Harry Potter and the Painted Door
Jun. 11th, 2004 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothWhen I got home from work last night, there was a message stuck in the door from the landlord. I hate these messages -- I'm always irrationally certain that they're telling me I have X days to clear out and find a new place, even though that's only happened the once, when they wanted to remodel my apartment and rent me a different one two doors down for $200 more.
I get an awful lot of them at Eden Roc, though. A completely ridiculous number of them. Two a week, or more.
This one said that they were going to paint the doors, which they could only do while I was home, since they had to leave the door open while the primer and paint dried, so if I was not going to be in my apartment at any time on June 11th and June 12th, I should call and tell them.
WTF? I called, and left a message telling them that I'd be gone all day today and half of tomorrow, but seriously, WTF? You're telling us this the day before you start work? Are you going to go through all 100 messages from everyone telling you that yes, they're not going to be sitting in their apartment doing nothing all day Friday and saturday, and work up some sort of schedule?
I have a game after work tonight, but I think, just in case, I should stop home on the way and make sure they didn't just leave my door sitting open.
My worry is slightly alleviated by the Key incident, where they said they'd be changing all the locks the next day and 'contacting us soon' about how to get new keys. Yes, that's against the law. No, they didn't actually do it. I kind of doubt they'll end up doing anything this time, either.
After fuming about that for a while, I went to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It was a lot like every other HP movie, as far as I can tell... it had a plot, which sort of made sense, but stuff was left out that would make certain scenes incomprehensible (like the scene where they're sampling the older weaselys' candy) if you hadn't read the books.
The one thing that stood out to me was that there was an awful lot of 'killing small animals' going on -- three birds fell to the whomping willow, and countless ferrets were tossed to the hippogryff. Poor ferrets.
Oh, the heroes (but not most of the villains) were wearing muggle street clothes inside hogwarts when not in class. Did they do that in the other movies? It seemed odd.
I get an awful lot of them at Eden Roc, though. A completely ridiculous number of them. Two a week, or more.
This one said that they were going to paint the doors, which they could only do while I was home, since they had to leave the door open while the primer and paint dried, so if I was not going to be in my apartment at any time on June 11th and June 12th, I should call and tell them.
WTF? I called, and left a message telling them that I'd be gone all day today and half of tomorrow, but seriously, WTF? You're telling us this the day before you start work? Are you going to go through all 100 messages from everyone telling you that yes, they're not going to be sitting in their apartment doing nothing all day Friday and saturday, and work up some sort of schedule?
I have a game after work tonight, but I think, just in case, I should stop home on the way and make sure they didn't just leave my door sitting open.
My worry is slightly alleviated by the Key incident, where they said they'd be changing all the locks the next day and 'contacting us soon' about how to get new keys. Yes, that's against the law. No, they didn't actually do it. I kind of doubt they'll end up doing anything this time, either.
After fuming about that for a while, I went to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It was a lot like every other HP movie, as far as I can tell... it had a plot, which sort of made sense, but stuff was left out that would make certain scenes incomprehensible (like the scene where they're sampling the older weaselys' candy) if you hadn't read the books.
The one thing that stood out to me was that there was an awful lot of 'killing small animals' going on -- three birds fell to the whomping willow, and countless ferrets were tossed to the hippogryff. Poor ferrets.
Oh, the heroes (but not most of the villains) were wearing muggle street clothes inside hogwarts when not in class. Did they do that in the other movies? It seemed odd.
