And anyway, I predict the next meteor to hit will be a monster

[sovay]

I walked down this afternoon to the City of Somerville's Department of Public Works. It is usefully about fifteen minutes from our apartment. I spoke with a health inspector; after hearing the entire story, he sent me upstairs to get a letter from the building inspector who came yesterday, whose recommendation our landlord is disregarding. He was in court, but the woman who was in the office listened to me and said that she would see to it that the city will send our landlord a letter instructing him to make the repairs as agreed or face bureaucracy. On paper. Not by handshake. Of which we will be sent a copy at the same time, for our own records.

(And then I went to Kelly's to get a Reuben for lunch, because I was finally present enough for my brain to agree with my body that it was starving and I hadn't been able to order one on Monday.)

I will wait on the letter, and I will wait on our landlord's response. But this feels much, much better than waiting for nothing, including phone calls.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Helpful DPW guys, yay!

And triple yay Reuben sandwiches. (I saw a menu recently with a "Rachel" being smoked turkey. I am not sure what a proper name for that variant would be.)

[sovay]

Helpful DPW guys, yay!

I was very glad of them. Guy Selfridge and Donna Pickett in Health. The woman upstairs in Building sounded like Eileen when she introduced herself, but I need to tag a last name to that. I will want to write them thank-you letters if this actually works out.

(I saw a menu recently with a "Rachel" being smoked turkey. I am not sure what a proper name for that variant would be.)

derspatchel and I were just discussing this! (I thought a Rachel was a Reuben with pastrami instead, so maybe it's the generic term for any alternate cold cuts in this sandwich.) He informed me the inventor's privilege of naming was mine. I suggested Æthelred. I think he was unconvinced.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Round here (as in western CT), for what it's worth, a Reuben with pastrami is called a "pastrami Reuben," and seems at times to be more readily found than the corned beef variety. I think I've seen a Rachel billed as turkey with coleslaw, maybe? The terminology seems loose enough that I'm sure you could use it as a generic for "Reuben with alternate cold cuts" if you'd like to.

He informed me the inventor's privilege of naming was mine. I suggested Æthelred.

I'd vote for this. Some sandwich, somewhere in the world, in the world should definitely be called an Æthelred.

And then there could be a variant of the Æthelred, using slightly burnt cakes in place of bread, called the Ælfred. Perfect!