Something new
In four hours I am once again jetting across the country. This time though, it is different. This time, I find something more permanent. After this, one long drive in a rental truck and I’ll be flying the opposite trip.
I am very excited to be moving. I’ve been looking forward to it for quite some time, and now that it is impending I just want to pack up and drive tomorrow. I think my mind is already gone, and it is becoming very difficult to focus on finishing the things I need to finish here. I’m not really feeling much love for Richmond right now. And I’m ready to be done with VCU. Don’t get me wrong, VCU has been great. But it feels like it is all I can remember, and I’m ready to move on. Problem is, I need to finish a thesis and defend it, so I can move on with a Master’s degree. Me and Richmond aren’t through yet, I guess.
These 6:00AM flights…I don’t like them. I never sleep before them. I’ve been packing, and printing directions, and searching for craigslist listings, and writing down phone numbers, and now there is just no point in going to bed. It’s going to make for a long day tomorrow though.
I never liked looking for housing in the past. I always felt like I had to prove myself worthy to the all powerful realtors (who, at least in my experience, have zero trust and zero respect for college students). I’m the one about to shell out a bunch of money every month, shouldn’t they be earning my business? Better yet, you get to pay application fees in exchange them them judging you fit or unfit. But, they never seem to have a problem renting, and once they have you in a lease they don’t care much how you feel about it. In my experience, rental property companies don’t worry too much about customer service. Of course, in Richmond at least, if you are a student, you are unfit. You must have a co-signer. I feel much better about this now though, having a real job and real salary. Who knows, maybe it will be much better. It certainly can’t be any worse than the Coliseum Lofts or Dickson and Associates (A.K.A. Redneck Realty) experiences were.
“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.” -Washington Irving “Tales of a Traveler”
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” -G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
