I finally got through to a live person at fair housing. Everything is pretty much as I had figured it was. By buying the property, the new owner also assumes responsibility for the existing lease. The lease is not just between me and the previous owner-- as she attempted to lead me to believe-- but between me and whomever owns the property for the ( Read more... )

Just when I was complaining about the blandness of my daily commute, things suddenly picked up. Tuesday, during an otherwise uneventful train ride, I felt a pounding bass beat. Imagine the bass from Missy's "Pass That Dutch." Being nosy like I am, I looked up from my book and turned down the iPod. A cypher broke out in the middle of the train! It ( Read more... )

Or rather, she kissed me. & then I kissed her back.
      There must be something in the air. First my old high school chum
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In one hour Barack Obama will be speaking on my campus!
(& to think I almost didn't come to campus today)

Finally, the two things that I enjoy most in the world, together at last.
https://www.ohmibod.com/ohmibod.html

Have I mentioned how much I love my new laptop?! I feel as if I have been transported forward in time! Especially since I also made the switch from dial--up to high speed. Can you believe that I was on dial-up all this time? These here internets were becoming almost impossible to read. I don't have all the time in the world for pages to load ( Read more... )

Rumi is one of my favourite (the "u" is for emphasis) poets. "The Guest House" has always been my favourite poem by him. It always gives me comfort whenever the world gets to be a little too much for me.

We found a place out in Long Beach. It's way more than I am used to paying, but it is just (barely) in the range of what we can afford. My second graduate school class begins in 20 minutes. I'm not going to be able to get my gas turned on until the end of the week. As hot as it is I am not so much loving the cold showers. I won't have internet or ( Read more... )

I'm supposed to pick up the U-Haul a week from today, so I should probably get to packing. argh. I do not like the packing, but unfortunately there is no one to pawn it off on.
     Although there are tons of things I could bitch abt right off the top of my head, I'm going to take a page from sholanda's book and list the things that are going well ( Read more... )

Ethnic Studies Commencement was excellent. There were only 16 of us who walked, so it was a really intimate ceremony ( Read more... )