Yes, I’m pre­emp­tively nam­ing the apart­ment Joe M and I just got, after a frus­trat­ing search of over a month. This place is pretty nice. It’s actu­ally an in-​law unit built into a con­verted garage, but that’s about par for the course for the price range we were look­ing at. The bed­rooms are decent size. We have a liv­ing room, which is a step above sev­eral other places we looked at (which is really nice, so we can enter­tain guests). Also, the loca­tion is great — we’re two blocks from the beach and right on the L line.

We’re gonna go sign some papers and make things offi­cial today before we head to the Hal­loween mad­ness. Already set up a Com­cast install for tomor­row morn­ing so we have inter­net ASAP, and I’ll prob­a­bly start mov­ing stuff tomor­row, too. Hope­fully, the place won’t look like this any­time soon -

(from Ulises Fari­nas.)