July 02, 2000
Recuperation
Ok, so I didn't quite sleep for twenty hours, but it was a near thing. I've spent most of today either sleeping or lying around the house. Unpacking? What's that? I slept for a good ten hours last night, and then took another two hour nap today. And for all that, I can tell it won't be long before I'm off to bed again.
So what did I do today? Well, I read (Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, for the second time) and I bugged maintenance to come fix my refrigerator (it turned out it just hadn't been plugged in), and I went out to visit my mom again. I gathered they spent most of the day recuperating as well. We sat around and talked and scarfed on leftovers -- well, I did, at least -- and just generally hung out for a bit while my stepfather took a nap. Since my phone still isn't working, I hopped online briefly to pass word along to my notify list and to a few friends that my online presence is going to be rather scarce until I get my phone.
That's a whole story in and of itself. Suffice to say, the phone company is going to get a major yelling at tomorrow morning. My line was supposed to be installed last Friday, on the 23rd. As I hadn't taken possession of the apartment yet, I'd arranged everything with the complex and with the phone company. No problem. Installation person comes to install the line, goes to the office, gets the key, does the work inside my apartment. Except whoever it was didn't bother to do that, so while I have phone service, it isn't connected in the apartment. Grrr! I wasn't pleased about that at all.
The apartment itself I'm quite pleased with, however. It is, as I've mentioned, quite small, about half the size of the mobile home. However, it's big enough for me and Max. And for the most part, it's big enough for all of my stuff, although I was joking with my mom earlier tonight that I can't get any more books because I don't have room for another bookcase. My building itself was very quiet last night. I consider that to be a good sign. I mean, if it's quiet on the Saturday night of a holiday weekend, it's probably not a big party building. What else... oh, I have an air conditioner, which is fantastic as the temperatures continue to climb around here. The windows are very good sized. For a sublevel apartment, I get an amazing amount of light. Also a good thing. I'll have pictures up as soon as I restore some semblance of order around here. At the rate I'm going now, expect the pictures around Christmas some time. ;-)
For now, I think I'm off to hang up my shower curtain and stretch out for the night again.
Posted by Lisa at July 2, 2000 08:35 PM
