Real Life Stuff
May. 25th, 2006 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhLately I've been going through the various hoops to secure housing for next year. It's a process made even more complicated than it already is by the fact that I somehow didn't get word that I was supposed to be doing anything at all until two days after the deadline (I suspect the original email got caught as spam; I've been having issues with my school email lately. Thirty pieces of spam within a few hours is not normal, people, especially since the freakin' Yahoo account I've had for seven years usually only lets one or two pieces a day slip through), and then the first time I sent the forms in, they got lost in the mail.
I still don't know exactly where I'll be living; it'll be one of three places, but the ultimate sorting depends partly on who you get as a roommate. They've set up a discussion board for people to see who they might be compatible with. Of course, everyone else started this over two weeks ago, so I'm not sure how many people are left for me to choose from.
Things that are not appealing: writing up a description of yourself, your interests and habits, while trying to simultaneously seem likeable to the type of people you would be interested in and unattractive to anyone who would annoy you. But I sat down last night and trudged through it, then posted it before I went to bed.
Pros: By the time I got up this morning, I had already gotten an email from the girl whose own description I had found most appealing on the entire site.
Cons: She already has a roommate, just wants to be friends, and I've gotten emails from no one else.
...I don't know if I'm encouraged or depressed by this.
I still don't know exactly where I'll be living; it'll be one of three places, but the ultimate sorting depends partly on who you get as a roommate. They've set up a discussion board for people to see who they might be compatible with. Of course, everyone else started this over two weeks ago, so I'm not sure how many people are left for me to choose from.
Things that are not appealing: writing up a description of yourself, your interests and habits, while trying to simultaneously seem likeable to the type of people you would be interested in and unattractive to anyone who would annoy you. But I sat down last night and trudged through it, then posted it before I went to bed.
Pros: By the time I got up this morning, I had already gotten an email from the girl whose own description I had found most appealing on the entire site.
Cons: She already has a roommate, just wants to be friends, and I've gotten emails from no one else.
...I don't know if I'm encouraged or depressed by this.
