Say Yes to the Address

Today’s post will be short but sour because I am still attempting to move. Which reminds me...I moved to Raleigh! (Don't worry Mom, I'm not telling anyone my address. Not even you.)

For what feels like forever (but was actually about 3 months) I have been looking for a new place. How hard could it be? 4 walls, a ceiling, indoor plumbing 24K gold kitchen appliances and Bob Newhart as a doorman. I also need a bathtub. I don't take showers. I just don't have the desire to do anything that I cannot do concurrent with reading a book. If you can tell me how to read a book in the shower, I'll try it. But until then, it's bathtub or bust.

My eccentricities aside, after a long summer of real estate scavenging, last weekend, 1 ram, 1 wolf and whatever the heck I am walked into an apartment. And the punchline is…we’re trying to be adults.

  

First of all…it’s really weird not living with students. Partially because I still feel like a student. I come home and think about how much I don’t want to do homework for a solid 15 minutes before I realize that I don’t have homework anymore. I’m the assigner of homework now. I’ve really moved up in the world. 

Perhaps the most challenging thing about this move is still having no internet and no cable. Moving my furniture up 3 flights of stairs, not having a washing machine, having an hour commute to work, all of those issues seem negligible compared to the complete and utter lack of reality TV in my apartment. We spent an hour in a nearby McDonald’s yesterday using their internet to search for internet providers. Poetic, right? What we’ve discovered so far is that we are really poor but would rather die than live without cable. So we’ve reached an impasse. 

I will leave you with a final story that is pretty much the epitome of our roommate experience thus far. While having quality roommate bonding time in my closet yesterday, we discussed the dynamics of sound in the new apartment. Amanda was concerned and asked if we could hear her friends the night before. Neither of us heard them but we were super excited for her, having friends is a huge accomplishment among my inner circle. It turned out, she meant her Friends not actual friends.