Renovations

The recent flooding of the Studio did not cause a lot of permanent physical damage, but the contamination did force the disposing of a lot of accumulated stuff.  And that seemed a good incentive to get rid of some more stuff that was untouched by what backed up from Neptune's drains.  And as long as all that was going on, the building thought it would be good to do some needed repairs and repainting.  Molly left me a voice mail this morning saying that the management was suggesting getting rid of all our chairs, so I figured I better get up there and make sure nothing disappeared.  As it turned out, Brendan was just talking about a set of four dining room type chairs we had,  the backs of which had been disintegrating almost since I picked them up at a garage sale in our first year there.  So we marked those for disposal, but I told him to keep the others for now, including my ancient Czechoslovakian wooden desk chair, with me since Carbondale.

The falling apart cabinet and shelf unit (a donation secured by Molly and arrived in the space before I built any of our furniture) has been removed and thrown away, which will make room for the flat file units.  That back red wall hasn't been this visible in this decade, with all the stuff Molly had been keeping there now gone.  Last week building crews were at that wall, scraping back dozens of calcium deposits that had been secreted by the ancient brick walls.  Since my last visit, the crew had also repainted the window sills with gray paint (done in bright green paint more typical of our space just a few years ago), which they started to use in some of the room corners as well. I don't know if they plan to also use it on all the scraped areas, or even to just repaint that whole wall.  That gray is pretty depressing, so depending on how much of the wall it covers, we may decide to paint over it again.  Once the painting is done we can work on setting up the flat files in that corner and start getting the space back.