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brokenrecord__ It... kind of looks a lot like my last layout. Well, the header. I mean, I like it more than my last header, but... yeah. I wanted a new layout because my last one was from February of 2008 and I've never had a layout that long and I was getting really tired of it, but... now I kind of realized why it's been so long: I've had absolutely no inspiration for making headers. And I fiddled around with stuff for hours, but I still came out with this. Oh well. Maybe over the summer I'll try to be more creative. But I wanted to get this done yesterday, so there it is. I changed the actual layout of the page, too, and I definitely like that much more. I had been using the same style (just modifying the colors and header) for years, too, and I needed a change. This one may or may not also last over a year. I still want to fiddle around with the text and colors a little, but I probably won't do that until later.
I went to see the apartment on Thursday. It's not ideal, but it'd definitely work. It's fairly small, but doable. It has a small living room, very very small kitchen area, bathroom, and bedroom that is definitely larger than my room here at school. It's about a 10 minute walk from the dorms, which are about a 5-10 minute walk from class, so 15-20 min from class overall. Which is doable now when it's in the 40s/50s, but in January/February when it's -30 or blizzarding or whatever, I don't know if I'll be able to deal with it. There's laundry downstairs which is nice (one or two of the places I looked at online was like "There's laundry a short two blocks away!" which... no. Not when it might be snowing/raining/freezing. Not an option), and it's cheaper than it is here. The rent is reasonable, I think (it's on the low end of other stuff I've seen for one-bedroom apartments here), but you have to hook up and pay for internet yourself, which is a little annoying. It comes unfurnished except for, like, the refrigerator, which means I'd have to do a lot of furniture shopping come September (which would be true of most apartments, I would think, unless I was subletting). The major plus is that she's not leaving until her lease is up in August, so I won't be paying for an apartment I'm not living in over the summer or have to find a subletter. Um, what else? I don't know, it's a nice place in a nice neighborhood. It's not my idea of a perfect apartment, but there are no like... deal-breakers. I don't have it yet, of course; I have to contact the landlord and tell him I'm interested and apply and all that. I'm not sure if I'm going to contact him now, or if I'm going to wait until my parents come and we can look at some apartments first and then I can decide what will be best. I'm just afraid at that point someone might have taken it already. I don't know if that's incredibly likely, but it is a concern. We'll see, I guess. I don't have to decide this second.
We got Good Friday off this year for some reason (I don't remember ever getting it off in high school, and I definitely didn't get it off last year here) so I've been enjoying a nice three-day weekend. It feels like Sunday now, though, so I'm starting to get anxious/nervous about all the stuff I have to do this weekend (none of which I looked at yesterday), but luckily I have 2 days to do everything in.
I really want to participate in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
picspammy's challenge this month, but I don't know if I'll have time. Plus, I have like a million things I want to do. I think right now, though, I'm definitely leaning towards a picspam of my favorite Barney/Robin scenes (I know, huge shock, right?). I'm not sure if that totally fits with the challenge, but other people have done stuff similar to that, so I think it'll be ok. I think I'm too indecisive to choose just one favorite scene from a particular show, and if I do just one, I'm going to want to do a bunch more. But we'll see. They always take me forever to do, and next weekend is going to be super busy, so I don't know if I'll get it done in time, and I might lose interest in a week or two.
brokenrecord__ It... kind of looks a lot like my last layout. Well, the header. I mean, I like it more than my last header, but... yeah. I wanted a new layout because my last one was from February of 2008 and I've never had a layout that long and I was getting really tired of it, but... now I kind of realized why it's been so long: I've had absolutely no inspiration for making headers. And I fiddled around with stuff for hours, but I still came out with this. Oh well. Maybe over the summer I'll try to be more creative. But I wanted to get this done yesterday, so there it is. I changed the actual layout of the page, too, and I definitely like that much more. I had been using the same style (just modifying the colors and header) for years, too, and I needed a change. This one may or may not also last over a year. I still want to fiddle around with the text and colors a little, but I probably won't do that until later. I went to see the apartment on Thursday. It's not ideal, but it'd definitely work. It's fairly small, but doable. It has a small living room, very very small kitchen area, bathroom, and bedroom that is definitely larger than my room here at school. It's about a 10 minute walk from the dorms, which are about a 5-10 minute walk from class, so 15-20 min from class overall. Which is doable now when it's in the 40s/50s, but in January/February when it's -30 or blizzarding or whatever, I don't know if I'll be able to deal with it. There's laundry downstairs which is nice (one or two of the places I looked at online was like "There's laundry a short two blocks away!" which... no. Not when it might be snowing/raining/freezing. Not an option), and it's cheaper than it is here. The rent is reasonable, I think (it's on the low end of other stuff I've seen for one-bedroom apartments here), but you have to hook up and pay for internet yourself, which is a little annoying. It comes unfurnished except for, like, the refrigerator, which means I'd have to do a lot of furniture shopping come September (which would be true of most apartments, I would think, unless I was subletting). The major plus is that she's not leaving until her lease is up in August, so I won't be paying for an apartment I'm not living in over the summer or have to find a subletter. Um, what else? I don't know, it's a nice place in a nice neighborhood. It's not my idea of a perfect apartment, but there are no like... deal-breakers. I don't have it yet, of course; I have to contact the landlord and tell him I'm interested and apply and all that. I'm not sure if I'm going to contact him now, or if I'm going to wait until my parents come and we can look at some apartments first and then I can decide what will be best. I'm just afraid at that point someone might have taken it already. I don't know if that's incredibly likely, but it is a concern. We'll see, I guess. I don't have to decide this second.
We got Good Friday off this year for some reason (I don't remember ever getting it off in high school, and I definitely didn't get it off last year here) so I've been enjoying a nice three-day weekend. It feels like Sunday now, though, so I'm starting to get anxious/nervous about all the stuff I have to do this weekend (none of which I looked at yesterday), but luckily I have 2 days to do everything in.
I really want to participate in
picspammy's challenge this month, but I don't know if I'll have time. Plus, I have like a million things I want to do. I think right now, though, I'm definitely leaning towards a picspam of my favorite Barney/Robin scenes (I know, huge shock, right?). I'm not sure if that totally fits with the challenge, but other people have done stuff similar to that, so I think it'll be ok. I think I'm too indecisive to choose just one favorite scene from a particular show, and if I do just one, I'm going to want to do a bunch more. But we'll see. They always take me forever to do, and next weekend is going to be super busy, so I don't know if I'll get it done in time, and I might lose interest in a week or two.
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Date: 2009-04-11 05:50 pm (UTC)Is there a bus or something you can take from the apartment to campus when it's frrrreezing in the winter?
I'd never heard of
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Date: 2009-04-11 05:59 pm (UTC)There's a bus that'll take me like half of the way which seems kind of ridiculous to take. Like, I'd have to walk 5 minutes to the bus, then the bus would take me the rest of the way to where the dorms are (so cutting out about 5 minutes of walking time) and then I'd still have to walk 10 minutes across campus. It's not really worth it. But I can walk part of the way, go inside a store/the Campus Center/whatever for like 5 minutes to warm up and then go the rest of the way.