Current location:	sweetie's couch
Current mood:	excited
Current music:	fan

OMG Apt!
Okay, posting fail on my end. Because I've been looking for apts for awhile now, I keep saying to myself, "As soon as I make some progress on my apt search, I'll post about it," because otherwise there's not a whole lot to say about my day-to-day.

So progress is made! Today I signed about a zillion papers, forked over too much of my dwindling 08-09 loan funds, and made arrangements to pick up my key next week to my new apartment!! Woohoo! It's in Clinton Hill (Brooklyn), right near a train that'll take me straight to NYU, at the top end of my price range (which is significantly less than my dorm room first year), one-bedroom with a nice-sized bedroom, on the fifth floor of an elevator building, with laundry in the basement... hmmm, I think that's all. I'm really excited! I've never lived in my own place before! And now I cannot spend any unnecessary monies until student loans get in, like woah. The landlord is way nicer than my current landlord - I guess she's a landlady - and she reminds me of a French professor I once had, who was at first intimidating but turned out to be awesome.

But there is other news as well! My mother is coming up in a few days to visit me for my birthday, and I'm scheming things for us to do. I'm very much looking forward to seeing her and spending time in Brooklyn doing fun things. Also for my birthday, sweetie took me to see Wicked July 1st!! I'd read the book awhile back, and I wanted to see it since then (and before, really, having heard a lot about it). It was fantastic, of course. I love the story, changed as it was in the musical version, and I want to get the soundtrack so I can learn the songs.

What else? The life of a research assistant is a good one - make my own hours, search apts and see doctors any time I need, wear whatever to work, work with just a handful people (all of them very pleasant). The pay is a little weak, compared to what my classmates at firms are raking in, but as I've been visiting doctors about my headache situation, I've been glad to have such a flexible job. Headache situation?? It's not as serious as it might sound - for a few years, I've had increasingly frequent but not at all severe headaches. They're more annoying than worrisome, but as often as they are, I figure I should seek treatment for them so they recur at a somewhat more normal rate. I have discovered that generic Aleve works wonders on them.

Well, that's my news. I'm about to go to a birthday party and hope sweetie is willing to buy most of my drinks. Brooklyn represent!