Personal

I put a deposit down on an application for an apartment. Everywhere else in the universe but NYC it works differently. Here you apply for an apartment, and then they see who has the best credit, is willing to pay the most, and is also willing to move in the soonest and that person gets the apartment. Not first come first serve. It is crappy, but I need a place, and it is supply and demand.

I filled out all the information they needed. This included a letter from my work, a W2 from last year, a copy of a recent pay stub, a bank statement, 2 references for credit, copy of my drivers license, and who knows what else. I offered to give them DNA for their records also. I was told all that was enough for the application. Now I am being asked to come back in for some other reason. not sure why, but if isn’t a good reason I am going to go ballistic on these people. I am not that desperate yet where I will put up with this shit forever.

Not sure if Jayson is having better luck going straight to the owners of apartments, vs my dealing with a broker.

I saw 3 more apartments today. I liked 2 of them. The only problem is they were both on the high side. Not too high, but if you inch higher in what you are going to pay, the next thing you know you are paying way more than you originally planned on.

Both apartments were nice. One was a big bigger than the other. But the smaller place was in a much better location. I think I am going to put in an application for the smaller place. I liked the location, and the building was nice.

The third place I went, was none of the above. it was not in a nice area, it was not a great building, and it didn’t have a 24 hour doorman like I requested.

The original buildings I wanted to see today had no openings. They filled up between the time I asked to see them, and the time we were going to go to see them. Oh well.

I am going to think over my choices tonight and call the real estate broker tomorrow. Hopefully the place I finally choose is not yet taken. That seems like it may happen. Stuff moves fast in manhattan in the summer.

Today I pretty much returned to normal activities. I still am a bit stuffed up and coughing, but I went to the pool, and hung out with Jay most of the day. I was feeling well enough to goto outback. I also wasn’t afraid to get close to Morgan. Normally I am petrified to go near her when I am not feeling well, so I must be better.

Friday night I stayed in. I was still feeling sick. I took some more Tylenol PM and tried to goto bed early. Work was a normal kind of busy. Nothing out of the ordinary there.

I am scheduled to visit some apartments Monday afternoon. I hope that I find something. Miguel’s sister is a real estate broker also and I will be calling her if I cannot find something by early next week. I am still optimistic.

This blog entry was written while listening to I Alone from the album “Throwing Copper” by Live

Everyone has them. You have a friend and that friend introduces you to his or her friends. You either get along or you don’t. If you do and you hang out thats great, or not. That is how you meet people. Friends of friends are common. Some of my current friends I have were introduced to me by friends I don’t even see anymore. That is just the way it is. Other people you meet that are “friend of a friend” you only see or talk to when the initial friend is around.

That being said, a friend of a friend of mine called me last night. He never calls me. he is in the later group of only seeing him when I am with the mutual friend. I answer the phone and ask whats up. I get along with this guy so I am nice. He is looking for our mutual friend. I immediately am now pissed. You call me looking for someone else because they aren’t calling you back. How rude is that. Of course he does not even see what he did wrong, so I don’t mention it. I just file it away for future reference.

Am I wrong to think that was rude? I don’t speak to this guy very often and then he calls looking for someone else because he cannot get that person on the phone? And he wanted to talk to my other friend about some stupid thing. it wasn’t even an emergency. of course this guy thought it was an emergency, but what I am I to do? I may be over reacting. I am on cold meds this week. That may be it, yeah…

I am fighting what is currently a moderate cold since Monday. Last night I got Tylenol PM and slept ok. Most of today I was in the hazy after affects of the drug. I was able to work normally, but when I stopped to take a breath I could tell that I had taken sleeping aid’s the night before.

My throat still hurts, and my noise is still a bit stuffed, but I am getting by. John and Jayson want to go drinking tomorrow night. I want to go, but I want to get better. I am TBD for that as of now. The worst part of this cold is that my ears itch. I can’t do anything about that right now. I have learned no more beach on windy not so hot days.

It is June first already. Where has the year gone? I keep thinking 2005 is so far away, but it is only 7 months away.

Today marks the first day that Jayson is full time with us (at work obviously). if you asked me a year ago if I would ever imagine Jayson moving back to NYC and taking a job working for me I would tell you that it was crazy. But that is exactly what happened. I never believed that my company would bring on another more senior guy either. The universe has ways of surprising you.

Now that he is officially moving to New York, he is on the hunt for an apartment. We are both looking for apartments. I hopefully will go looking again this week again. Jayson went today. We are looking in the same areas of the city, but what we want is so totally different it is funny.

I am trying to get in touch with my friend Jeff who lived in a complex near my office. I want his opinion of the place before I go looking. I will continue to track him down tomorrow.

In other news Jim confirmed that he and his wife want to take the scuba class I was talking about. Jay and Cari are maybe’s so we have a few people that can go together. Now all we need is the schedule and pick a date. Gus is still down with a bermuda trip to get our certification dives. I am getting excited about doing this. It will be fun.

My cold continues to bother me. not taking me totally out of commission but I feel like crap. I just bought Tylenol Cold and I am looking for Tylenol PM so I can sleep tonight. The dam CVS by the office had 8 different kinds of Tylenol but didn’t have PM. I may just go out when I get home and get some. I think I will really need it tonight.

Sunday we went to the beach. Jayson, Gretchen, Alison and I went to my parents beach club. It was a fun day. It was nice for the first few hours. we lied out near the ocean and hung out. Then after lunch it got really windy. We still stayed out on the sand for a while. By the time I started chewing the sand I decided I had enough.

We went back to Jayson’s dad’s place for a little while so jay and gretchen could change. They were having a BBQ. From there we went to my place so I could change. After that we were off to the Outback. Mmm, outback. We all stuffed ourselves as is the custom at the outback and called it a night. It was a really fun day…

The downside of this day is I think the wind may have given me a cold. Being out in a bathing suit when it was really windy and cold gave me a soar throat. I am suffering through that now.