then she appeared

The grand total was 96 books destroyed. I am a little relieved, a lot cranky. I was as lucky as I could have hoped — of the 11 boxes that were soaked, one was filled with PC Magazine back issues, one was my dishes, one was stuff from grad school, and the rest were books.

The list:



Fiction: 39
Non-Fiction: 47
Anthology: 10

There was some serious crap in there (and even some high school textbooks like I hoped), but a few things that I will sorely miss. I'll have to figure out what I want to replace soon. For now I'm just happy that I've finished all the grunt work. I have to look at my insurance policy now and see how to file a claim. I got the guy at the unit to give me a free month's rent, and I also got him to give the new unit (10x20) for the same price as the old (10x12) — a $77 per month discount.

Things I learned: Always have renter's insurance. And never put books in boxes vertically — they act like sponges and ruin all the ones horizontally around them if they get wet. I almost never do that, figuring that it might ruin the spine, but sometimes you have weird space leftover and it's hard to resist.