msbelle, it's sort of two rooms, but more a parlor/sitting room with opening like between my 2 downstairs rooms. The traffic flow is as if one room. And yeah. It works for a single/couple with no kids and no company, but that's about it. And the thing is, a lot of single people here take on roommates, so.

Coolness!!

I served on the first prosecuted hate crime in San Francisco (against a gay man). We ended up convicting on felony assault, but not the hate crime (we determined that the guys who beat the gay guy up would have done it regardless of the guy's orientation - they were just a bunch of drunk wankers looking to pick a fight that night).

So, today, my school learned that we were on the 188 sucky schools in California that should be taken over by the state or have some other reform happen. The bad thing is that the school hasn't been open for 4 years yet so the 5 years the state is using as data doesn't really mean anything. And the principal has really done a lot to turn it around, with giant score increases last year.

Bah. Hum. Bug. But if I could fire some of my coworkers and get $2 million in the process I'd get on that train.

Lucky me, I got the stupidest case EVER.

My sister has a one bedroom house, and the first house we made an offer on years ago was a one bedroom. (We had Plans, but the dude was unwilling to do the work we requested to make the deal happen.)

We lived in what was originally a one-bedroom cottage (story was it had been a servant's home when it was part of a larger estate). Another bedroom had been added along the back, although you had to walk through the original bedroom to get to it.

I just unfriended a HS friend (on Facebook) who'd I'd been tempted to unfriend previously.

His most recent post?

"At Hooters with my brother, and he said the waitress was 'dumber than a box of shit' and I asked him "what he had against shit!" LOLOLOLOL oh we crack ourselves up!

There were at least 3 things that pissed me off about it. At first I commented "what a lovely way to describe someone" and then I realized I didn't even want to engage. So I deleted the comment and then unfriended.

A couple of months ago he went on some diatribe against Obama, people on Welfare & foodstamps who lived in HUD housing, etc and how he didn't want to pay his taxes. He ended it with something like "these people are just losers who will never amount to anything anyway!"

I posted a four paragraph response on how my family had spent time on both foodstamps and welfare intermittently and that I also had lived in HUD housing for a time. I continued with "now I am in the [high%] tax bracket, giving more to Uncle Sam than you earn in a year, and I never complain about my taxes. I am lucky to earn this money and I am grateful that I can give back to the community and maybe help someone the way I was helped as kid."

And he then had the audacity to comment that he wasn't talking about me, because I wasn't one of the "losers" he was talking about. It went downhill from there. I thought I unfriended him then, but I must have just hidden him in my stream.

One bedrooms have their uses, but in this market and area, not so good as a selling point.

I made an offer on a one-bedroom house once. It was really cute but also strange, with trapezoidal-shaped rooms and stuff. Had a nice big kitchen with a breakfast nook, though.

java, he sounds like a tool. Zap him.

cashmere, I'm glad the book arrived.