the most ghetto bed in pittsburgh

and i have it. that's right people. just another bridget jones moment to add to the list.

last night i was preparing to teach at the threenails gathering and painting. you see this bed i have, it's been lugged from move to move. from alder street to the kanes for a brief stay in their old basement to a brief stay in their new basement to woodwell street. i've put my sweat into assembling and disassembling and reassembling this thing, of course always falling ironically on the hottest day of the year. but in the moves i lost two key pieces to the bed, they went from the middle beam across the frame to the floor. so, when putting it back together at woodwell, i replaced the missing pieces with bricks. it worked. well yesterday in an effort to rearrange i moved my bed, and failed to remember the bricks. the beam must have supported my weight for a little while but i went to the kitchen and came back and plopped on my bed.

CRACK!

the middle beam split down the center.

so what did you do? you ask. well good question. i took the mattress off my bed last night, strategically replaced the bricks at the points where the beam cracked, put my mattress back on, and went to sleep, hoping i didn't fall through in the middle of the night.

here's to being poor and resourceful. anyone got a bed they're not using?