this fine, fine thriving garden of mold was my latest discovery, found just yesterday morning. that is our bed, that bit of laminate gorgeousness to the left. so we've been sleeping just inches away from an abundant patch of biological wondrousness. i was kind of relieved in the background of being completely freaked out, because i've been obsessed about the musty-ass smell that dominates one corner of the bedroom. i've washed the bedding repeatedly and i air out the room all day long despite rather cool temperatures outside. at one point i found scant amounts of mold under the windows in the same room, but it didn't seem to warrant such a strong stench. so now i know.
not sure if this normally happens, but when i set about cleaning this mold up, the stucco plaster that textures the wall was wiping away. kind of dissolving. so our wall, while it looks better now and seems a good deal less moldy, is sort of covered in a bizarre paste of plaster, mold and laundry detergent solution.
we are locked into this apartment until next october, but T is pretty wigged out by my mold discovery (in addition to our leaky sink, a broken toilet, and a bathroom ceiling that is determined to collapse in on us) and wants to ditch our deposit (about $900 USD) and get a new place. oh yes, and our rat visitor, who has since been murdered, can't forget him.
i'm not sure what to think. i'm feeling a little better now that i've located the nasty ass mold patch and can keep an eye on if should it choose to rebound. apartment prices are sky-high now, post-Expo, so a new place is going to cost at least $1500 USD/month. at LEAST. that's what one of our friends is paying now, after months of looking. rents in shanghai are not what they used to be. we're in a good location, just a block away from the subway line 9, which T uses to go to work. BUT, we could be doing better, as he likes to phrase it. he's worried about my lungs, as he should be, and i guess i should be concerned about that, too. and mold spores... well, they aren't any good for anyone.
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I'm worried about your lungs too, and that isn't just thinly veiled innuendo. I'm not too stoked about a bathroom that's about to collapse either... Are rents seriously $1500 USD/mo. there???
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