the apartment full of water.

[arcanetrivia]

Some water deity must have it in for you, given the number of times you've written about leaks in your apartment.

not bad but getting down on supplies and options are falling away

[newwaytowrite.livejournal.com]

We have been dealing with very unusual amounts of snow and currently unable to get out of the house except on foot. We live in a settlement so the snow plow or is it plough won't get to us for ages. We need to get groceries and some last trinkets for stockings before Christmas. We hope to get out and do that Saturday but we also are suffering from a cold snap (not that cold really but for this rain forest it is) so the occasional wet snow dump is not getting into its disappearing act via rain as per usual. And more white stuff is in the forecast come Saturday and again around the 25th.


We will see how it goes. Thankfully we still have power.

[herself_nyc]

Oy oy oy. I empathize. I'm glad you unearthed that property manager.

[magicwoman.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain - we've had the plumber (actually two of them) in fixing the kitchen sink and tub this week - Monday, Tuesday, and today. I think they're done.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. Ugh.

I spent today mostly asleep, interrupted by a call to discuss details of my husband's and my wills.

[miep.livejournal.com]

ugh. how awful, on top of the other leak especially.

we're hanging in there, learning to live with less sleep. I ventured out for an hour today and returned totally and completely wiped out.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I have not died of this horrible cold, I have a popsicle for my swollen throat, and I have a wonderful partner.

I am still, just barely, ahead of you on traumatic leak points. For your (and Patty's) sake I hope I stay there.

Don't let anyone make you feel that this is not traumatizing as hell, by the way. The sound of water dripping onto carpet still makes me twitch and whimper, and a plaster bubble would equate to full-blown hysterics once I'd dealt with the worst of it (and only through sheer willpower and good drugs would I not have hysterics first).

Wishing you dryness and security and safety and a flat ceiling and nothing that drips, and hoping the new building manager will help achieve that.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry you guys have to deal with this crap.

Let's hear it for December 2008!

[cookie-cm.livejournal.com]

Years ago, back in Clevland on a slow wake-up Sunday with my partner asleep, I heard weird sounds - like crumbs hitting the floor? I snapped out of my fog and focused my eyes to see a crack in the ceiling smack above our bed with dust flowing from said crack. I pushed her & I off the bed just in time as a 3'x3' chunck of ceiling fell right on our bed.

Hope it gets better.

[natf.livejournal.com]

Me? Running a fever and aches - cold or mild flu.

*more hugs*

P.S. I am nigh on nocturnal when left to my own devices and preference. My doctors and I think that I may have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome. I have always slept better during the day and been able to think and achieve better at night. There is some theory about hunters and gatherers - gatherers gather better during the day when they can see what they are collecting and hunters hunt at night when the animals are asleep and do not see them coming (or something like that). I think that I am descended from hunters.