When I Was Five, the Dream Was Still Alive

[ase]

Yesterday afternoon I looked at an apartment. I called after work to seize the lease, and it was already gone to someone who'd called Sunday night. This will teach me to try to talk to the roommates before telling the landlord I want the place!

Today's coping mechanisms are all about looking for the bright side. Maybe something better will turn up. I mean, I forgot my lunch, and work had pizza today. There's a lesson there. Oh! Speaking of joy: I have a car for the next 2 1/2 weeks. And 105.9 has switched from "smooth jazz" (elevator music) to classic rock. So instead of Kenny G, I get the Beach Boys. There's a lost piece of my childhood that makes me smile every time I remember it's gone forever.

This week I'm working on musical mix-and-match. Clocks and Laika are keepers. Janis Joplin will also be making an appearance singing a song of great social and political import. Muse goes in a different mix, except maybe for Starlight.

More room-hunting: can I deal with an hour-long commute? (Not again.) Am I "420-friendly"? (Oh heck no! Not near my clean work clothes!) Do I want the third room in a bachelor pad? (Only if I get my own bathroom.) Craigslist has more than 500 ads for the greater DC metro area just for Monday, plus the Post ads; someone's got to have something for me.

Comments

[limnrix.livejournal.com]

haha, anyone who actually mentions "420-friendly" in an ad is clearly a complete stoner who will just steal your food and never clean up and be way worse than current roomie. Usually I don't consider usage a bad thing, but requesting that other roomies be stoners, uh, yeah.

[ase.livejournal.com]

Basically yeah. Nothing I need to be involved with.

[tessfawcett.livejournal.com]

I would advise that you continue to talk to the roommates before seizing the lease. At the very least, don't sign anything until you've talked to them!

[ase.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was the idea. Then the person who had expressed interest flaked and I got the place anyway. My future roomies seem like friendly young professionals with their own lives, so living with them should be okay.

[filkferengi]

Woot! Also, yay!