2006-07-13

on to better things

I'm going to go pick up my keys to my new place this afternoon, so I'm excited. I think I will really like living there--and if I don't, once I get a permanent job, I will move. So life is good. It is especially good when I consider some of the places that I saw that I didn't take:

1. Mountainview, $600. Tiny room in a 3 brm, 2 bath house shared with three bartenders and a coctail waitress. When I told him that I had an indoor cat, he said that they kept all their windows and doors open because the place got too hot. And they didn't have screens, which would be something I would have to consider. They did have a foozball table and weight set in the backyard, so that was a plus.

2. Sunnyvale, $650. Tiny room in a 2 bdrm, 1.5 bath townhouse shared with one softwear engineer. Wrote me a nice email saying that he liked cats. He seemed like a decent guy, but he had no furniture. Instead of a couch in the living room, he had a materass on the floor in front of the tv. I said I would move in, since it seemed like it would be workable, but that we would need an actual couch. He said ok then backed out three days later when the landlords let him know that cats were absolutely forbidden. I am probably better off for the fact.

3. Mountainview, $600. Tiny room in three bedroom house with guy who runs a pool maintanance company. He had two less-than-tidy dogs that he trained for dog shows around the country. He explained to me that it was an extremely satisfying hobby. Because said dogs liked to "play" with cats, I said it wouldn't work out. Also little furniture--just a leather couch and a giganitic TV. The backyard was decent size, but unfortunately the back of it was dominated by a 30 foot high sound wall that separated us from the freeway. He claimed that he loved it because the white noise from the cars lulled him to sleep at night. I was unconvinced.

Granted, the room that I am taking in SJ is tiny too, but it is only $475. These are the two that I escaped from seeing the next day:

1. Mountainview, $600. The location seemed pretty good--better than the others that I had seen. When I called to make an appointment, he lets me know that he is a chef in his 40s, which would usually be something that one would mention in their ad, but I figured I would be open-minded. That and I couldn't figure out a way to say, "I don't want to live with someone so old," without being really rude. I immediately reget making that appointment when he starts talking about "being on a spiritual path." His train comes, so I hung up, figuring that he was done. Apparently not: he calls back to tell me more about his spiritual path, the rudeness of his current rooommate (who doesn't foster an "open environment") and that, although he loves cats, indoor cats actually have more dander than ones that go outside, which might affect his allergies, and thus might be an issue. So he was wierd, and I would have cancelled the next morning even had I not found somewhere else.

2. $550, Mountainview. Share two bdrm appartment with 32 year old woman and her cat. She called at an inopportune time and then wouldn't get off the phone. She just kept talking in her perky little voice that was already driving me nuts. She told me all about her cat (her "baby"--which seemed vaguely sad to me) and went on and on about how her current roommate was a slob who left dishes in the sink for two weeks at a time. I said that I was clean enough. I told her to leave me directions on my voicemail because I didn't have a pen. When she called me back, she called me "Mon" in a sing-song voice, which is so not cute.

xanthium at 12:36 p.m.

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