That's awesome Theo!

Sophia, is it just the inspection to get the certificate of occupancy back? Or more bureaucracy stuff??

I am reminded why I don't normally take public transit home. With a ride share it takes about 30 min. With bus and light rail it took almost 90! Ugh. Granted it was about $3.50 rather than $27. But still.

I start back at work tomorrow. Eek!!!

I ended up taking an Uber from th bud station because I JUST missed the next bus, and it now makes me so anxious to be away from home on a weekday. I do not want to sleep in my office or the costume shop again! I actually feel more anxious now than before I realized I had the money to pay.

I think the headache/beauracracy is all on the landlord. I think he has 60 days so he is not in as much of a hurry as I am, but they said they would come by this week, do their inspection and fix my little things (the Serve Pro people removed a smoke alarm and I think most of the detectors have to be replaced, and I am not tall enough to change the lightbulb on my stairs). They are getting me a new lock/key this week for $25. I just don't know if things will move on my timeline, which I may just need to be patient with.

In a sort of depressing thought, this is a situation where being a nice white lady really privileged me. I think if I were a black woman, I would have been out on my butt. Actually, I am not sure this landlord rents to people of color. There are none in my little area (10 apartments), which makes me uncomfortable now that I have thought it, because this is a really mixed area (Black, White, Latino)

Oh, and a quick google search led me to the to reassurance that my landlord cant evict me when there is no COI, especially if they accepted my money. So I guess the police can tell me I can't sleep here, but they probably have bigger fish to fry!

Cops do get discretion about prioritizing enforcement, so all you have to hope for is that there are major crimes to be investigated elsewhere. :-)

My tweet was read on Talking Dead last night, and I'm just finding out now because I didn't stay up to watch it last night.

Oh wow, meara! How do you feel?

Very cool, sj!

Sophia, if you were to move, are there places that would be easier for you to get around from?

Sophia, continued ~ma with everything. Waiting is hard and anxiety producing.

Good luck, meara!

I feel...not enthused, but admittedly was/am starting to get a bit bored (though if I knew I was going to be on sabbatical longer I'd plan more trips! But my bank account would not appreciate that). We'll see how it goes--I'm scared of how many emails I may have, and the amount of training that I'll have to do. Fingers crossed I'm not assigned to any awful projects. I'd hoped to be more prepared, in terms of prepping my food and feeling all clean and organized and so on, but oh well. About to go have dinner with a friend. :)

Sophia, if you were to move, are there places that would be easier for you to get around from?

There are definitely places that would make it easier to get to work, but not to get to a grocery store. They are almost all suburban And not on a bus line and I am now walking distance from one and also a bank. It is also nice being walking distance from Maria and her mom and the beach. I just sort of wish I could move work closer.