Angry angry hippo, part the second
Sorry for all the angst yesterday. It’s just a phase. You’re thinking I should go write some awful poetry and get over it. You’re probably right.
Anyway, the real tragedy is that my lease expires at the end of February, and I recently got a cheery note from the rental company informing me that they’ll be upping my rate by *more than $100*. What’s more, the minimum lease period is now twelve months instead of six. Grrrr.
It’s all Katrina’s fault. The displacement of so many New Orleanians has caused a huge rental housing shortage here in Houston. I’ve checked a few other complexes in the area, and their rates have all shot up as well. Of course I’m sorry that all those people lost their homes and their families and their everything, but goshdarnit that’s a lot of money.
I’ll probably stay put and suck up the extra $1500 or so for the next year. I can try to rationalize the cost by thinking of all the money I’m saving in move-out fees, move-in fees, pet deposits, cleaning bills…but really I’m just plain lazy.
I hate being lazy. As I look around my mess of an apartment and down my half-ass to-do list, I hate it more and more. Look, now I’m lazy AND whiny. Aren’t I just a barrel of laughs.
Speaking of which, here’s a cute little thingamajig. It selects three random Garfield panels and splices them together. Approximately as funny as ordinary Garfield, which is to say, worth a chuckle if you’re really really bored. (via BoingBoing)
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P.S. It’s National De-Lurking Week. Just like National Coming Out Day, but different. So say hi. Or say whatever you want, really. My comment board is your soapbox.
As an incentive, I’ve even added a ‘Recent Comments’ plugin to the sidebar. This is something I’ve been meaning to do since September, but it took De-Lurking Week to get me off my ass. (Added bonus: if you want to leave a sneaky secret comment on a post from way back when, you can’t! You can leave one, I mean, but it won’t be secret. You’ll just have to email me instead.)
P.P.S. That last post was my hundredth on the new site. Woo! Though there’s still a lot of tweaking to be done (new banner, different font, cleaner sidebar, blogroll, tags instead of categories), I finally feel like I’ve settled in here.
Tags: blogging, miscellany
January 11th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
so. . .now you’re apologizing about what you write on your own blog????
January 11th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
you’re gonna suck up that extra rent… youch. Altho i wonder what my renewal notice will look like next august - *shudders and runs home to mommy. Maybe some of thse people will move on or the housing bubble will pop.. prays, hums, offers incantations and monetary assuasions to the nearest available voodoo doll
January 11th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
IRT sparagmos: Sure am! I have an obligation to my readers, I think, not to depress them inordinately. Well, maybe not an obligation, but I don’t want to be one of those people who proclaim, “This is my blog, I’ll write whatever I damn well please, and if you think it’s offensive or sloppy or just plain dull, you can go read something else!”
It’s not that I want everyone to like me, it’s that I hold myself to a high standard. That’s what I keep telling myself, anyway; sounds good, don’t it? =P