"He is the Chairman of the Housing sub-committee" - "Snogging sub-committee, more like..."
Tsch, stress. Whew, a stressing week this has been. The last few days have been centered around the possibility of moving. To re-capture: I get five offers for a student flat. If I refuse all five offers, my registration will be cancelled. The first offer was for a place in a street named something with Raven, that was too small for the price, and too far from where I wanted to be. The second offer was a place in the center, I never wanted. Third offer was another for that Raven street thing. So the first three offers I didn't want. And the two final offers where for places I never requested. Those two where for two flats in the same street, called "The Milky Hat" (grotesque name!). After my last update, I went down there to find the place, but didn't find it. It was a long walk back and forth, and when I got back, I was so tired, so I decided to go to bed. I was supposed to do kitchen duties for the shared kitchen here, but I'd do it early in the morning.
Normally the duties should be finished at midnight between Monday and Tuesday. I got up, and started at 5:50 am Tuesday morning, and at 7:30 am I was done, except for that the laundromat didn't open until 7 am, so I wasn't done washing tea towels, and I hadn't bought the things for the kitchen, as the store hadn't opened yet. I then got myself a little rest, got the towels done, went to the office to get trash bags, and went to the store to buy salt, pepper, wrapping paper, tea kettle, all that stuff. And hoped that no one would notice that I was finished too late.
I have also been sleeping so much lately. Maybe it's due to the heavy amount of walking. My feets are completely sore, and I have gotten wounds on both feet that hurts when I walk, and of course the staph infection in my legs always makes me dread walking for over 30 minutes. It was also at that time, that I got the second offer for a The Milky Hat flat. So I now had to take either of them, to avoid my application to be cancelled.
The next day I caled the place that offered the flat in the center of time, and said I refused it. I asked that, since I never wanted this flat at all, then if I could avoid it being counted among the five offers I will be offered, so I could get an extra offer. But I couldn't. I then succeded in finding the The Milky Hat. And found the two places I had been offered. They are located between two big roads, and one could always hear the cars, the entire concept was a mixture of big and small flats, so I would be stuck between two huge flats (most likely people with children). I would get a small garden though. I wasn't inside any of the flats. But it looked ok. But I was still so nervous about it all, and felt quite alone and lost about everything. I can't really explain the nervousity about all this. Also moving all my things from one place to the other seems like an impossible task. I had thought of getting a cart from a shopping mall, and then take my possesions one by one in thecart back and forth. But it would take 50 minutes to go there, so 100 minutes to go back and forth once. And I would need to do it 30 times (and that's not including my big furniture, which I would rent a moving van for, when all the other stuff is moved) and my legs and feet can't handle that in their current state.
I was at the university, and would print out the information I had gotten about the second offer at The Milky Hat (which - to me - had a slight better location than the first one), but the computer room was occupied. But I did get documentation that I was a student there, which I would need, if I apply for either of the two flats. One problem with all this, is that I didn't get any meassurements for the flats. I don't know how big the room is with the kitchen, how big the entrance hall or the bathroom is. The entire flat is listed to be 29 square metres, which is good. But the flats from the Raven street was listed as 37 square metres, but all the rooms combined is just 25 square metres, the rest is walls and the room for all people. So I really wanted to know, how big my place would be actually. So I went to the owners, but they didn't know (which I find upsetting), and asked me to call the janitor. I then had a class at the university, and then got the offer printed out, so I had that, if I should make the application. When I got back home, Sevi made a surprise return on the internet, first time we got to chat for almost three weeks. She was rather patient while I explained the entire moving situation (she had of course heard nothing at all about it until then), but it was good to talk with her again.
Today I called the janitor about an hour ago. He didn't have the meassurements either. This really annoys me greatly. I have huge other things to be concerned about, but I spend all my days on this, because people doesn't know what they should know. IF I don't get the meassurements, I will have to refuse the flats, which means that this huge heap of work, and stressing constantly for 8 days, have been in vain. Which especially annoying, since I am so behind on my university assignment. I learned I don't have to deliver it until early January, so I still have some time to do it. But the last week I have done none, because I've had no time. So all this really annoys me, and stresses me out, to a degree which I can't decribe. Well, I have a class, must be off.