Diving for Sunken Treasure

would be much more fun than apartment hunting.

well at least I don't have a subprime mortgage

Actually it's not that bad, I'm just being ornery. I'm averaging meeting one prospective roomate a day.

It usually goes something like this

'Hi" awkward too gripy handshake

"oh Hi" uncomfortableness ensues

"ummm so this is the umm place...."

"oh wow"

I'm finding myself saying a whole lot of wows, when I mean the exact opposite of wow. There should be some kind of exclamation to describe benign acknowledgment that something exists, yet complete ambivalence about its existence, with a touch of reluctance to dwell upon it further. I would use it when prospective roomatee points out that, for example, the walls are brown, the trim is white.

"here's the bathroom"

"wow"

O RLY? Wow? you have bathroom? Can i poop in it? Yes? FAB, here's first month plus security.

Today I emailed a bunch of people, received a phone call from someone who's name, as far as I can tell, was Nir...

He spelled it for me, and of course once someone spells it, you can't keep asking cause if you've had to have them spell it you've already asked for a repeat too many times.

I'm considering not going to see this place because I'm so freaked out about having to call the guy back using what could be a made up word for a vaguely Norwegian fantasy land that I think is his name and looking like a retard.

"uhhh is NIIIIIIR there?"

"No re-re, NO APARTMENT FOR YOU!!"

Also, I reviewed the post I responded to in order to find reasons to justify not calling Nog back and i found a good one. First line of the posting:

"Hello all you beautiful people!"

nuff said.

But I don't want to give out the impression that I am am dragging my feet. I've gone to see quite a few places and few very unhappy Polish broker ladies. I suppose that commiseration isn't really what you go to a broker for, but I have to say, I appreciated the dewy downcast eyes of Sriniska when I gave her my price bracket.

"ohhhh (ever so softly) nooooooo, for you we have nawting"

"but please, take my card, i willll calllll yuew"

Hug me Svitlana.