Reason For My Absence

sorry for my absence the past few days, the internet has been down in my apartment, so i haven’t really had the ability to post.

why was the internet down, you ask?

well, it began the other evening (actually it was early thurs. morning - about 1am), when my brother knocked on my bedroom door and said pretty much the last thing you want to hear at 1 in the morning as you’re half-asleep, “help, it’s raining in my bedroom.”

I got out of bed and went to my brother’s room where, it was in fact, raining. There were at least 5 seperate steady streams of water cascading from his ceiling. We began to madly dash around the apartment, trying to get stuff out of his room, as well as collect buckets and pans and what not to put down on the floor.

at one point I ran back into my room to grab my garage can, only to hear a suspicious sound coming from my bedroom closet, which upon investigation revealed that it was now raining in my closet too.

we called the maintenance people and they sent over someone to help clean up the mess. his name was pedro, and he had a t-shirt on that marked the celebration of national pass gas day, which apparently (according to the t-shirt) occurred on April 30, 1999.

at first I thought that national pass gas day was exactly as it suggests, a day for everyone to pass gas (something which presumably hundreds of thousands of people participated in, even if unknowingly). However, after further review, I found out that it was actually a day in which a boycott of gas was held to lower gas prices in the United States and Canada (this apparently worked - or so the internet tells me, and also t-shirts were made - as pedro’s wardrobe demonstrates, and the fact that Pedro is so politically active is, in retrospect, perhaps even funnier than if his t-shirt was only commemorating a day of widespread gastrointestinal activity).

Pedro was a nice guy, and he helped clean our carpets. Unfortunately, the cleaning process lasted until around 5 am, so I’ve been existing in a zombie like state for the last two days, as the post flood clean up and assessment process continues.

The worst part is the fact that, the carpet still smells pretty disgusting, and so fans have been blowing, windows are open, and my apartment is really quite cold. here is a picture of what the water looked like, when collected in a bucket — perhaps you can imagine why my apartment smells.

anyways, since most of the water damage occurred in my brother’s room, we had moved his computer and all other electronic devices (including the modem) out into the living room - hence the internet issues. but, now things are back in place, and mostly back to normal around here (again save for the smell - though we have some of those plug in oil scented things that are working on full blast and doing a pretty good job of things, so hopefully that should all be fixed soon)

so, barring any other unforseen disasters, my internet access/posting ability should be back to a regular schedule in the coming week. I’m sure you are all thrilled. Hopefully this absence didn’t disrupt anyone’s life too much…in the future I suppose I could always go to Starbucks or something to access the internet, I know how much everyone looks forward to my blog posts, I’ll try not to let you down again.