sometimes life just works your way

We found an apartment!

We looked at two places this afternoon. The first was OK. No central air, but it was spacious and had all kinds of vintage details. But the bathroom was seriously weird–right by the front door, and no bigger than a postage stamp. Erm. The second wasn’t as spacious, but had central air, heat, and a big, beautiful bathroom.

We rented the second one. We have a whole floor of a building with an apartment above us and below us. We have hardwood floors. We have a spacious kitchen (though with marginal counter space…sigh). We have a spacious bedroom with a deep closet. We have a second bedroom, suitable for a desk (and possibly a futon. Possibly). We have a bay window and a decorative fireplace and an enclosed porch and plenty of storage. Mr. Angst looked at me after ten minutes there and said, “I think we should take it. Now.” So we did.

Notably, the landlord wasn’t even put off by our student status. Turns out, he owns another building where some classmates of mine live. Wadda ya know? SOME landlords LIKE law students as tenants.

The apartment hunt, my friends, is over. And it feels SO GOOD.

it's about DAMN TIME

Our apartment building FINALLY turned on the air conditioning. Yes, yes, I know it was only 62 degrees yesterday, but the sun burns into our apartment all afternoon, making it a good 15 degrees hotter than the outside. Nothing is worse than walking in the door to your sauna/apartment after a hot walk home, lugging bags. And today…today it’s over 70, with no more coolfronts in the future.

So, YAY, they turned the AC on. BOO, however, for them turning it on at the least efficient time possible–4:00 pm. Right when the aforementioned afternoon sun is aforementionedly burning into our apartment. It’s OK, though. We have to go look at a couple of apartments in a bit anyway, so hopefully when we get back, things’ll have cooled off in here.