I am now living in New York! Or rather, I have been in New York for just over a week now, but the apartment was not habitable when we arrived, nearly halfway through the first month of our lease, I might add, with problems up to and including the fact that we lacked a functioning bath spigot (though water did come out of the hole in the wall when you turned the tap), running water in the sinks, smoke and CO detectors and a lock on the door that worked. There was that happy episode when, coming to dump stuff in the apartment before returning to my cushy hotel room, my mom and I got trapped in the apartment when the door stuck. Literally. There's a little flip thingy on the bottom that's supposed to lock the outside handle so it can't be turned if you don't want it to. Our lock stopped the inside handle, and managed to somehow flip itself on when we closed the door the first time, because the top of the lock wasn't screwed into the door. Cue hysterical phone call (among many) to the management company. Eventually the entire lock had to be replaced. We then put in a second lock and a security chain (the peephole, we were told, was painted over by the same geniuses who did the first unhappy lock and is completely unusable) but the entire door is sagging and it has to be closed in an extra special way and we are told that the entire door was meant to be replaced, since it is missing screws. By this point, my roommate and I are starting to lose a few screws of our own, since we have been constantly in the apartment waiting for workmen of one sort or another to arrive. However, tonight is the first night we have internet and air conditioning, and tomorrow is the first day one or the other of us is not destined to make day-long trips to furniture stores or to stay in the apartment waiting for things. Comparatively, we are ecstatic. (Also, I got my hair cut today, just in time for a heat wave! And there is a Pinkberry around the corner.)

Victoree! (^_^)v