Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

I have photos in two shows this First Friday. One is the Flickr Raleigh Social Group summer project. There are 50 of us who signed up to be in the show, so there will be as many as 50 photos hanging on the walls. One of them is mine. I’m not telling you which one because we submitted in seeeeekrit! The show will be juried, and there will be winners. It will be held at Crocker’s Mark Gallery at 613 W Morgan Street in Raleigh, next to Moonlight Pizza. I also have two photos up at Slim’s Downtown (227 S Wilmington St). I donated these two for a benefit for a friend’s grandmother’s cancer treatments.

Also, my friend Oliver is doing a First Friday show that’s just his work (he also has two in the Slim’s benefit). That will be at Cafe 101, located at 444 S Blount, near the corner of Davie.

Mom made another good point this morning: Why are the Republicans always talking about how much Democrats spend, when they are the ones who consistently put us into more debt as a nation?

Graphic from National deby by U.S. presidential terms, with added highlighting for presidencies when our national debt increased and their party affiliation.

I have too much crap to do to bother taking pictures, but I’m having a little bit of an apartment problem. I was in my largish bedroom closet two days ago, when I leaned over to pick up some laundry from the corner. One t-shirt was against the wall. I picked it up, and it was soaked. I pulled a few things away from the wall, and I revealed mildew and dampness all along the wall. I started hunting around and found the there was a leak at the bottom of the wall all along the back of my closet, there was dampness (not really a puddle) in the utility closet, and the coat closet had wet stains all around the bottom of the walls. Now, they have moved my dresser out of the closet (my awesome sturdy House of Denmark dresser that I’ve had since I was about 13) and into my bedroom. Water has clearly been soaking the bottom of it on one side for a while, so it’s definitely compromised. Ruined? Probably not. I may still get it checked out though. There might be a renter’s policy claim in that, although my deductible may be too high for it to mean much. Anyway, total pain. No thanks, annoying apartment issues! I don’t have enough space for the contents of my closet to be sitting around in the bedroom. The plan is that after they dry all the treated parts out for a few days, they will shampoo the carpet, then apply some other treatment or another, and that should be enough. There will also be a lot of repainting in that general area. Hope that’s all good enough. Did I mention I – like my Dad – am highly allergic to mildew? Good times. :S

Oliver’s been bugging me to see Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies for FOREVER! I finally got around to it this weekend. Superfun! I took some video: