Google map satellite is still kinda creepy

Good news was: the weather cleared up while I was at the animal shelter yesterday, so I DIDN'T have to drive through the rain in the afternoon.

I think I've mostly got my apartment picked out (unless the other person who emailed me in the morning yesterday and told me that I could come over in the morning yesterday via email after I've already left for my day manages to check his mail in time today AND tell me that I can visit today and his place is VERY good -- I mean it'll cut maybe ten to fifteen minutes off of my transit time and is cheaper, but I don't know how the place is, so I'm not going to make any commitments just yet) (that is possibly the longest in-parenthesis run-on that I've ever had to inflict on anyone).

That involves a lot of uncertainty in the many variables.

If most of them don't resolve I'll be moving to a place just off of Grand Ave in Pacific Beach. The rent is just over two hundred dollars cheaper per month (yea) and the utilities such as gas etc (the stove is gas) are included. It's, one small block away from the bus stop that'll take me to campus (which Google estimates will take me two minutes to walk to, so no more sulking in the dark parking lots in the winter, hopefully). The outside needs a new layer of paint, but the inside is clean enough, has a small kitchen and separate bathroom. What's more, the place that's available is second floor, and has a large, south-facing window (yes fiat lux!). It's just one building, and the other tenants are super nice. Two of them both went to call the landlord so she'd come over early, because I arrived early and they didn't think I should need to wait (and then I got involved in the downstrair's tenant's discussion on tomato plants, which another tenant gave her since he had some extra). It's also supposedly really QUIET there (enough to hear people snoring at night sometimes, but that remains to be seen), so no more jets passing by overhead while we watch things, Lucy. (lol It does make the trips to my place memorable, doesn't it?) It's next to a bunch of military housing and three of the six doors in the apartment facing the street was left open while I was there while the tenants were...somewhere, wandering around (sometimes with their shirt off, which was vaguely disconcerting at first, but this is Pacific Beach, so I guess that's expected?), which I thought was a very nice statement about the safety of that area (and one of the tenants has a very nice plasma screen).

The down side? It's still can take up to an hour to get to the campus (takes me thirty minutes right now). There's no on-site laundry place (I was told there's a laundry place two blocks north). The parking is on the street, so no parking spaces. I have to start paying rent by July 1st, since that's the longest they can hold the place off the market (but now that I got the other half of my salary at least I can afford to, for a brief while). And I would still like a bigger kitchen, but I've mostly given that up now since I still remember the apartments from last year's hunt and even the larger apartments have small kitchens. I should be glad I get a kitchen.