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Well, here I am, in Boston, discovering the wonders of wireless networks and laptops with AirPort cards. This afternoon I'm going to go tromping off to see a couple of real estate agents. I've got messages out to several Craigslist listings, and I really hope I hear back from at least one of them. If this apartment hunt wanted to be easy, and I could spend the end of this week hanging around and possibly job-hunting, I wouldn't mind in the slightest.

Yesterday was a minor adventure, because the weather in Boston kept us on the ground, in the plane, for an hour and a half. The weather wasn't great in Akron either, but at least we could have taken off in it. Then we got put in a holding pattern around Boston for half an hour. The entire flight path between Akron and Boston was solid cloud cover. I almost wish I had been going west, so I could see how far beyond Ohio is solid cloud cover.

Oh well, at least I brought my sneakers and my umbrella, and I do know how to swim, so I'm not going to drown if it really does rain all week.

In order: hmm, ick, hmm, nice (but no), and well...

So, today I looked at five studio apartments. One is Right Out, because it hasn't been cleaned since the Reagan administration. (They should try renting it to an undergrad with a twin bed and less sense of hygiene than I've got.) Another is out because my bed might almost fit in it. A third is almost out because it's considerably older than I am and showing its age. Which leaves me with two possibilities, one of which has, wonder of wonders, a dishwasher!

I walked out on one realtor who couldn't be bothered with me when I walked in (the sign that said Walk-ins Welcome lied, apparently), and then proceeded to treat me like a penniless undergrad when she did deign to have two minutes for me. Her first question was Where are you living, in a hotel, her second was Do you have a job, and her third was So you have a co-signer, then? This after I said I had finished my Master's degree. She left the room to deal with somebody who had an appointment, and I decided I didn't need to deal with her.

I also got rained on a lot, and got my umbrella turned inside out at least three times, and went to Cardullo's on the bus and got some dark chocolate with peppercorns in it. I am now tired, hungry and not going back out in the weather again at least until it's light out.