ugh now i’m super pissed. i called the landlady to bitch about the cables and she turned it around on me saying i shouldn’t have been up there in the first place because the roof has, and i swear to god she said this, “structural integrity issues”. i guess that’s alright except she hasn’t told ANYONE HERE ABOUT THIS. one of my neighbors goes up there every sunday to read a book and nap on a lawn chair, and there’s also a picnic table and a patio swing up there that people like to sit in and watch the fireworks and city lights and things. the path up to the roof is completely unobstructed with not so much as a “WATCH OUT, THE ROOF IS ROTTEN AND SHITTY LIKE MY SLUMLORD HEART” post-it to let people know there’s issues.

wow, am i angry much? it just bugs me because we’ve been trying to get the laundry room and swimming pool and various lights and leaks and things fixed around here for YEARS. i’ve never even seen them paint. i have to wear knee-high rainboots every time i want to do a load of laundry because the drainage hoses are rotted through and she won’t replace them. (she comes here to empty the coin boxes for them and takes the DON’T USE THE RIGHT WASHER, IT WILL FLOOD signs out of the laundry room though) WHY ARE YOU GIVING ME CRAP ABOUT MY LETTUCES LADY WHEN YOU CANNOT EVEN FIX A LEAKY PIPE OR BROKEN LIGHT.

i moved everything off the roof and down by the pool tonight. i wasn’t originally intending on having more plants here at home, but the rooftop ones have actually been some of the best looking plants so far - you can control the conditions more than if they were buried in a garden, the cookie boxes they’re planted in are essentially mini-greenhouses when you have the lids snapped on so the sprouts won’t dry out or get blown over, and they were too high up for bugs or something because nothing up there ever had the slightest blemish on a leaf. except they did get torn up by the neighbor kids once, so i guess it wasn’t perfect. i’m a little worried they’ll all get eaten by bugs now, but that’s better than “crushed underneath the boot of the satellite guy”.

i’m looking for another space or some sort of wheeled greenhouse now, but there’s no such thing as a “u-gro-it” greenhouse rental space as far as i can tell. (it totally sounds like the most crunchy granola small business one could start though, next to like a holistic pet clinic or “macramaze! the macrame experience”, your source for knotted owl wall hangings and knotted owl doormats) the only thing i can think of is there’s like a million hydroponics shops within walking distance of here. maybe one of them wants someone to set up a window display with plants that aren’t weed? maybe?

who am i kidding, nobody ever wants to grow anything besides weed :(