And David Blaine got Primo Levi's Auschwitz number tattooed on his own arm. That's all kinds of wrong.
Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Mar 06, 2009 7:35:44 pm PST #9521 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
sarameg - Mar 07, 2009 3:57:59 am PST #9522 of 30000
I'm about to head out. Wish me luck. Or rather, wish me no mind-losing.
Sheryl - Mar 07, 2009 4:36:35 am PST #9523 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
No tatoos for me, thanks. (Among the reasons is that I can't think of any symbol, image or name I'd want on my person forever.)
Theodosia - Mar 07, 2009 4:53:50 am PST #9524 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
sarameg, good luck -- it's best to consider this phase still information-gathering. Enough time to consider what you really want, and what you really don't want to live with, in a house and/or neighborhood really pays off.
Jesse - Mar 07, 2009 5:03:05 am PST #9525 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
When I was trying to move to New York, I had a broker refuse to make an appointment with me because I hadn't seen enough places yet. Which I now see makes sense -- it does take a while to get a sense of what's out there. In short, yes: information gathering.
Theodosia - Mar 07, 2009 5:35:20 am PST #9526 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Yep. (Note that I DID buy the first place that I took a tour of, but there was some hurried touring of Other Properties between the time I saw it and the offering.)
Signs of Impending Springiness here: I just saw a goddamed BEE fly past my window.
beth b - Mar 07, 2009 7:33:07 am PST #9527 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
We didn't buy the first place we saw. Which is good. It was too far out of the center of Niles -- backed up to the boulevard which means harleys all day long esp. sat and sunday and It was boring. We bought the second.
Jessica - Mar 07, 2009 7:43:33 am PST #9528 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DH and I bought the second place we saw, which made us so nervous we went back to see it again three times. But it was just the right place for us, you know? We got lucky.
lisah - Mar 07, 2009 9:09:12 am PST #9529 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I bought the first place I even thought about buying but saw a few others on a city-organized bus tour so I could get grant money from the city. It was a very lucky situation though. And I'd been living two blocks away for a couple of years so I knew the neighborhood and the street really well.
Jesse - Mar 07, 2009 9:39:46 am PST #9530 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
When you know what to expect, you really can judge places. When I moved into this apartment, I started off looking in some neighborhoods I didn't know well, and didn't see anything good. I knew this neighborhood, and knew when I saw the place it was the best I would see. So, if I hadn't tried to trick myself into moving to Brooklyn, I would have taken the first place.