Life Update, Not in Handy List Form

It's really nice out tonight. It was fucking hot today, but at least that gave me the motivation to change my sheets from the flannel ones to the pretty stripey ones. Mmmm, clean sheets. Cool clean sheets.

the "on a stairway to heaven, what a way to GO" in Lepp's Stand Up is one of my favorite song moments ever.

I've started apartment hunting (for one, not two). I'm restricted a fair amount by dates - I can't get to NC until the end of June when I'll be down there for orientation. And I can't move until August.

I have found three that I like, though. All under $300/mp w/o utilities, two which will allow pets, two within walking distance of UNCA. One guy's gotten back to me, the place is really cute.

Of course, all three places are available June 1. Which means paying for two months of rent I'm not going to use (although, if the place is mine, it means I can bring some shit down in June when I go for orientation, which'll make moving in August easier). I'd rather pay for the extra months at < $300 than end up with a $400+ rent by waiting...but who knows.

I need to talk to the parents, though, because I won't have deposit money by June 1 so they'll have to make the deposit for me, either with the promise to pay them back or as a gift or whatever.

It presents a few other problems, too. But right now I think the money is the big one. The one guy I've talked to so far is willing to rent to me sight unseen as long as we talk on the phone, which is good because otherwise he's coming to Vermont to see me :D. That place has one more tenant, and yeah I would like to meet her, but I've gotta work with my limitations here.

The guy who got back to me is actually my third choice - the other two are the ones that allow pets, are within walking distance of UNCA, and one of them mentioned LGBT-friendly while the other mentioned gay/gay-friendly. Plus, one's $250, while the guy I've been talking to is $275. The third is $285.

So yeah. Shall discuss it with the parents, and maybe I'll be lucky enough to know my housing situation before I'm even out of JWU.

I'm gonna be buried this weekend. I have my Mondrian paper to write, and that has to be done by Monday so I can take the presentation to the printer's. So tomorrow will be research paper day. I have my Java final to do, and that'll probably eat my soul Saturday and Sunday. And then I have some shit to do for Newswriting, so that and the printer trip will take up Monday.

Plus I have to get packed. Going home Thursday! Yay. No more Jaaaaaywoooooo.

The AU is still eating my brain. 9700 words (ish) and it's slowing down. I've got a few more scenes pretty firmly entrenched in my head that need to get down...it's close to done. Yay.

Although I wish I'd gotten a longer fic out of it. Maybe it'll surprise me, but I doubt it'll top 15,000. Which certainly isn't bad, I'd just like to write something longer.

Maybe I'll fish out Rescuer when I'm home and get that bitch done.

This was longer than I meant it to be. Awesome. I'ma go write.