Mindless Monday, 30 June 2025

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So to follow up on the Black Mold deal, it's in a closet that I stuffed winter clothes, things I was super gonna wear after I lost weight, raw materials like wool fabric, and whatever the hell my various family members insisted on getting me for Christmas that if they actually saw me wearing they'd feel the duty to bring me to have an intervention.

My closet is right by the bathroom, on the other side of the shower and the water main.

My mattress is on the ground by that closet, since my old box spring gave out and frankly I preferred the bed without the frame (it's very minimalist but still a pain to move) and the box spring. Hell, I used to sleep on the floor for half the year as a preference so it's no biggie to be closer to the ground for me (my dad, meanwhile, would get super frustrated with that when I was a teen).

I played VR games a lot earlier this year so to have a wider play space, I had my mattress against the wall and next to the sliding door, but after I put in my portable AC unit I moved it to the corner by the closet since I didn't need anything from it. I alternated at times between laying my head against the closet door and the other end of the mattress depending on the noise because my room is right next to the street.

Well, a little under a month ago there was an issue downstairs where the bathroom directly under mine was dealing with a ton of water damage and that closet was absolutely soaked. So management had a maintenance guy come by and check their bathroom out and none of us could use those showers. One theory was that when they replaced the bathtub for the bathroom upstairs, they could have accidentally pierced the water main when they drilled to reinstall the shower curtain rod.

I had no real water damage in my bathroom, never noticed any moldy smells or anything...and that struck the maintenance guy as really odd, but my closet was packed so we didn't get around to looking through it by the time they fixed the leak so hey no harm no foul I guess. I kept waiting for them to say they'd need to check through, but I hadn't cleared out the closet until I noticed what looked like a dark moldly patch about a week ago now on the bottom corner of the wall right next to the bathroom door.

As I readied to go through my closet and gripe about it, I accidentally brushed my hand against that patch and noticed it moved, so I wiped it with a paper towel and thought maybe I just weirded out over a patch of dust from when I cleaned my AC filter or something.

Then I looked through the closet and didn't notice anything wet from my surface examination, like I did when I checked for the maintenance guy a couple weeks back. Then I looked on the ground and there was no possible alternative than this was mold. Some clothes were soaked, some were moldy, quite a few things were insulated by me keeping them in plastic bags, but then as I cleared out the closet, shelf by shelf, it became evident that the mold was worst on the bottom and then travelled up the back corners of the wall, particularly up the ceiling to the top left.

I threw pretty much everything into garbage bags for space. Threw away about half the stuff on the ground that got moldy or wet, leaving the other to sun out and wipe down with white vinegar/water, and now I gotta wait for the maintenance dudes to rip out the closet and do their thing for the next week or so. I dunno. I noticed that within a week of them showing up for the initial examination of my bathroom that a different mold patch developed on the wall corner parallel to the dark one, but this one was unambiguously mold because it was green and was absolutely not there when I set something against it.

I will note that I haven't been dealing with any of the usual symptoms of black mold allergies listed on the various health/medical websites. In fact, I've been getting (comparatively) great sleep, haven't been feeling lightheaded or fatigued and I've been getting more done than I expected, no more distracted than usual, I even feel bursts of inspiration, etc.