My cousin is a landlord who owns a bunch of properties in our little podunk hometown. He says he gives the security deposit back unless the damage is more than would be fixed by what they normally do between renters. They deep-clean, and fill in nailholes and re-paint, and replace the carpet, anyway. After he told me that, I quit fretting about leaving apartments pristine, and I've always gotten my deposit back.

Our first university apartment....whoa. We made the mistake of trying to clean a splash on the wall near the stove and had to scrub all the walls, as it soon became apparent that the room had originally been white, not beige.

My roommates have tended to be very unconcerned with dirt--in university there were cats they didn't clean up after properly, and when I was in MI my roomies would rather put 2 dirty dishes back into the dishwasher that had just finished running and run it again, rewashing all the STILL PERFECTLY CLEAN dishes they were too lazy to remove. Which, I guess, was better than letting the dirty stuff pile up in the sink. Except not so good for the environment or utility bills.

I got charged once for not vacuuming out the window sills. That's when I figured out that It was arbitrary. so I just did what I felt was reasonable.

I totally feel that anyone here could have written a better MCSL essay than that one.

hey erikaj! - have things gotten any better w/your person?

I crave Greek food. My stomach has been being very willful these past few days. Either no food at all, or just the one specific thing. I hope it switches to Mexican by lunchtime, because I think that's all it's going to get. Besides, I had a Greek cheeseburger (basically feta insteada chedda) yesterday. With the loveliest steak fries. I love a big fat slice of potato fried up nice to the outside is crisp and the inside is hot and soft.

I too have been craving Greek food. We had Doner kabobs last week or the week before and the level onion served upset my tummy. And yet? Still want Greek food. Sadly there is no Greek food to be had.

feta insteada chedda

Heh. Mmm. Love Greek food. I was just thinking how it's too bad we don't have better ethnic food in the area, and Greek is one of the things I miss. That and Polish.

I upset my stomach by eating roast chicken at the Halloween party, inbetween drinks and jello shots (woke up sans headache as is usual now after a night drinking). Then I discovered whoever had brought them had lined the bottom of the pan with pita bread, and that was insanely delicious but it really didn't need to be mixed with the vodka/Red Bulls.

I think I'm forgiven today, but the jury isn't back in until after lunch.

eta:

That and Polish.

I've eaten Polish once, and a friend turned to me, gestured at the plate and said "Isn't this why they left Poland?" It's about the only cuisine I've written off in majority. Most everything else has something I like or love. Don't even want to try again with Polish food.

The SO made these incredible jalapeno burgers last night. I thought we'd be paying for them later, but no.