Saying good-bye never gets easier, although after almost a year we've had plenty of practice. I've been and gone four times now, and I still feel sad ( Read more... )

So I signed my lease and sent it off today; God alone knows when it will get there, hopefully on Monday or so, as that is 25 August and the electric company needs 3 days' notice before they turn on the electricity. I hope they accept my application. I mean, technically, it wasn't a lie--when I signed it, I was employed. That all changes at 5:00 p.m ( Read more... )

MY LEASE CAME TODAY!!!!

MY LEASE CAME TODAY!!!!

MY LEASE CAME TODAY!!!!

MY LEASE CAME TODAY!!!!

OMG AM REAL ADULT NOW

...Also, I am so totally loving The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen. I was halfway tempted to fault it for insufficient Hideyoshi, but the focus is on what happened in the Tokugawa period and after, not on the ( Read more... )

The apartment complex did mail my lease--it just hasn't arrived yet. She said to give her a call if it didn't show up by tomorrow and she would fax it, and not to worry as there's a hold on the apartment and it's not going to get cut away from me. ThankyouZeus ( Read more... )

My lease didn't come today. I need to call the apartment complex tomorrow and tell them that I want that apartment and I want that lease. It can be faxed to the office. I'm scared shitless here. I know there's a hold on the apartment (i.e., it's MINE unless I tell them I don't want it, which I won't do), but it's a verbal hold and there's nothing ( Read more... )

My apartment is so totally going to be the shit.

Yeah, "my apartment". I got the call this morning. It's not one of the ones I had originally looked at, but it's owned by the same leasing company, and it's actually nicer than the first one. It's somewhat bigger. There's a pool (w00t!) and on-site laundry (gone forever are the days of eating crap ( Read more... )

I paid my tuition bill today. Ouch. I'm not getting paid for another week. I need to write to Dad and tell him to get that damn check in the mail. ("Send it, and send it damn quick," in the words of an enterprising landlady of Harlem in the 1920s ( Read more... )

So I got into Bloomington at about 11:00 yesterday morning; the trip there was without incident. The trip in was very spiritual for me, in a bizarre way; it was a beautiful day, and a lot of the time I was on the state roads and the interstate, away from settled life (although I did go through Jasper and Huntingburg and Loogootee). Away from people ( Read more... )