Isn't there a little closet, or dead space, or what have you (I must have misremembered you calling it a storage space) where the landlord is always working (maybe on that roof problem that never goes away)?

Oh, yeah. That. It's my "office," part of my room. We use it for storage. It's kind of obvious, though, if we leave stuff there.

Oh, PS Emily: Once you live in CA and have bought a car and are a teacher, you can drive cross-country next summer too see people. THAT sounds fun.

Well, yes, but then I'll have to drive back as well. Which is fine, and I hope I'll have time to do that. I just thought that this was my window, what with not having a job and needing to get to the other side of the country, and it turns out the window's too small. So I'll hope that next summer will have a free space in it (ooh! maybe Pennsic!).

When did Connie Chung go batshit insane: [link]

No. Really.

Every time I've ever seen a clip from that program, it's made her look CRAZY. This is just the poorly sung icing on the cake.

Hunters respond to stress by sleeping? I didn't know I was a predator! Okay, maybe I did.

So if I throw a blanket over the cat carrier, will the howling creature inside go to sleep? That would be really really useful.

The towel over the carrier really helped when I drove the cats up here from LA. I was dreading the trip, but they ended up not making much noise at all.

It's just that that means putting my cat on an airplane (shudder), shipping all my stuff, and condensing all the stuff I absolutely positively must have for my first week or so in a new state and a new job into a few suitcases.

Coming in way late, but as someone who just did this:

Do get kitty Valium and a soft-sided carrier. Damien was quite well-behaved, but the Valium made him not!yowl, which made the flight attendants happy and any potential cat-allergic people unaware of the feline in their midst.

Considering CA's insane vehicle standards (emmisions, tax, etc.), you're best off buying here.

Re: Shipping; you could throw yourself on the mercy of one of the space-having Bayistas - Deb offered to store my stuff when I moved here, which turned out to be unnecessary.

Re: crap that you'll need for the first few weeks; again, the Bayistas are quite generous. I still have Hec & JZ's wee TV/VCR thingy & bunches of tapes, Lee's inflatable bed, and Deb's corded drill. (We really need to arrange transfers, y'all.)

So. No worries. We take care of our own, remember.

Bathing suit has been acquired. As it turned out, both Bath & Body Works and The Body Shop were having sales, so I picked up some shower gels. (Never mind that I currently have more than I can use, as I only use them on the weekends, I wanted these)

When did Connie Chung go batshit insane: [link] ?

There is a back story on this. Connie's husband was cheating with one of the interns on this crappy show that failed. So I guess that song was her "fuck off and die world" moment. Hey I worked with a woman whose response to news that her husband was cheating involved firing an actual gun in his general direction. (She didn't hurt him; claimed she never intended to to -just wanted to make him dance.)

Huh. My husband cheated on me with an intern, my response would not involve warbling and writhing on a piano.

More like fireants, restraints and honey on the genitalia.