I surprised myself today. I returned the red shiny shelf that I so excitedly bought the other day at IKEA. I found those cheap cubicle shelves at Costco. I decided to get another set of those and forgo the red shiny-ness, at least for the time being ( Read more... )

My first appointment of the day was to go meet someone who was renting a room in a 2 bedroom apartment in the NW/Nob Hill area. It was a yellow and blue house on the corner of 20th and Everett that was built in 1890 and owned by a woman which was unusual at the time. I got there and rang the doorbell and waited. I rang it again. I couldn't be ( Read more... )

I've been keeping a journal in a text editor, so I have more to post than this, but I need to edit it down because a lot of it is very emo-stream-of-consciousness. I'm going to post date the entries to the appropriate date, so they'll eventually appear before this one chronologically ( Read more... )

So the other day I was sitting in World Cup Coffee and Tea and writing the last journal entry that I posted. Because of that I was a little bit late leaving. I'd intended to leave at 4:30, but by the time I was done with all my internet fiddling it was 4:40. I refreshed the craigslist rooms for rent page one last time, perhaps only out of habit ( Read more... )

Yesterday was interesting. I called 3 different numbers from my room search. I talked to one guy who's into natural medicine. His house sounds amazing, but he's not sure when the move in date will be because his current roommate's in the process of buying a house. Could be Sept. 1 but could also be the end of September. So likely it won't be ( Read more... )

I had a really fantastic weekend with my friend Laura. She's up in Tacoma. I talked to her on Friday morning. I threw a few things in a bag and headed up there that same afternoon ( Read more... )