living here is laaaaame. there were plenty of apartments in town when the overprivelegd college students staged their yearly mass exodus to go back to mommy and daddy. but they went fast and my friend and i got screwed over on a nice place. landlords around here are dicks and won't take "well i smoke but very lightly and never inside anyway" for an answer and then begin to lecture you on how smoking is not permitted ANYWHERE NEAR THE BUILDING AND OH HOW THEY CANNOT HAVE SMOKERS LIVING IN THEIR BUILDING. EVER. then i guess those people who sit outside the coffee shop downstairs smoking are a figment of my imagination. and this was over the phone, i never even met the landlord, just the tenant.
living with my family is wearing out my patience. yes, i'm almost 22, now stop kissing me goodnight and peering into my grocery bags and constantly asking me how work and life is going. i have to force myself to go to sleep really early if i want to be left alone for one evening. and now my grandmother is coming up for my birthday. just like every year. i stopped liking you when i was about 14, grandma. i'm not going to spend every birthday ever with my family, going out to restaurants i don't want to be at - i don't even LIKE going out to eat anymore. when i don't have to get up really early for work in the morning, i just put on my pajamas and drink until all i want to do is crawl into bed with a goofy grin on my face. doesn't take much but still, if i want to drink at all i have to WAIT UNTIL MY PARENTS ARE IN BED SO I DON'T GET LECTURED. this is bullshit.
half of the apartments i call for i never even hear back from, and the other half go to people whose sanity probably doesn't hinge on them getting on with their lives.
the funniest part? my dad's never-ending midlife crisis has determined that he wants to move out of the house again, for no real reason this time, thus resulting in high-LARious jokes about "i guess we are competing for apartments, huh huh." fuck you, dad. if i lose an apartment to YOU forget it, i'm quitting everything, kidnapping my dog and my boyfriend (which will make neither of them happy as the dog gets carsick and the boyfriend dislikes the dog) and driving until i find a place that has reasonable housing costs and jobs that pay decent wages. i've heard stories....
now i'm on the road to 4 hours of sleep or less before another day of work. and calling apartments.
right now, life is bullshit.
living with my family is wearing out my patience. yes, i'm almost 22, now stop kissing me goodnight and peering into my grocery bags and constantly asking me how work and life is going. i have to force myself to go to sleep really early if i want to be left alone for one evening. and now my grandmother is coming up for my birthday. just like every year. i stopped liking you when i was about 14, grandma. i'm not going to spend every birthday ever with my family, going out to restaurants i don't want to be at - i don't even LIKE going out to eat anymore. when i don't have to get up really early for work in the morning, i just put on my pajamas and drink until all i want to do is crawl into bed with a goofy grin on my face. doesn't take much but still, if i want to drink at all i have to WAIT UNTIL MY PARENTS ARE IN BED SO I DON'T GET LECTURED. this is bullshit.
half of the apartments i call for i never even hear back from, and the other half go to people whose sanity probably doesn't hinge on them getting on with their lives.
the funniest part? my dad's never-ending midlife crisis has determined that he wants to move out of the house again, for no real reason this time, thus resulting in high-LARious jokes about "i guess we are competing for apartments, huh huh." fuck you, dad. if i lose an apartment to YOU forget it, i'm quitting everything, kidnapping my dog and my boyfriend (which will make neither of them happy as the dog gets carsick and the boyfriend dislikes the dog) and driving until i find a place that has reasonable housing costs and jobs that pay decent wages. i've heard stories....
now i'm on the road to 4 hours of sleep or less before another day of work. and calling apartments.
right now, life is bullshit.
With regards to your comments you left me, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is awesome...I read that in high school and even made a t-shirt for a project I did on it. As for I Am Legend, I've meant to read that for years, but I keep forgetting in lieu of other books that come my way or authors that I get hung up on (like Palahniuk). I've always heard great things about it though.
Take it easy...