We are in the midst of a hard-core renovation: bathroom destruction and bamboo floor installation. The process has been a pretty mysterious one for us, including 48 hour notification rules popping up like weeds at my building. But the most amusing mystery has been the process of hotmopping the shower. What could a hot mop be? Mom thought it was actually "hard mop," Dad thought it sounded most like a lame last-minute Christmas gift, like a chia pet. I started setting hop mop to 50s jingles. But anyway: because we've taken out a truly ancient and disgusting tub and decided to put in a tile wall and floor with a glass door to create a shower instead of replacing the tub, there has to be a protective barrier between the water and the walls: this is created by the hot mop process which we finally discovered consists of first a cement frame, then a layer of black paper that kind of looks like sandpaper, then layer after layer of tar, spread on the surface by dipping a mop into a bucket of tar and mopping around. Once seen in action, it was all so clear--a mop literally coated with bubbling tar. If only my condo's regulations would ever make such sense.
THE LISTS:
to do work: Outline the chapter. Write the first section on ecstatic memory. Write a first draft of research statement. Write the mask section of c2.
to do life: Pay down debt (currently $1,031.09). Procure dog. Send siff letter. Go to dmv. Go running.
to do blitz: sarah, marilyn, giulia, irmary, mariana, dar, nv, sf, marzena, thérèse, hen.
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