fun!

[fox]

Things I have learned or been reminded of tonight, in chronological order:

• My door is quite sturdy; I cannot shoulder it open, and I suspect I couldn't kick it in either if I tried. (Either that, or I am generally lacking in main force. Or, possibly, both.)
  
• My neighbor downstairs and across the hall keeps late hours, is very nice, and doesn't speak an awful lot of English.
  
• I do not know how to pick a lock with a bobby pin.
  
• Bobby pins have little rubber tips -- bobs, I suppose (aha!) -- on the ends to keep you from scratching your head.
  
• 30-odd minutes feels like an awfully long time when you don't know which direction the emergency maintenance guy is going to come from to let you back into your apartment.
  
• $35 due with the next month's rent feels like no money at all when what it's buying is not having to sleep on the landing.
  
• A spare key brought by an emergency maintenance guy at 1am will still open a door whose lock has a little rubber tip from the end of a bobby pin stuck in it.

Night, y'all.