Novus Ordo Apartmento Seclorum
I never really get tired of getting these maintenance notification cards from the management on my front doorknob. The color of the card stock changes, but the graphic design -- which makes me think of some kind of secret socialist order of home repair personnel -- remains the same. I always feel like if I came home with the side above facing outward I would stumble onto some kind of Stonecutters-type assembly in my living room, perhaps never to be seen again... but alas, the side on display is always the back, which just says "We Were In Your Home Today!" (Emphasis in original.)On a related note, my oven now lights again, instead of just smelling faintly of gas.
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Nate once mailed me, for no reason, a bizarrely cut-and-paste version of one of these cards playing up a mysterious, robot-oriented sense of threat.
It's fresh in my mind since I still have it in the box of disorganized box of letters & keepsakes that I only ever look at when I'm putting off the packing-and-moving process. ("Hey, what's in this box? Ooh, stuff that's more interesting than packing is.")
To know Nate in 2003–2004 was to receive something bizarre in the mail every several months for no reason. Or maybe, as his twin brother, I was just the most convenient humor receptacle.
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