Debacle

Sunday, June 29, 2003 » general update

As you probably know, I went down to Santa Barbara early last Wednesday morning with my parents to help move things from one apartment to the other. Everyone was looking forward to this new place very much, since, aside from being a very nice apartment (for Isla Vista), everyone gets their own rooms and we do not have to live beneath the SBCC furniture-stomping barbarians, next to the new June-lease neighbors who listen to horrible music and smoke horrible cigarettes (You can mail them at 6657 El Colegio Rd. #21, Goleta, CA 93117.), or put up with exploding plumbing. Anyway. So, everyone has been cramming into the poor two-bedroom Westwinds apartment for almost a week, with the Laurs' things piled around and Jason, Carly and Morgan's things all boxed up to be moved. Imagine how surprised we were when we showed up at the new place and not only had the cleaners had no visible effect, but it appeared the previous tenants left the place in such a hurry that their velocity ripped random dust and debris out of the apartment and scattered it all over the floors and yard. We knew before we signed the lease that our landlord, as nice as she might be, was a little disorganized, but move-in day was really not the greatest time for all the chaos to catch up with us. So, Wednesday turned out to be rather unproductive and we retreated back to the box-ridden Westwinds for the night.

The next day the cleaners managed to remove most of the rubble surrounding the apartment as well as put in some new molding in each of the rooms, and we spent the entire day moving boxes. By the end of the day I definitely felt accomplished, although we didn't make quite as much progress as we could have with two full days to move things. I ended up having to leave the apartment in its unfinished state to return to the Bay Area. I hear it's progressed nicely since then, however, and I am looking forward to seeing it myself in about a week.

Moving on. It seems that I will never manage to finish my write-up of my E3 impressions. As of now they are still incomplete, and by the next chance I have to work on them the show will have been over for about two months. Still, I have a great deal of things to say about what I saw there and I don't like to leave things unfinished, so as soon as I return here I am going to get back to work on it. I also wanted a great deal to discuss the new art links I've added over the last few weeks, since they are all incredible sites, but unfortunately that will have to wait as well. Right now I'm off traveling again. I may have some online access once I get to Santa Barbara late on the 8th, but we'll see.

I'll be back in a couple of weeks.

Until then, here it is, your moment of Zen.