My New Home

So...

Sometimes you make arrangements to stay in a hotel for a few days while you hunt for an apartment in your new city.



And sometimes, after driving for 17 hours, you arrive at your hotel at 3:30 in the morning. (For a road-trip account, see Chris' blog.)



Sometimes when you get up to your hotel room, you discover that while the bed has been made, the rest of the room has not been cleaned. Perhaps there are hairs all over the shower. Perhaps there are pieces of used dental floss and apple seeds on the bathroom floor. Perhaps there are HAIRS (you know, those hairs) all over the toilet. Even the complimentary lotion has been sampled! Oh, and don't forget the toenail clippings on the bedroom floor!



But since it is 3:30 in the morning, you have been on the road for 17 hours, and you have 3 hours to sleep before your first meeting...you let it go and decide to say something to management on the way out the door the next morning.

So...

Sometimes the next morning you talk to management and they PROMISE to have the room cleaned properly before you get back that evening. But sometimes you get back at around 5:00 in the evening (plenty of time to clean)...and nothing has been done except that your bed is made...this time with stained sheets.

So you go BACK down to the management desk and talk to the (different) people there and explain your situation. But maybe they can't help you because the cleaning staff only works mornings. And they can't switch rooms because they are overbooked. So you have to go back up to your room for another night with the toenail clippings and the pubes.

And maybe by the third day they finally get it right, but by that time you have already found an apartment and are getting ready to leave town anyway.

But maybe you don't really care anymore because your cool new apartment is in the trendy neighborhood...



close to school...



and the new library.



And THAT, my friends, really did happen. :)