{"id":220,"date":"2008-12-30T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/12\/random-complaints.html"},"modified":"2008-12-30T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T04:05:00","slug":"random-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/12\/random-complaints.html","title":{"rendered":"Random Complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a smoke detector somewhere in the building that&#8217;s been chirping its need of new batteries for the last few days. I finally called the office today to report it (I can&#8217;t believe the people downstairs didn&#8217;t do this already, seeing as it sounds like it&#8217;s coming from the second floor), but I didn&#8217;t call until after the office closed for the day, so it&#8217;s still chirping. Driving me nuts.<\/p>\n<p>The light in the front stairwell has been burnt out for weeks. I reported that too. I guess the people who used to report such things have all moved out. Either that or Mr. Fonts &amp; Colors has grown more lax about checking the state of the apartments under his care.<\/p>\n<p>The day after tomorrow will mark the 1-year anniversary of the day I got sick with whatever it is has kept me in varying degrees of crumminess all year. One. Year. That&#8217;s a very long time. I&#8217;ve hated this year. I&#8217;m ready for a new one. Luckily for me, a new one is on its way, but I&#8217;m putting it on notice from the get-go: it had BETTER be better than this year has been. I&#8217;m in no mood to put up with another year of crumminess.<\/p>\n<p>The weather should also start handing out a little more sunlight. Waking up in the dark, leaving work in the dark, and having the few day-light hours spread horizon to horizon with thick grey clouds is ok for a while, but I need a break.<\/p>\n<p>The house is dirty. Nobody seems to be cleaning it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I slipped and fell on the ice in the apartment parking lot today. One minute I was walking along thinking how dangerous it was to have new snow over several inches of slick ice, the next minute I was on the ground with my legs twisted and my bags scattered in the snow. Now I have a massive bruise on my right hip, a twisted shoulder, and a swollen right wrist. Oh, and a whole lot of grumpiness towards the apartment manager for not sanding or salting or even plowing very much. I told him as much when I called this evening.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m turning 30 next week. This is freaking me out a little. I had big plans for my 20s, and very few of those plans panned out. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be accomplishing anything else significant in the next week.<\/p>\n<p>Complaining makes me want to complain more, so maybe I&#8217;ll stop. Really, stuff&#8217;s going relatively well.  I know people who are dealing with really tough things. I&#8217;m not, actually. I&#8217;d do well to remember that. I should also remember, while I diss this past year, that while it dealt out some crumminess, it also gave me time to learn a lot about myself. I&#8217;ve become a lot more comfortable with the person I&#8217;ve grown into these past few years, so that&#8217;s a plus.<\/p>\n<p>And with that, I think I&#8217;ll go see if P wants to call it a night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a smoke detector somewhere in the building that&#8217;s been chirping its need of new batteries for the last few days. I finally called the office today to report it (I can&#8217;t believe the people downstairs didn&#8217;t do this already, seeing as it sounds like it&#8217;s coming from the second floor), but I didn&#8217;t call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/12\/random-complaints.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random Complaints<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}