morning fun...
Slept at Pippo's but forgot to turn off my cell phone alarm clock, which electronically plays 'ASIAN TUNE', a particularly fastidious sound which is why I use it on my alarm..I'll always wake up to turn it off.
At 7 AM sharp it brutally woke me, only today I didn't NEED to wake up at 7 because Gillian spent the night at her friend Charlotte's house and so I didn't have to wake her for school. I couldn't go back to sleep after this starting episode so I lay awake in bed until 8:20.
Leaving Pippo sleeping, I returned home.

The elevator broke while I was inside alone.
It stopped somewhere between the first and second floor and my view was of a concrete wall with a gap of 6 inches of hall space. Fortunately, the yellow bell alarm button worked and equally fortunately, it was still early in the morning so the portiere, Gianna, was up and atom and heard the alarm. She even knew it was ME inside the elevator.
Cursing all the while, she attempted to keep me calm. The elevator fix it guys had just fixed it a few days ago..I wait, and wait, and wait. I didn't know how long I would have to wait, so I didn't know whether I should sit down, though I certainly thought about it, but I also thought sitting down might somehow add bad juju to the trauma, so I didn't.
Gianna had to turn the electricity off to fix the elevator, so then I got to wait enclosed in darkness.
Finally the elevator slowly rolled back to the ground floor and I was freed.
Now I know for a fact that the anticipation fear of getting stuck in elevators is worse than the reality. The reality ain't no great shakes either, though.

Five floor walk up the stairs and into the apartment and I turn on the computer.
I've been wanting to write about the Leah connection all morning BUT my computer doesn't connect, why? The telephone doesn't work. I use my cell phone to call telephone co.#1, after the usual 10 minutes of eardancing with robots an operator tells me that as of last Jan.6th I no longer have a telephone acct. w/them. I call telephone co.#2, another 10 minutes of robot eardancing and they tell me TODAY my old acct is being switched to my new acct and it will take a few hours.

I go up the street to the internet café. Their computers can't log in to LJ.
I go back to Pippo's because I don't want to go home until the elevator is fixed and I have a telephone.
Pippo is awake but we fight. I'm calm voiced and nice, he is aggressively hostile.
I return home.
The elevator is ok, the phone is ok BUT I still can't connect w/the computer because my old server acct. doesn't work with my new phone acct which exclusively uses their own servers.
ELEVEN robotic eardancing operater waits later and three calls to the techies and I'm up and running. But soon I'll have to change my acct. again. That's my blog purge, apologies..