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Well, apartment management miraculously "found" our recertification paperwork, and it has been approved! So we signed the lease last night and dropped it by the office this morning. So at least that's done! I'm definitely less stressed about that whole *thing* now, even as I'm still annoyed by this particular incarnation of our management.

Still have not heard anything back from maintenance about the broken garbage disposal (which we DID finally report.) It's definitely not an emergency, but still.

Also have not heard back about needing to set up a reinspection date.

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Had one (1) "good" day of writing the night before last - wrote more than 600 words in a go! It's... a little sad that that seems like a "good" day, when I had a couple runs of hitting 500+ words every day, but... welp, it's better than nothing! It did not transfer to magical motivation yesterday, when limping across 100 words was still a struggle. But dammit, I want to finish this damn fic.

TBH, if this fic *hadn't* been for a challenge, I would probably give up on it. But it was for a challenge, where it was allowed to post a WIP only if you were reasonably certain it would be completed. Which at the time I was... Now it's been months, but I still feel honor-bound to complete the damn thing.

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On the writing front, my head keeps jumping ahead to October, because a couple people on my FB flist shared the 2021 Inktober prompt list. I recall it turning out that the guy who started Inktober is kind of a dick, but there are always buckets of alternative prompt lists that go around. Since I'm not much of a visual artist, a couple times I've used the prompt list to write oneshots.

Part of me wants to do that again! I've found prompt lists like that a lot of fun in the past. A holiday themed one for original fic several years ago, Inktober back in maybe 2018? 2019? The AUgust prompts last year...

But considering how burned out I am on this current WIP, plus the several things that I have in various stages of in-progress, or hope to get started on... I also know it's probably not a good idea, ha.

(And that's not even getting into thinking about NaNoWriMo. I've done it enough years in a row, I don't want to break my streak, but I don't have a bit project to turn my attention toward right now. Though I've still got over a month to figure that out.)
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Apparently we failed our apartment inspection.

We got a notice today that we were "not in keeping with the terms of our lease" due to "housekeeping issues, and the presence of trash."

...There is no trash in the apartment beyond what's in the can under the sink and the can in the bathroom, both of which were nearly empty, because we took the trash out the day before the inspection.

All I can think is that they saw the couple of (contained!) plastic bags of *laundry* by the closet and assumed they were trash? They're not trash! They're blankets that need to be washed! I feel like we are not the only people in the world to have ever used a plastic bag to hold laundry.

And there were no details of what "housekeeping issues" they saw, and I genuinely don't know what they mean. We swept and vacuumed, cleaned the sinks/tub, cleared and cleaned the counter. There were two bowls from breakfast and two plates from lunch in the sink? There's clutter on the bedside tables and entertainment center? To be honest, I resent the idea that I'm not allowed to have STUFF on tables. None of it is *dirty* clutter or anything, either. It's like... books and game cases and mail. A pile of buttons.

My concern is that they think the fact there are plastic tote storage boxes in the "living room" area is somehow a "housekeeping issue". It's a studio apartment, and we do have stuff stored in boxes. Not really sure what we can do about that.

So I guess we'll try to get all of that neatened up, though I don't know exactly what to do to fix it, because that's so vague, and also not true.

None of this was mentioned or clarified the day of the inspection, which also annoys me. They could have ASKED if the plastic bags were trash, and we could have told them that no, it's blankets we have to take to the laundromat because none of the washers here can deal with blankets.

But ugh, I'm really annoyed.

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