I’ve been meaning to write another entry for like two weeks.  Sorry to those of you who like to read this at work.  I also like to write this at work, so I’ll try to be a bit more prompt.  But there really is loads going on these days.  My neverending lease of the tiny, overpriced apartment was finally up, and I am officially a one-apartment gal.  (Gal?  Who am I?)  In an attempt to be as miserly as possible with my security deposit, I was cleaning the old place like crazy and doing stupid things like buying replacement blinds and stressing out when I couldn’t put them up myself. 

But the place is FINALLY clean.  And finally no longer mine.  I was fortunate enough to do the walkthrough with Scotty, the handyman in the building, and he doesn’t really care.  Which is hilarious since he’s the only person to fix the damaged/filthy apartments.  I thought the radiator cover, which was ripped out of my wall would cost me, but he took one look at it and said “oh that’s fine; that sort of thing happens all the time.”  All he wrote on the sheet was “Okay.”  He told the landlady that the apartment was fine and looked really nice, broken radiator cover, chewed up blinds, yellowish tub and all.  And yesterday I received my entire security deposit + $7.77 extra in the mail.  I can’t tell you how great that makes me feel.  I had assumed that my cats screwed me out of the entire deposit, which is paranoid, I know, but I like to prepare for the worst.  Two days after my walkthrough, I got everything back.  It was hard to not do an incredibly embarrassing happy dance.

Now that I don’t have to worry about money for a little while, I’m going to try to get things done around the ole apartment.  First, I gotta clean my room and organize my piles of crap.  So far they’ve been littering my floor and desk and window area, which will simply not do any longer.  I think I’m going to buy some plastic crates from Home Depot, which are good for my junk deposits.  Other than that, I still need to buy a lamp, another bookcase, more art and frame the stuff I have so I can hang it.  Ideally, I would like to buy a printer as well, but that can wait.  For the apartment as a whole, I saw a pretty cool looking kitchen cart at Home Depot that I’m thinking about getting for the random hole in our kitchen.  We don’t have much counter space, so I think that would be a perfect addition.  The apartment itself doesn’t look very lived in yet, which I kind of hate, but we can make it nice before the end of the year, at least. 

So that’s going to be an ongoing project, which I will start this weekend, since Alex is going to be out of the city for Labor Day weekend.  I may actually spend Labor Day, uh, laboring.  Whee!

What else?  I’m still studying for the LSATs.  I’m taking them September 26th, so it’s getting to be crunch time with that.  As soon as one thing eases up, another dilemma swoops in and takes its place.  Constant stress, yay!  But I’m generally hopeful about getting a decent score.  I just have to keep practicing Games and Arguments, and I really need to get back into the swing of being focused for a three-hour test.  I think that’s my biggest hurdle.  So more practice tests left to go.  I’ll keep y’all posted. 

What else? What else?  Well!  Remember when I got excited about Roller Derby and totally wanted to do it even though I can’t skate?  It’s happening again.  And this time I mean it.  Laura and I are actually going to try out.  I’m going to practice skating, so that I at least don’t look like a total idiot when I try out.  Even if I do get all the equipment and skate like every day and take speed skating classes, I still know that I’m probably not going to get on the farm team at the first tryout.  It seems pretty common that it takes two tryout sessions.  Not going to let that get me down, but I’m going to work my hardest so I don’t look like a total moron.  Just someone that probably needs a little more practice before she can get on the team.  I’m realistic.

In spirit of that, here’s the trailer for Whip It!  The Roller Derby movie.  Already excited about it.  Although I’m slightly concerned that trying out after the movie comes out will make me look like a poseur.  I’ll be prefacing everything with “I wanted to try out last year, but…” That should work, right?  As long as I’ve got some chops to back it up, then I won’t look like someone just jumping on the bandwagon.

Movie!

My knee is going to dislocate so fast, y’all. I can’t wait.