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debka_notion ([personal profile] debka_notion) wrote2011-08-03 06:06 pm

Dwelling Places

So, we have an apartment for the coming year (we've written up the sublet agreement, although it isn't yet signed- but that's just a formality at this point: everything is agreed on, it was just that the printer was broken)- a sublet, but we can't move in until August 15 or 16.

So in the meantime, we're staying with assorted friends and family in NY, since H needs to be at school everyday from 9 to 5 (or a little later), and commuting from my parents' house is possible, but difficult, with that time-frame. Thus far, we have stayed at [livejournal.com profile] hotshot2000's while we were apartment hunting, then went to my parents, while i got over a rather exhausting cold. Since coming back to the city, we were at [livejournal.com profile] mbarr's for the weekend, and are now staying with H's cousin. We'll be with another cousin for shabbos, and then we're still working out next week. It's a little hectic, but certainly interesting.

Staying with this cousin (male) has been an interesting experience in the observation of someone else's life patterns. Here is a man who works in computers, and lives in NY partially because his brother does. He has nice furniture and an attractive, very clearly masculine, apartment- and no actual table, nor a folding table. Now, I had a year in a college apartment where we never got a table- but that was college, and a failure of planning/carry-through. This is a nice, thoughtfully put together apartment, without a table. The fridge is similarly barren. It's an interesting thing to see. But it seems to work for him.

[identity profile] mbarr.livejournal.com 2011-08-04 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
well.. we still can talk about next week... :)

[identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com 2011-08-04 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
We'd be grateful to take you up on the offer, if it stands, but if it's going to cause issues, then we have a couple of couches we can snab for a couple nights a pop.