Gah

[llywela]

Have finally cracked and written a letter of complaint to my landlord about Him Upstairs. This stupid guy keeps on waking me up by playing loud music in the middle of the night, and it isn't even good music. It isn't every night, nor even every week, but it does happen on a regular basis, and I am way beyond sick of it. It is extremely anti-social and, frankly, I have better things to do at 3am than listen to someone else's horrendous taste in music! Last night was a good example. The music woke me up at about 2.30am, and I spent about half an hour trying to tune out the thumping beat and tuneless caterwauling and get back to sleep, to no avail. Then at 3am I gave in, went upstairs, and thumped on his door as loud as possible until he finally couldn't ignore me any more, and then fumed at him to turn the music off. He didn't, but did turn it down, although it was still on the edges of my hearing. And this never stops him doing it again - he doesn't always even open the door when I knock. Then, between me being thoroughly woken up and him stomping around in a snit, I couldn't get back to sleep all night. Dozed lightly between 5.30 and 6am, but that was it. And I have a job interview this morning, which I now have to go to with my brain feeling like tapioca.

Yep, letter of complaint to the landlord going in the post this morning. Along with a list of long-overdue maintenance issues for his attention, including that security light out the back that he assured me would be fixed after I spotted that prowler back in the spring, but never has been.

Yeah, I'm feeling kind of curmudgeonly this morning. Need to channel some zen before the interview, I think!

Edit - oh, but in other news, one of my cousins and his partner had their second son yesterday, congratulations to them. He's called Evan, which...doesn't exactly go with Luca, which is their older boy's name. Taking both sides of the family into consideration, that is now 15 babies in 12 years - and 12 of them have been boys! Where did all the girls go? Madness.

Comments

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Heh. I threatened him with the police one time, when he brought home a posse of drunken friends who proceeded to have a brawl on the doorstep! I had Small sleeping over and she was petrified. But that was also the reason I didn't actually make the call (that and that the threat worked and they all dispersed) - I didn't want the disruption all night.

Still, the complaint has been posted. And he came around to apologise this evening. We'll see if he mends his ways this time.

[ne-quine.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping!

Its maybe worth keeping a diary so you have evidence of when he is playing his music to show that it is anti-social.

Oh, I was rude earlier in not saying good luck for your interview. I hope it went well.

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

No, not rude at all - thank you for the thought.

It went okay, I think, but I can never really tell. It doesn't really matter how well I do in interview, or how much they seem to like me - it is all about the competition and how much better they do, or how much more experience they have, or whatever. We shall see what comes. I'm not getting my hopes up, as I've been disappointed too many times already.