Kendra James

We’re just GTFO-ing unfortunately. This is one of those publicly traded national landlords and I am exhausted. I’ve been semi-involved trying to get a tenants union going (1 of their buildings in ktown is on rent strike) but w/ 350+ units nothing is really shaking out yet.

This has been our thought, which is crazy bc we're in one of those "luxury" buildings, so everything is pretty renoed. But they also let the elevator, the entrance on our side of the building, and our garage door break and go unfixed since Christmas, so we do think they're trying to get ppl out.

The place we're moving into is categorically better on most fronts, but obviously I would prefer to simply not be moving on semi-short notice with a one year old!

Filing this whole incident under things that absolutely feel illegal, but that I probably won't be able to do shit about.

But also, no they can't come this morning, because we've also been asking for mold testing for weeks because the area smells like mildew. We've had two huge rainstorms and they never actually fixed the leak! Told them no way in hell can they start more construction until we get test results.

My email back began with, "Amazing how quickly things start moving once you know the unit will need to be ready to rent out soon!" 🙃

So we notified them officially on Saturday. Lo and behold, this morning, after 8 weeks of back and forth, we get an email telling us that the vendor is ready and if we want he can even come get started today!

So ofc we chose not to renew our lease, which was up next month. I waited until the last possible moment to tell them, even tho we got accepted in our new place weeks ago, and signed the lease last Friday. I suspected that as soon as we told them, suddenly the vendors would be avail.

8 weeks ago our building came and tore out the wall around the window in our nursery bc of a leak on the building's roof that was letting water into our apt when it rained. Then they just... left it. I've been emailing with them for weeks now and kept being told "we're waiting on our vendor".

Why mess with perfection?

Each time I wake up from an uninterrupted 8 hours of sleep or take this kid to an afternoon brunch where he is perfectly content to sit in his stroller, wave at people, and try a parade of new foods without complaint, I am more and more committed to my one and done stance.

Half of this mornings work was relearning how to spell "potpourri" but once I figured that out things really sailed on.

Well, on the plus side, I did still manage to get out of the house by 7:30 to start these rewrites. Only gonna get one scene done because [gestures broadly] but this is better than option B, which was "say fuck it, light a joint at 9am, and disassociate."

I feel the same about featuring children during the state of the union as I do about featuring children in a season of Love After Lockup.

Accomplishment: kept this one alive for a year and also I’m pretty sure he likes me, even when I’m shoving a camera in his face during prayer. He is one today.

I’m just here for Freebird.

Gotta just hold onto a project for a decade sometimes before someone appreciates it 😂

And about an hour ago I got off a zoom with my cohort from the screenwriting intensive I applied to on a whim this fall. I got in with a CW-style teen supernatural pilot and am now in rewrites for a first look and general with a major studio this summer.

I’ve decided to be better about announcing when I’ve accomplished something, like the loans above.

On Tuesday I turned in the second draft of my book proposal about working at the American Girl Place and my semi-serious belief in an American service industry/retail workforce draft.

The Petrosian skate was a very fun watch. What a shame her coach had to watch from a monitor backstage. Surely she should have been more comfortable watching from her home in Russia 🙃

She ain’t beating the Mother Gothel charges.

I don’t know these people but Annika Hocke has a great vibe.

Taking an edible and watching Pairs for the first time all season 😎

We gotta move the team event to week two.

I finished watching the men’s free skate.

Hollered in hindsight when Tara said that Shaidorov was just laying seeds for future Olympics with this performance.

I got spoiled in so many ways (including from the Peacock app itself 🙄) but I am just hitting play on the second group of programs because Peacock took their fucking time getting that replay up. I cannot wait to watch this; I know results but I have no clue how any of it happened.

I didn’t notice the lift on first viewing (though it was clear on the second), but also I’m not a judge working the biggest event in sport!!! They were both riddled with mistakes *and* tight in both skills execution and artistry.

So in this case because FB/C have historically (“historically” lol, it’s only been since March) had the stronger skating skills they were benefitting from that in the judging.