Colinism - Hieroglyphics

On Saturday, the boy and I were watching HBO's Rome (excellent series btw) and the opening credits have a series of drawings coming to life and moving across the screen (it looks cooler than it sounds).

Colin: Wow, those hydroglyphs are really cool.

Me: Hydroglyphs? Don't you mean Hieroglyphics?

Colin: (Long pause) Don't envy me my ingnorance.


Sad side note: I couldn't remember the real term for hieroglyphics, I had to go look it up. All I could hear in my head was Colin's voice saying "hydroglyphs." And I knew it was wrong but I couldn't remember the real name! His Colinisms are rubbing off on me! Help!

Not again!!!!

I cannot believe this is happening again!

I get home from work and go into my bedroom and my bloody back door is leaking! Again! This is after it was supposedly fixed and the water is just flooding down the walls. I can barely get a bucket under it because you can't catch what is running down the walls. There's a huge puddle by the door and my rug there is SOAKED.

Great. So the walls are destroyed (the paint is just flaking off) and the mildew is back. This is bloody nuts! And since I've just paid my rent for the next two months, I probably won't be able to get my landlord to look at it until January! Although the last time I had a problem with the door, he fixed it immediately. We'll see.

ARGGHHH!

Please let it be a squirrell...

So early this morning (about 1:30 a.m.) I get woken out of a deep sleep for some unknown reason. I realize I've only been asleep for a little under 2 hours and I'm annoyed that something woke me up since I had to teach this morning.

Took me 30 seconds to find out exactly WHAT woke me up.

I heard scrabbling sounds going along the wall of my bedroom that faces the courtyard. Like something scurrying along the wall. I'm thinking it's a squirrell. This gives me quite a scare because I couldn't quite tell if it was outside or not. I realize it must be outside because it runs back along the wall towards me. But then I HEAR IT DIRECTLY OVER MY HEAD!

That stopped my heart. I was beginning to think something was in my wall when it hit me that nothing in my wall could be above my head at the same time. The walls just aren't designed that way. So I feel better and realize it's probably a squirrell running along my back wall and maybe my upstairs neighbour has a cat that heard the squirrell and is trying to chase it.

Then at the office, Val tells me that some buildings do have gaps where the wall and ceilings meet so it is possible that something was in my wall and scurried up to the ceiling. (Thanks Val, thanks ever so much). This sounded like a big thing so I'm losing hope that it could have been a mouse.

I'm still maintaining my hope that it was a squirrell on the outside of my building (one of those big, grey, evil squirrells), but I'm not so sure now and I'm not sure how calmly I'll sleep tonight.

Dammit!