Today Our Ceiling Fell Down

So today, Holly goes "you should take a lookit this ceiling in here" and i knew it was gonna be something bad. There's been an open seam running parallel to the wall right above the sofa, underneath the upstairs bedroom closet. This afternoon, it had suddenly open and torn itself roughly perpendicular, in an 'L' shape. I immediately called our landslumlord (the guy who refused to fix the downstairs electrical tangle-box, and who doesn't seem to care much that people who wear sandals over here get their feet cut open because the front door has an entire pane of glass completely shattered and glass is always falling out of it all over everywhere; it's a good thing Speck hasn't eaten any - yet), and left a message that he better get someone over here soon, because it's GOING to fall in.

Why is it that these things always, always, always happen directly above the sofa?

Later that day...

Holly and i go out for supplies. We pull back in to see a van in the driveway. Then, a white-haired figure coming out of our house. It's our landslumlord. I ask what brings him over, wondering if he got my message, but also wondering just what the hell he was doing in our place. He's coughing his lungs out and looks bad. He's also dumping god knows what into the neighbor's trash can. He tells us that the ceiling had fallen out. We're like ZOMG WTFH!?!! and he's telling us that yes, it actually did fall. He tells us to open as many windows as we can, that someone would be out to fix it tomorrow (today now), and hightails it out of there.

So we're like ZOMFG WTF! and we open the door to see... pure, pure white. A thick powdery haze is everywhere! We're breathing plaster.

Everything in the downstairs floor was covered in white powder. Everything. The worst, of course, was in the living room, where my PC and the laptop were. And the furniture, and the TV, etc.

We cleaned up as much as we could, and let it air out (none of the windows open, or the ones that do don't have screens, so we open the doors and i prop a box fan on a chair and point two more to it, directing the coke-like haze to leave at once. It's approximately breathable again.

Incidentally, we're pretty sure that it hadn't crashed down before he arrived. Holly has a giant teddy bear that we keep in a chair. When we got in, the bear was on the floor and wasn't nearly as dusted up as the chair it had been propped up on. We think he was fucking around with the ceiling and it crashed in on top of him.

Here's what we have now. I can't find our Olympus, so these were taken with the laptop's webcam. Click on the pictures for a larger view.

Approximately what we saw when we arrived on the scene (haze added in GIMP 2.0):


And here's what it looks like right now:


Close-up:


Incidentally, a black PS2 controller:


The black shop-vac that he left for us:


How am i feeling? I HAS RILLY ANGRY!1!!!