it's official

[chanter1944]

I have a new apartment come early August. Hopefully this one won't be flooded out by stupid students even once, never mind twice. It's on the near west side, and by the sound of things, it's much more likely I'll be living near university faculty or young families (or both) than undergrads. Whew! I've had about enough of ridiculous partying from adjacent buildings or apartments to last me. Call me a complete nerdlady, but I'd had enough of that when *I* was a student! And yes, I've seen the apartment I'll be moving into, so no unpleasant surprises of the structural kind are in store. I finally get a balcony! Reasonable antenna mounts and kitchen garden plants are both absolutely go.

Aaaaand my incoming landlady didn't seem at all opposed to the idea of an ESA (emotional support animal, not European Space Agency, although an interplanetary traveler of a fuzzy would be excellent) kitty cat, so... File that under wishful thinking. The current/will-be-previous tenant has a fantastic female orange tabby of an ESA kitty, encountered when viewing the apartment, and interacting with her (the cat, not the human, I haven't met the human) is what got me wishing. Quoth the landlady: "She made you so happy!" Quoth the Chanter: "I melted, didn't I?" :)

Comments

[muccamukk]

That's great news! I hope that you are able to get a kitty, too. At the very least, she can warn you about the flooding.

[chanter1944]

*laughs!* Better than the last time I discovered being flooded, which involved me standing up from the kitchen counter and stepping straight into a giant lake covering my tile floor. Or the first time, which involved wondering if my niece, who'd just been visiting, had left the faucet running at a trickle before discovering that no, she most assuredly had *not*.

[pauraque]

That's great news! I hope it's everything you're looking for. I know what a pain it can be to try to find quiet housing in a college town.

[chanter1944]

Thank you! You are not kidding about finding quiet housing that isn't also ridiculously overpriced, and probably designed with being overpriced in mind. Bleh. I lucked out, and I know it.

[cactus_rs]

no greater relief than moving into a better living situation, congratulations!!

[chanter1944]

OH so very truuuuue that! I still remember leaving Colorado.

[cmcmck]

Good luck with the move.

We still sometimes wake up screaming! :o)

[chanter1944]

Thank you!

Re screaming: That's different. Around here, there's an excess of drunkenly partying students. Bleh.

[ceitfianna]

Yay for a new apartment! I hope it all works out.

[chanter1944]

Thank you! :) Me too.

[kellan_the_tabby]

oooooooooooo yay new apartment, extra-yay BALCONY, I love those!

[chanter1944]

I've only ever had one once, and that was in Colorado. Great setup, seriously bad situation. The balcony out there was really my space, as my roommate never used it. So I had a couple planters full of kitchen garden herbs and spicy peppers set on the little table someone had put out there.

I am truly looking forward to the upcoming balcony. It'll be entirely mine from the start, for one. There will be a radio antenna for sure, plants for sure, probably a windchime or two, and when the weather is nice, I'm going to skip the air conditioning, open the sliding door but leave the sliding screen in place, and let cross ventilation do its thing. My roommate in Colorado and I were forever in a battle about that; she was one to turn up the AC and have a fan blasting, which froze me.

[kellan_the_tabby]

That sounds LOVELY.