Woe Upon Your Cylon Heart!

I've almost posted a million times in the past couple of days, but I've just been so totally stressed out with moving and apartment hunting that I certainly didn't want to talk about all the horror cause I'm hoping I'll forget about it. Anyway, in apartment hunting, I was lured in by one complex in particular called Melrose. It's the farthest from campus but oh! It is so nice and pretty.

And then that night in Orlando, something made me check on the internet to see if there were apartment rating sites for Gainesville. And there was, of course. On two different sites, that complex got under 40/100 in stuff. Everything was negative and horrible sounding. Bugs and horrible management and lying contracts and drugs everywhere and oh man, I'm so glad I didn't sign. So now I'm thinking about this other place called the Landings, but there the bedrooms aren't furnished. I can rent bedroom furniture for $30 a month, but for that I might as well buy some damn furniture myself, and of course that's a horrifying thing. And, goddammit, it's all stupid 12 month leases and how the hell am I going to pay for summer, since I want to go abroad so I will just be hemorrhaging money and it's all horrible and stressful and FUCK YOU UF HOUSING LOTTERY.

Arg, anyway, in good news, I am home (even though the whole summer classes thing is giving me a horrible time) and I got to see almost all of my relatives and their offspring today and it was really nice and fun. And it's pretty nice being home.

Look guys, I wrote!


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I am partially in my new room and partially still in the back room. Marisa and I need to go to Target today, and I really want to rent out a mop and vacuum so that I can clean that room before I move in.

Wooooo hoooooo!

First off, I cannot say enough nice things about the fine people at Glarkware. I've bought three Alias t-shirts from them (Who's Your Spy Daddy?, Sydney's wig outlet, and The Rambaldis) and I loved them all to death. So recently I ordered the VAUGHN! shirt and received it yesterday.

It had two holes in it! Waah. Not like, gunshot holes like in Vaughn, but actual "oops, holes" holes.

So I emailed them, and I got a prompt email just asking for my order number. Once they were sure it was true, they said that they'd send me a new one, no exchange necessary. It was all taken care of within 12 hours and I am so thrilled.

Secondly, I went to dinner with my dad's family. It was a huge group of us- me, Mom, Dad, Mel, my cousins Natali, Yoyo, Janelle and my Madrina, my Padrino and Tia Mabel, my Madrina's husband Tommy and Janelle's husband Juan and their baby Jaylen. We went to El Novillo, and I haven't seen them since the day of prom when we were baptizing Jaylen. It was really nice talking to everyone and it calmed my nerves talking to them about UF and what was going on. And I got toasted and it was nice, and I got a very generous present from them for graduation but it was a very nice last night here. I also saw Talisa for the last time (waaaaaah!) and took my last shower here and wow. I have no idea what I'm going to do tomorrow at six AM when I have to leave.

Okay, so, I've watched twelve hours of the Gilmore girls in the past two days. This is impressive, although no where near as impressive as my consumption of the first two seasons of Alias in three days.

Today Papa Gilmore cemented his position as my favorite person because he almost beat up Christopher's asshole of a father (named Straub for god's sake) in order to defend Lorelai. I love him. I'm not too thrilled with Christopher, forever. And the name Lorelai has grown on me like you would not believe. I am such a sucker. I used to hate the name Sydney, too. It's absolutely not fair.

I also started packing and stuff. And by "started packing" I mean, we got a general idea of what clothes I'm bringing (a lot) and books (a lot less than I expected) and shoes and belts. We washed my new sheets and my mom got me a rug and it's so weird to think that I won't be living here anymore. I won't even be close anymore.

To veer from that potentially depressing idea, and into another one, I want to go this a join birthday party Chang and Corinne are having on the beach, but I have no way of getting there and no way to get home. And even if I get a ride, I am a party pooper and will want to leave. I suck at life and don't know what to do!

So here's a poll.

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