April 2010

Come senators, congressmen please heed the call

- by admin

I'm alive guys, don't worry.

I'll level with you... I'm stressed as all hell. So far I've been fucked out of two apartments due to circumstances beyond my control, and I'm terrified I'm going to lose another (super cheap) one tomorrow. I've been feeling physically sick lately and have lost more sleep than I should have. This has been so unbelievably stressful.

The scoop? The first girl fucked off on me. I found an awesome place and set up a time for her to come by... and she emailed and told me she'd already found a place by herself. Fuck. Then the guy who was going to replace her, though super nice and probably cool to live with, had bad rental history that he either wasn't aware of or didn't tell me about. I lost the place because while my application checked out, his didn't.

So what to do? I found a (more reliable) friend/roommate who is totally down with whatever I feel like going with because he's barely in town anyway. I figured things were set in motion and applied for a cool suite... but got fucked out of it because apparently Sussex Realty will only rent to people who have successfully subletted their current apartments. Which, in my opinion, is bullshit. Why would I sublet my current place until I know I have somewhere else to live? Nobody I've ever known has heard that before, nor has the lady in my office who used to work for a rental agency checking out applications. But that's besides the point.

The guy gave me 24hrs to sublet my place so I spent this past Monday showing it to six different people and there was an application being processed for my suite by 9am the following morning. So, within 24hrs. "Success", thought I. But no, apparently the asshole guy decided that having a sublet in the process wasn't enough (though getting an application processed in a day is apparently impossible) and dropped my application so I lost the place. So I spent Tuesday night running around like a chicken with my head cut off, showing my place again (just to be on the safe side) and running a new application for a place. Unfortunately it's with the same company, they seem to own almost all of downtown. Fuck.

Thursday I spoke with a woman at my rental agency (Globe, who have always been awesome) and she basically flipped out when I told her how I was getting jerked around by Sussex, and told me to have the jerk I was dealing with call her and she would tell him that what he was doing was garbage, they "they play nice with Sussex, so Sussex should play nice with them", and that hopefully I wouldn't lose this apartment to another situation beyond my control (the sublet application for my suite is still being processed).

So. That's where I am. I've been in a constant state of stress for the past few weeks dealing with this, and was really not sure how I felt about writing about it here. Was it too personal? Was I just being whiny? But fuck it, I don't care, this is bullshit and I have tomorrow off from work so I am going to do a lot of calling between my rental agency and Sussex, and hopefully I won't lose this place, too.

I just need to find somewhere to live, and I know the good suites are out there because I've found (and been fucked over on) a few of them now. I need this to be over, I need a break.

Here's some shots from a house party thrown by one of the coolest new people I know, Owen. It was really nice to get out and chill with some new (and old) peeps and for a few hours stop worrying about all this nonsense.
Most rad-assed wine bottle ever!

Here's a top for you first-time party goers (or people new to a new scene/party, like I was) bring a really interesting bottle. It's an amazing conversation starter and I got way more in mixed drinks in return for sips of the (surprisingly tasty) wine than I gave away.
Success!
Ty and Reegan's new meme together is the "Reegan & Ty Mouthswap" which is exactly what it sounds like... I'll post some up here sometime if I remember.
OWEN.
Host supreme and all-around cool guy, I was very impressed by how much I managed to impress him in the few hours since we'd met; nothing boosts the ego like new people exclaiming how cool you are.
Ascot-making!
Samerz scarves.
Ty's all into hipster shirts now but we need more places to buy them On The Cheap.
Preferably anything with modes of transportation, architecture, or vector art.
None of this "skull and roses with swords and snakes" garbage.
I occurs to me that I have a lot I haven't shared on here in a while, and I think I need to start changing that. I complain a lot about how I don't write on here like I used to, but don't do anything about it. I've got to do something about that.

The times they are a-changin'.
 

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