My Living Situation

Hav­ing a very slow day today. Com­cast gave me an appoint­ment for 6 – 8 AM to come and fix the cable inter­net. Guy showed up at 7:30 and took over an hour to work. Oh, and he swapped the Motorola Surf­board we got with the Self-​Install Kit for some crappy RCA cable modem.

Any­way… let me tell you all about my liv­ing situation.

You see, it all started two weeks ago… Drama House parted ways, and since Peggy was in New Zealand for her ISV thing, and Drew was back in San Jose for his grandmother’s funeral, and Joe and Ian had sum­mer school shit to take care of, it was basi­cally just Vince, Les­ley, and me clean­ing up. Oh, and we thought that we would have a two-​hour over­lap since we were a trans­fer. (Move into the new place at 5 PM on the 31^st, and not have to be out until 7 PM from the old place.) I double-​checked on the 30^th, and found out we had to be out by 8 AM. So the three of us pulled an all-​nighter. Fun!

Since our stuff was packed into our cars to the point where we could no longer get into the dri­vers’ seats, we just chilled in the lounge all day. Will started bring­ing stuff over from his place, and we just piled it up in the cor­ner of the lounge. 4:30 came around and we headed over to the office to fin­ish up the paper­work and pick up our keys. Only, they told us the let­ter that they had sent us was a typo. Accord­ing to their inter­nal doc­u­ments, we weren’t sched­uled to move in until 5 PM on the 1^st. They were nowhere close to being done clean­ing the place for us. Awesome!

They told us to come back in a cou­ple hours, but still no luck. Even­tu­ally, we real­ized we were screwed for the day, so we called around for a place to crash. Paul saved us by pick­ing us up in Claire’s big mini­van and tak­ing us back to his place to shower and eat. Avalon felt bad, so they sent us a cou­ple of piz­zas. They also called in the mid­dle of the night to let us know they worked through the night and were done, and we could come get our keys now. We told them we’d be there in the morning.

So we did our walk-​through in a hurry to move in. Will actu­ally got all his stuff in really fast… his room looked lived-​in before that night. But then, he dis­cov­ered a prob­lem… appar­ently, the pre­vi­ous res­i­dents had a dog or some­thing. (We could see the gnaw-​marks on the door­frame from when it had to go out­side.) Well, Will was extremely aller­gic and basi­cally would die if he spent the night. Super!

So, Will went to the office and bitched them out. They let us use Sor­rento 113 and a garage to tem­porar­ily move our stuff out, and they would change the car­pets and do a more thor­ough clean­ing before we move back in. They were flex­i­ble with the sched­ule, so Will told them we’d do it after the 15^th, so every­one could be done with sum­mer school.

Yep… for the last two weeks, I’ve been liv­ing packed since I’ll have to move all my stuff out and back in again. I’m going back to Davis this week­end to do the mov­ing, and hope­fully this time, it’ll be for good. :crosses fingers:

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