Oh, the trials and tribulations...

[vulgarweed]

Those of you who live in houses that are actually several feet or more from the nearest neighbor may not appreciate this fully, but the super is cleaning again. Right outside my "office." Honestly, it's a tiny hallway, how much vacuuming can it need?

Also, Ronnie Van Zant is unloading about Saturday Night Specials to the entire neighborhood, and for once I'm not the one responsible. Because where I come from, all tapes left in the car for more than a fortnight turn into Best of Lynyrd Skynyrd tapes.

This makes it rather challenging, atmospherically speaking, to try to fit in before work writing a bit of flying-carpet porn with a subtle hint of Animagus bestiality.

Happy (slightly belated) birthday, resonant8! Glad you liked your present.

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[maggiehoneybite.livejournal.com]

This makes it rather challenging, atmospherically speaking, to try to fit in before work writing a bit of flying-carpet porn with a subtle hint of Animagus bestiality.

Hee. As an apartment-dweller whose building's balconies have been undergoing constant renovations since September (complete with drilling, hammering and various other construction noises), I feel your pain.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Ow. Oh ow. Things like that are the reason why it's a good thing HP-style death curses aren't real.

[tehta.livejournal.com]

My apartment building is undergoing renovations, and the plumbers have set up a pipe-sawing-contraption on the back fire escape. Right under my bedroom window. Which is two feet from my pillow.

It's not just the noise, it's catching glimpses of the plumbers through the blinds as I lounge in bed in a healthy state of deshabille. (They start at seven am. I do not.)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Ugh!

Not much to look at, I take it? (Nothing is at that hour.)

[tehta.livejournal.com]

No. They're not, you know, hot porn film plumbers. They're actual middle-aged plumbers.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

You'd know that right away because they're making actual plumber noise and not the bow-chicka-bow music.

[tehta.livejournal.com]

Heh.

But such music would be only marginally less annoying than the sound of sawing through metal, IMO. But it would also be less annoying than my downstairs neighbour's emo band, which likes to practice at 1am. (Sample lyrics: "The paaaaaaain of love, the PAAAAAAIN of love..." That's what I hear, anyway.)

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

There is such as thing as being too clean. I wear noise-reducing headphones at work to help reduce the distraction offered by the obnoxious radio station my office mate loves. She keeps it down low, but it's still annoying at times.

Flying carpet pr0n?? Flying carpets breed? Heh-heh, do you have to watch they don't slip out the door one full-moon night and mate with the neighbour's horrible shag rug? >D And what would be the result?? Something Hagrid would adopt, I bet.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

I can't deal with headphones unless I have to. They give me claustrophobia. (I know it sounds weird, but they really, really do!)

Heh, well that's not quite what I had in mind, but I fear you may have bunnied me. XD

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Gives your bunny a pat on the head, a carrot, and a lime-green deep pile shag remnant.

Hee, you're only supposed to cross the fine, purebred Oriental flying carpet with its own sort, the thought of a mongrel hybrid is just... well, I'm sure Lady Malfoy would have an attack of the vapours.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Hee, you're only supposed to cross the fine, purebred Oriental flying carpet with its own sort, the thought of a mongrel hybrid is just...

How about a Mongol hybrid? Because the little-known but truly vicious hordes of weavers who worked to Genghis Khan's specifications left their genetic legacy all over from the Yellow River to the Black Sea...

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Hmm, might make for a particularly slippy carpet runner! Also beware of Shaker floor-cloths, they're thin and hard to hang onto when in flight.

So how do you tell if a carpet is in a 'family way'? It gets lumpy? And produces what? mouse pads? fuzzy slippers?