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Friday, April 20th, 2012

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    7:57a
    Would you guys believe me if I told you my bed fell apart last night?

    I have an Ikea bed, and the cross-struts have apparently come unscrewed. Leading to two of the support bars coming unscrewed, leading to the headboard falling off.

    I am counting my week as starting last Monday, the 9th, and since then it has been a disaster mitigated only by the awesomeness of C2E2 and the joy of starting to post the new edited Dead Isle. You can find Chapter One here, by the way.

    If I can survive until 4pm today, I'll have two whole days of freedom.

    ...in which to repair my bed, try to finish the Roman epic, and pull a play together for submission in two weeks.

    Oh good. Because life was too easy, before.
    10:49a
    So, there was this package...

    Me: Awkward, I saw this in your mailbox, thought I'd bring it to you.
    Awkward Coworker: What is it?
    Me: I don't know. Open it, I want to see!
    Awkward Coworker: Oh wow, it's uh. Brackets?
    Me: Did you order those?
    Awkward Coworker: No...brackets and a bracket catalogue! Score!
    Me: Your last name is [Jones], right?
    Awkward Coworker: No...it's [Smith]. Oh, this package is for...someone else...
    Me: ...oh my god. I knew that. I know your last name. What the hell is wrong with me?
    Awkward Coworker: *endless loling*
    5:22p
    THE BED IS FIXED. And I didn't break any limbs! Almost broke the modem, almost broke the bed, probably scared the fuck out of my downstairs neighbors, but I fixed the god damned bed.

    And rotated my mattress while I was at it!

    The issue, it turns out, is with Ikea cutting one of the bed-boards too short; the board kept slipping and falling onto the strut, which put pressure on the metal and pulled the screw out. I realise nobody can see this in their minds right now, but the important part is that I managed to secure the board in place with duct tape, LIKE A BOSS, so it won't happen again.

    Now I am going to spend the entire weekend sleeping in my newly-repaired bed.

    And nursing my bruises.

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