In which I am quite glad not to own our apartment

Last night, I woke up a bit before midnight to the sound of falling water. Inside the apartment. Now, we've had a lot of trouble with the bay windows in the bedrooms--there's something wrong externally, so that water will leak through the wall and in through the top of the window. Not the glass, mind you--through the plaster. It's been fixed periodically, but it's an old building and there's clearly a structural problem.

( Leaks and mice and other problems )

In other news, I'm out of the running for Dogboy and Justine, post-callbacks. I was surprised to get a callback at all--I completely blew the song in my initial audition, but the people casting were at least familiar enough with my voice (I've worked with all of them before) I guess they decided to call me back anyway. It was kind. Also kind, they had me sing before doing any of the readings. And came to the conclusion that my voice really just isn't going to work for this part, so none of us had to continue wasting time. I'm not that surprised--the other actresses called back all seem to have brassy belts, which I just don't. As much as I'd love to have a sexy, jazzy belt, my voice is sweet. Doesn't matter how much I darken my vowels, it still sounds like I should be singing Irish folk songs. (I'm not complaining--it's just not going to work for this part.) It's a pity--I would have loved to sing more of Mithrigil's music, but all told, I'd rather them find the right person for this part, which is pretty clearly not me.

Exciting update!

I caught the guy who lives below us just as he came in--he's gone to check out his bedroom. But he'd just been caught by the folks on the ground floor, who I could hear from the stairwell anyway. Went down--their ceiling has bowled in there's water coming down the side, plus it's spread to the center of their ceiling and is also dripping on their bed. So clearly it's also puddling in the side of the second floor and then spreading out between the floor and ceiling down there. Awesome. I hope we're high enough that doesn't start happening to us, too.

The super's already in their basement, so I guess that saves us another phone call?

WHAT I DON'T EVEN

It's coming through the ceiling in four places and we had to move the mattress and we're going to have to move the computer desk and I'm running out of pots and OMFG

Updates

Well, the leaks have slowed, at least. We've moved almost all the furniture out of the bedroom. We pulled the leaves from the dining room table, moved the computer desk out to the dining room, shlepped our mattress and all of the pictures and electronics and most of the textiles out of the bedroom. We'll be sleeping on the futon, since one of the leaks is directly over the bed. We've lost a track light. The ceiling is starting to ooze a substance not unlike Coca Cola. I'm afraid fixing this is going to involve ripping out a wall and the ceiling.

Good lord.