Do you ever just feel like something out there is conspiring against you? I finally got to work today and had the surge of energy and confidence I’ve desperately needed to complete this revision, and was working away…when the ceiling of my office fell. Yeah. With a reaallllly loud crash and almost on my head. There’s water, plaster, live loose wires. Basically the roof has a leak, and my light fixtures had been slowly filling with water—the weight of which pulled it all down. This is how focused and determined I am right now: after the requisite swearing, and then going downstairs to say, “Um, my ceiling just collapsed,” I picked up my laptop and coffee and moved into an empty office across the hall to keep working. But now I was just told they may replace the whole ceiling, which would boot me out of here for two weeks just when I most need my working space. Heavy sigh. At least the collapse missed my person and my computer equipment by about a foot. Still.
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I feel your pain. Our first apartment many moons ago had the ceiling collapse almost on our computer but most certainly in the middle of our living room. Major pain. Didn’t help that a month or so later our kitchen floor collapsed.
That’s when we looked for a new apartment.
This reminds me of a time in grad school when the ceiling above our shower began to look a little moist. We called building maintenance and nobody came. We filled out a form, still no one. Then one day I came home to find the ceiling in the bathtub and big old hole where the moistness used to be. That’s when I called building maintenance back and said, “now my ceiling is in the bathtub, come fix it NOW.” They didn’t get it until someone finally came up and saw for themselves. So frustrating! My roommate took pictures, though…just in case.
It took them a good 4 days to fix it too. SO infuriating. Good thing we had friends in the building who let us use their showers before going to work or class.