TGIF

OK, the recap of the past couple of weeks:

For three days the apartment didn't have water during the day as they were doing something to our pipes, although I suspect one of the things they did was lower the water temperature and pressure as the shower now just kind of drizzles water unless you're in the mood for a cold shower, in that case, the water pressure's great!

The elevator has been out of service for a while, and will be for the next couple of weeks.  I live on the 2nd floor (3rd floor US) so I normally take the stairs anyway, but lugging bags of groceries from the basement (floor -1) to the apartment is not fun, especially since it involves turning on about 5 light switches (all the hall and garage lights are on timers) and opening up 5 doors, all of which pull rather than push.  I've gotten pretty adept at turning on the lights using my nose so I don't have to set any bags down, but opening the doors is a huge pain.

I took my car in for servicing which was surprisingly incident free.  However, they'd be able to come up to me and say, I'm sorry, your car needs about 500 euro worth of work done to it, and I'd totally tell them to do it.  I wouldn't know how to say no.   I barely know what the words for the major car parts are in French.

Work has threatened to explode into a huge shouting match/power play/big bitch fest.  These are very intelligent, accomplished people that I'm working with, but they're acting a bit like children lately.  I've always tried to remain neutral (the voice of reason, so to speak) but that could possibly be the worst place to be - everyone wants you to take a side.  I also opened my big mouth today about something I probably shouldn't have and gave my boss something else to become furious over.