
The first week of September was in full swing with demolition, carpentry, putty, and painting work, and I was barely holding onto my stamina and mental fortitude. As a woman handling both recruitment and supervision alone, the painters were completely unreasonable. That morning, they mixed the Dunn-Edwards paint I had carefully selected with Jeebi-pyo paint to create a color they didn't care for, and applied it as they pleased, causing my mental state to crash into a perfectly standing bus.