Here in Seattle

[kodalai]

So, a status update from me: I arrived in Seattle on Saturday afternoon. Yay! My original plan had been to rest and goof off on Sat and Sun and then get to work on Monday, but I neglected to take the date into account. Labor day: oops.

But today I got started. I submitted an application to work at Starbucks, and hopefully that will lead to something (signs are good.) Less good on the housing front. I've called three places and sent emails to three more, but so far nobody has responded. :\ I'd go down there in person but somehow I think that would be useless without making an appointment first... by phone or by email. Don't these people WANT people to respond to their ads? Argh.

Other than that... Seattle is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. And COLD. I'd spent the whole trip across the American Southwest and up through California absolutely sweltering, and then suddenly it's 50, 60 degrees. X_X I don't have any warm clothes -- they're all in transit across the Pacific. I wasn't expecting such a dramatic temperature shift. :\ Oh well, I shiver on.

(P.S: This album -- The Crane Wife by the Decemberists -- is absolutely fantastic and everyone should buy it.)

Comments

[foxglove6.livejournal.com]

huggles! welcome home-ish!

I second your thought that making appointments is important. Many leasing offices only have one or two people in them at any given time and if one is showing an apartment.... not sure why they wouldn't get back to you. Bad luck maybe? Holiday weekend and people are catching up on email? Two of the people I need to make contracts with for the wedding are out of the office until Thursday. I thought it was strange only because they both took off the same time.. weird. Maybe people took long vacations? dunno.

Good luck though! on work and housing fronts.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Or maybe they're just jerks who have already rented out the rooms but can't be bothered to update their listings. >|

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

That's actually quite likely.

A really common trick around here is for brokers/leasing offices to list fabulous no-fee apartments in the Craigslist no-fee section, but when you call them, they say, "Oh, that apartment was just rented! But we have these OTHER almost as fabulous apartments, and some are only half-fee not full-fee..." Bastards. I hate dealing with 95% of brokers. The good ones are few and far between.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

I love the Crane Wife!

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Yes! It is fantastic. Too bad I only have a partial version. XD

[diatomacearth.livejournal.com]

The in-store play version you have has all the best songs anyway, although it's still worth shelling out for the whole album.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

How bout I buy the extra songs on itunes, that way they get some money from me >.>

[titlecharacter.livejournal.com]

I had exactly the same experience with apartment-hunting in Philly - you really wouldn't think you were trying to arrange a multi-thousand-dollar transaction with them. I got called back by, no joke, less than 25% of the people I contacted. Absolutely nuts.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

:\ Maybe I should be sending out 4x as many inqueries? It's true, so far I've gotten 2 responses back... (one of which was from a different number so I have no idea which apartment complex it actually was to scratch it off the list, argh.)

[titlecharacter.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I basically sent off an email/phonecall to every single acceptable-looking apartment I could find; I got a few callbacks, rejected a few, and finally had one work out.

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at now.

[aging-parents.livejournal.com]

Wait until you try to get a workman or contractor for any kind of home improvement project (repairs are different, & often there are companies that specialize in emergency calls). You wouldn't think that these were multi-thousand dollar jobs, to judge by the cavalier way they have of not responding to calls or e-mails.

Btw, were you able to get in touch with the aunt & uncle over Labor Day weekend?

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

Yes, I met up with them and we had lunch (and they gave me a map of Seattle!)

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

Yay! You live! I'm still waiting for you to hate the weather. 8D

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

I don't hate it yet! It's nice weather, just colder than my clothes allow for. XD

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

When will all your stuff be arriving?