Could it get any worse?!

So, we can use the tub now, assuming that the mud for tiles surrounding it is dry. However, there is still no shower and no kitchen sink. Which would be tolerable except for the sad fact that apparently we now also have no toilet for the duration of the weekend.

What moron contractor/plummer thinks that taking out the toilet at the end of the week and leaving things that way for the weekend is an acceptable way to work on a job?! It's not like we have a second bathroom!

Camping would be more luxurious than this! I may not go home after work... I might just sleep in my office. There are couches in our lounge, and a kitchenette in the adjoining aboriginal student's lounge, bathrooms down the hall, and showers a few buildings over. All I need is a pillow.

still no tub, no shower and no kitchen sink...

going to the gross, disgusting university gym showers so that i don't start to stink

bleahhh

Help me... no tub, no shower, no kitchen sink...

Living in Chaos

** Photos coming soon **

Spent 2 nights in a hotel this week while the bathroom and kitchen are being renovated. The bathroom and kitchen are still being renovated but am back in the condo nonetheless.

Hopefully the tub will be hooked up by the time I get home from work. The shower won't be ready until next week sometime.

Half the kitchen will be installed over the weekend.

Construction chaos is all over the condo.

Slowly going crazy...

Anti-Tourism Practices of Winnipeg

This weekend E and I visited the Exchange District in Winnipeg. It was Canada Day, the Winnipeg Jazz Festival was going strong, and there were scores of people filling the streets and market square. But people were not the only ones filling the streets of the Exchange District. A vile stench permeated the streets. The stench of rotting garbage.

As we walked along the streets of this otherwise beautiful historical district, we passed piles of overflowing garbage bags waiting for streetside pick up. How strange that the city had recently done away with the BFI bins. Every other less touristy, less scenic, business district has the bins.

And on a weekend when the population of pedestrians is at its peak for this neighborhood, why would the city of Winnipeg fail to arrange for garbage pick up. Is it possible that the city of Winnipeg is trying to rid itself of those pesky tourists? Does the city of Winnipeg feel that since the residents of this place have to endure the frigid cold, they need to devise some kind of testing for tourists as well?

To me it seems like ridiculously bad business practice, but who am I to question the grand scheme of our esteemed mayors office and his city council.