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i got a place!!! it’s a bachelor apartment, a little north of bloor on bartlett. big bedroom, decent kitchen, a bathroom bigger than this place (and in this place it’s for 3 people!), and a bit of a sitting room. i’m really excited to get out of this tiny room with weird/anal roommates and a loft bed and no floor space! i think i’m going to have to wait a while for an internet connection to get installed though…

it happened really fast – thursday night i was all pissed after seeing a horrible place, and i checked craigslist after just listening to music for a while. i saw an ad for this place and i liked the wording of the post, so i called right away (15 minutes after the ad was posted). i saw it on friday night after work, and liked it a lot. they called my weekend job for a reference, and evidently my boss must have said really nice things, because they called me at around noon and offered me the apartment. i withdrew some cash for the deposit on my break and went over there after work and paid & signed the lease. my uncle’s giving me his car (a station wagon!) for the day on september first, so everything is taken care of.

when i say “withdrew some cash” i mean “took $200 from my visa and emptied my bank account”, because that’s what it took. whatever, next week is going to be very lucrative. until then, though, i have $15 in my wallet and $3 in chequing. this place is still really, really cheap for what it is, and the landlord knows that – she said she likes to have a very large pool of potential tenants so she can pick who she thinks is the most honest and reliable. flattering, i guess. evidently there was ridiculous competition, and the phone was still ringing regarding the place while i was signing the lease. makes sense though, an unsketchy ad about a cheap place in a good neighborhood in this city? rare and highly desirable.

this whole week i’m housesitting for my uncle & aunt a little to the west over in the lansdowne/college area. i did the same thing last year and it was great, living by myself in a big 3-story house, basically pretending to be a successful adult. this time though, i’m working in the studio the whole week, something i always love to do. i’ll do a bunch of work with a band over the week, and hopefully some of my own stuff if i’m not too busy enjoying a backyard and quiet neighborhood.

i worked the whole last week, i’m working all this week, and three more days the week after (and i always work weekends). that’s a lot of work! perfect timing though, immediately before school starts again – i think i’ll actually have MORE free time once the school year starts and i’m only working weekends and some evenings. i’ve noticed in the last few weeks that my routine is totally work-based. i really just wake up, shower, eat, maybe watch something, and go to work all day. i get home, make dinner, watch a tv show, read for a while, then watch a replay (always makes me sleepy) and go to bed. i picked out which tv shows i’m watching this season on the pogdesign cat and set them up to download via utorrent rss, but between all the good shows airing now and the other stuff i’m slowly watching (deadwood, the wire), combined with not really spending much time at home anymore, i’m totally accumulating a backlog. i guess that’s a good thing, i’ve never really not had time to watch tv, even during the school year.

i was reading my favorite torrent forum and someone posted in a helvetica fontpack thread:
“Be careful with these, one wouldn’t want to induce.. THE HELVETICA SCENARIO“. yep

in the last few months i’ve gotten a lot done mentally and productively, played some really fun gigs, traveled a bit, and now i finally get to live by myself. this is an amazing summer!!!