Minor flooding

[onefixedstar]

I woke up this morning to discover that our dining room window leaks. Combined with the remnants of the hurricane, that left us with a mini-flood. Fortunately, just around the time we ran out of dry towels, the rain stopped, thus ensuring that we won't be faced with massive water damage less than a month after moving in here.

I tried out my oven a couple of weeks ago and couldn't get it to work. Working under the assumption that the problem might well lie with me rather than the oven (and flashing back to that incident last December when I popped a frozen lasagna into the oven and then lay down for a nap, not noticing until forty minutes later that I'd forgotten to turn the second dial on the oven, thus leaving me with a partially-thawed mess of pasta and tomato sauce rather than the steaming hot lasagna that I was supposed to take to a dinner party), I decided to wait until my roommate returned before putting in a maintenance order. Last night I got him to try it. He couldn't figure it out either, so down went the maintenance request. They said they might fix it this afternoon, and I'm hoping they do because I'd really like roast chicken tonight and I just don't think the toaster oven's going to cut it.

Now I have to brave the winds and go buy up my course readings so that I can write a response paper for next week.

Comments

[steninja.livejournal.com]

good luck with the oven!! :)

[onefixedstar.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The oven actually was fixed this afternoon, or rather, they claimed that there had been nothing wrong with it. Apparently we just needed to move the little timer dials to the right place. I should add that both Jaron and I spent quite a while fiddling with those dials with no success. I'm now afraid to touch them because I know that if I do, the oven will once again cease to function. But I got my chicken tonight!

[steninja.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you got your chicken!

Did they fix the windows? lol I can't believe you had a leak!

[onefixedstar.livejournal.com]

They said we should put in a work order for the window. Apparently they can't do anything without one. But they're already planning to bring someone in to look at the windows in the apartment below us, so if we put in the order, they'll come to our apartment too.

[semiotic-trader.livejournal.com]

Mmm...bureaucratolicious...