Friday, September 26, 2008

Huh?

I woke up this morning at 6:30 am to someone pounding on our door. I shuffled on over in my muddled state and opened it to see the doorman and some little old lady. Doorman told me in Mandarin that there was a huge leak coming from the ceiling of the little old lady's apartment. I'm not entirely sure how to respond to that, so I just stand there. Then, Doorman thinking I don't understand Mandarin, switches into some other dialect and tries again. Gramma crawls out of bed and tells them to come in. We show them the bathrooms. See? We're not running any water, neither of us have even flushed a toilet since last night. It's not our water. Doorman and little old lady leave. I get ready for work since I lost that last precious 15 minutes, and Gramma with her insomnia goes to the living room to watch tv because she can't go back to sleep.

After three days of working from 9am till midnight, I was a little peeved.

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