Day 249 - The House Hunt

We visited three apartments today, and scheduled appointments for six more tomorrow. Cz is so over being rootless, and was ready to sign on the very first place we saw, a largish studio in a nice part of Queens. I wasn't ready to settle, and of course didn't want to sign on the very first place without seeing what else was out there.

The second place we saw was a huge one bedroom with a nice kitchen. Unfortunately the price listed on Craigslist was incorrect, an the apartment was about $200 out of our price range.

Next was another large one bedroom with a big bedroom, decent living room, and an enormous eat-in kitchen. The present tenant has table for 6 in there now, and there is still room to move around. Best of all, it is on the express line just two stops from Columbus Circle, which is the subway stop closest to our day job. The only drawback is that it might not allow cats. As the present tenant said "It's technically a no pets building, but I know people have them". I was ready to take that as a 'go' and just smuggle the cats in. Cz wants to be honest. She said that another couple seemed interested, so we went into competitive apartment mode. We called the agency as we were leaving, and the phone rang and rang, without even going to voicemail. When we arrived home, we called again, and this time succeeded in leaving a message (which did NOT include mention of the cats).

Apartment hunting complete, we met up with W and an old TheatreVA friend for Ethiopian food. After dinner we went to see a screening of the Oscar nominated animated shorts where W were met by our friend B. Most of the films were pretty disappointing, but the re-imagined Peter and the Wolf was brilliant. It uses the original score and the original animals (cat, bird, duck, wolf), but it is set in a harsh winter landscape, and roars with black humour. The fatty cat is especially funny. See the film if you can.

Home again, we set the alarm for super-early so that I could further troll Craigslist, and so that we could be the first ones at the building managers office in case it was open on the holiday.