Sunday, July 6, 2008
Stress
I've had a rough week. Monday evening my mom and I went shopping, and I discovered that I'm too small to fit a size 2 or 4 in ladies' jeans, and an extra small in an Old Navy skirt is actually a little loose on my hips. That's pretty pathetic, considering I'm not that small. I'm short and petite, but I'm not nearly as tiny as some of the girls that I used to wait on at work. I think I'm starting to see why sizes like XXS and 00 actually exist.
I did find a cute pair of metallic pink flip-flops though, and my mom offered to buy me one of two pairs of shoes that I've been admiring online for a little while. It's either this one or this one. I can't decide which one I really want, though. I might have her buy me one of them and then buy the other pair myself.
Tuesday I started calling about the apartments that I wanted to look at, but only two of my original five choices actually had an available apartment, and one of those two didn't even set up an appointment with me because the apartments were going so fast and it was too far in advance for him to set up an appointment with me. I'm planning to call back about that one (and a few others) tomorrow and see if it's still available.
Two of the four appointments I managed to set up are for two-bedroom apartments. One of those two is almost surely out of my budget and it's fully furnished, but the other one sounds like a better value. One of the appointments is for one of the one-bedroom apartments from my original list, and it's actually the apartment that VCU's off-campus housing representative recommended to me as the best of my original choices, but it wasn't my favorite of the original choices. The other appointment is for a couple of different places, but judging by some of their online listings, I don't know if I'm going to want them or not. They seem kind of dumpy and they don't offer all of the features that I want, but I don't think it'll hurt to just look at them.
I might even end up in a dorm, if I'm not satisfied with any of the apartments I see. I applied for on-campus housing after talking to the housing representatives at VCU about my problems. They said that there was a lot of space left in one of the dorms on the MCV campus, which is about two miles away from my classes, and there's a free shuttle bus that runs between the two campuses. They also said that it would be a good idea to go ahead and sign up because it would be a good backup plan for me.
Living in a dorm might be a better option than an apartment, actually. At this point I think the cost of a dorm with a meal plan would be almost the same as the average costs of living in an apartment and buying groceries every week, and I wouldn't have to worry as much about going out of my budget because I wouldn't be buying groceries regularly. It would be a relatively safe environment for me, and living in a dorm might also make it easier for me to make friends. My boyfriend wouldn't be able to move with me, but I think that there'd be less financial stress on him if I lived in a dorm, too.
I guess I won't know what will happen with my living situation until after I look at the apartments, but I'm glad that I at least have a backup plan if I'm not happy with any of the apartments.
I did find a cute pair of metallic pink flip-flops though, and my mom offered to buy me one of two pairs of shoes that I've been admiring online for a little while. It's either this one or this one. I can't decide which one I really want, though. I might have her buy me one of them and then buy the other pair myself.
Tuesday I started calling about the apartments that I wanted to look at, but only two of my original five choices actually had an available apartment, and one of those two didn't even set up an appointment with me because the apartments were going so fast and it was too far in advance for him to set up an appointment with me. I'm planning to call back about that one (and a few others) tomorrow and see if it's still available.
Two of the four appointments I managed to set up are for two-bedroom apartments. One of those two is almost surely out of my budget and it's fully furnished, but the other one sounds like a better value. One of the appointments is for one of the one-bedroom apartments from my original list, and it's actually the apartment that VCU's off-campus housing representative recommended to me as the best of my original choices, but it wasn't my favorite of the original choices. The other appointment is for a couple of different places, but judging by some of their online listings, I don't know if I'm going to want them or not. They seem kind of dumpy and they don't offer all of the features that I want, but I don't think it'll hurt to just look at them.
I might even end up in a dorm, if I'm not satisfied with any of the apartments I see. I applied for on-campus housing after talking to the housing representatives at VCU about my problems. They said that there was a lot of space left in one of the dorms on the MCV campus, which is about two miles away from my classes, and there's a free shuttle bus that runs between the two campuses. They also said that it would be a good idea to go ahead and sign up because it would be a good backup plan for me.
Living in a dorm might be a better option than an apartment, actually. At this point I think the cost of a dorm with a meal plan would be almost the same as the average costs of living in an apartment and buying groceries every week, and I wouldn't have to worry as much about going out of my budget because I wouldn't be buying groceries regularly. It would be a relatively safe environment for me, and living in a dorm might also make it easier for me to make friends. My boyfriend wouldn't be able to move with me, but I think that there'd be less financial stress on him if I lived in a dorm, too.
I guess I won't know what will happen with my living situation until after I look at the apartments, but I'm glad that I at least have a backup plan if I'm not happy with any of the apartments.
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