Ch ch changes!

My oh my what a time it has been! Since my last post I have moved, twice. I moved into a shared room and quickly moved out the next day. The landlord of the place I was supposed to move into (the one I mentioned in my last entry) rented BOTH of the locations he had showed me.

Naturally he didn't tell me any of this until 6pm on the night I was moving out. He didn't give me any other options but to move into a shared room. I called a few B&Bs but people either didn't pick up the phone or had a full house for the weekend.

So after listening to him berate me for not wanting to live in a shared bedroom I finally agreed to go there for a week. He was an absolute ass about the whole thing.

In fact when he picked me up to take me to the new place he made a comment about how my theory on what I wanted in a living situation was a lot like my pants: it had a hole in it.

I just kept my mouth shut and tolerated him because I didn't have many other options.

So when I arrived at the house I discovered the room was shared with not just one person but THREE. Three people in a bedroom. Mind you it was a good-sized room but still. And he knew it but didn't feel it was necessary to share that information with me. What a fuckin' wanker.

Eventually I settled in for the night (after the wanker landlord made me go to the movies with him...happily he paid for everything but it was a stupid movie, "Dinner with the Schmucks") and tried to go to sleep.

The three German kids living in the room went out as it was a Sat night. They came home around 2am, after I just started to fall asleep.

They were kind enough to be quiet while they got ready for bed but I still woke up. And worst of all? When they did go to sleep one of them snored. At least one of them, it may have been two.

Needless to say I didn't fall asleep til 6am when I turned on my iTunes and used my earphones to drown out the snoring with gentle classical music.

I decided I couldn't handle this and I was moving out the next day; I need my sleep. So after looking at temporary accommodations on Daft, I got out of bed to get ready for the day.

And lo and behold there was a couple sleeping nude in the other bed. Well by sleeping I mean they were in bed together.

Then I was just angry. I wasn't angry at the couple so much as the landlord. He knew there were multiple people in that room but he didn't think it was important to tell me. OR he knew I'd throw a fit and decided to avoid having that conversation with me.

So that sealed the deal for me. I lined up a B&B to stay at from Wednesday onward and my friends were kind enough to take me in from Sunday til Wednesday morning.

And now I'm still at the B&B! It's a lovely little place in Drumcondra with a sweet owner who has taken good care of me. She has taken me in until Friday and then I must find a home!

Since moving in here I have sorted my loan situation, gotten my deposit and rent money back from Goatstown, registered for classes and am beginning classes today.

Although I haven't found a long-term home yet I am on the hunt. I have viewed nearly a dozen apartments/homes/etc. None have been just right - some are in areas I didn't like, others are too small with no space for studying, other people have chosen to let to someone else and yet others have no bathtub, crummy kitchen, etc.

Generally any place I have vetoed has had a combination of things wrong with it. I'm not dismissing them all out of hand, they each have their merits but those merits haven't held up against their demerits.

So now I'm off to class this afternoon and am seeing two places tonight. I am hopeful about each of these. They are in good locations, have multiple bathrooms, study areas/large bedrooms and the people living there seem friendly enough. Not everyone welcomes grad students, even students as old as I.

Wish me luck!