Annoyed: Cats vs. Babies.

I am totally annoyed.  Yesterday when we came back from grouptank, it was late, we were tired, and there was a notice from the landlord.  it was a noise complaint; we have three days to do something about the noise or get evicted.  

My first reaction was "what noise?" From having people over on Friday?  From the cats?  I looked at the note: "...refrain from walking too hard, and making noise after 9:00 PM.  Walking.  Too.  Hard.

Well, crap.  Not only can we evidently not have people over after nine, even on a Friday, but I can't even walk in the apartment.  And the neighbors didn't even bother contacting us first.  We've done our best to live with our neighbors; we havn't complained about the noise the neighbors around us make, or the cigarette butts on the sidewalk.  Maybe we should have.

I went to sleep, annoyed.  and then I was woken up at three in the morning, to the sound of the baby downstairs crying its head off, for half an hour.  When I woke up the next morning, i couldn't help but think: we have cats, who are quiet, clean, and mostly self-maintaining...and WE had to pay a $500.00 deposit.  babies are not clean, noisy as hell, and need constant care, and how much of a baby deposit is required?  It doesn't seem fair.

So I 'm going to talk to the apartment manager this afternoon, find out what's what.  I' am going to be cool and collected, solicitous, willing to compromise.  but not right now.  I'm pissed.

Tattoos- for SCIENCE!

For those of my friends who have tattoos, or have been looking at getting tattoos- this site is just too cool.  It is about the tattoos that scientists wear under their lab coats.

What really fascinates me is that these are both uniquely different tattoos then the ones you usually see at raves, and also ones that get to the core of what a tattoo should be about: the things that are highly important, or definitional to the people getting the tattoos.  In this respect, reading the reasons the scientists give for theri tattoos is really more interesting than the tattoos themselves.