Some Success, but Mercury still has a Good Laugh

I assume that the retrograde Mercury was responsible for a large part of what happened to me tonight. I was busy waiting for the decision from the Rental Board to arrive in the mail. I finally went down and picked up the mail. Yup. There it was. A letter from the Rental Board. With trepidation, I opened the envelope, and extracted the piece of paper inside. It seemed a bit thin for a judgment. I had a bit of trouble reading the French, and then I realized why. What I was reading was not the judgment, but information telling me how a judgment could be appealed. But where was the judgment? I checked the torn envelope I had already thrown into the wastepaper basket, but there was nothing else in it. It appeared to me that they had mailed me the judgment letter without including the judgment itself.

Putting it all down to more garbage to deal with being caused by Mercury being retrograde, I decided that I would make myself a cup of coffee, and then write a blog entry about the situation. It was at that point that I noticed something weird about the stuff on the desk where I dumped the mail. I noticed the back of a staple which was holding several sheets of paper together. There should not have been anything like that in that spot. I checked the sheets of paper, and sure enough, there it was! The judgment! I somehow had managed to remove it from the envelope without even being aware of doing so.

I read the judgment, and found that I had had some success. The judgment of November 27 had been revoked, and a new hearing was ordered to be held. So it looks like I won't get dumped into the streets in the middle of winter no matter what else happens.

So I guess at least it ended well - at least for now.

A decision, but what was it?

A hearing was held at the Rental Board on January 8. The subject was whether or not the judgment of the first hearing about whether or not I should be evicted from my apartment should be revoked, on the grounds that I never received notification about the hearing. At the end of the hearing, everyone was told that a judgment would be sent by mail, and that it could take up to three months.

After the hearing had taken place, I learned that it was possible to go to the website of the Rental Board (Regie du Logement) and find out the decision that way, rather than relying only on the mail. So for the past week, almost every day, I checked the website. Tonight, the website finally said that a decision had been reached, and that the decision had been mailed out to the concerned parties today. However, when I tried to find out what the decision was, the website said that the decision was unavailable and would soon be posted. So I'm none the wiser as to what the decision is. Which makes it impossible for me to plot a course of action, since the activities involved in preparing for a new trial are of course completely different than those involved in moving out either within 30 or maybe only within 10 days.

This is the type of thing which makes one wish for a revolution that will topple everything once and for all.