jesspeth (& jokes)

saw jessica hooray! much fun!

also, although i missed long-awaited Lecha Dodi lecture, the upshot was that I was able to choose cake (rather than death) at buckydt's.



And in case this post is too boring... bonus joke!

(source: email from a joke-teller i don't know him)

What it means to "secure a building" to the different branches of the armed services:

Marines: sniper teams on the roof, sandbag machine-gun nests
at all entrances and every 50 meters of perimeter, barbed wire
out at 100 meters, and security teams roving the hallways.

Army: An armed guard at each entrance, and a security detail at
the front desk.

Navy: Base security will come by every night to make sure the doors
are locked and the lights are out.

Air Force: Take out a five year lease with option to buy.

apartment visit

Visited my first apartment prospect tonight. It's the 3.5-er in Arlington Heights. I wasn't honestly expecting to like it very much, so it was a good one to start with.

I surprised myself by liking it much more than I was expecting to. Although I hope & expect to find other places that are nicer enough that I stop considering it. This place is quirky. Probably too quirky. I doubt I'm bohemian enough to make it home well.

Plus you can't stand up in the tub (dormer). That should be a deal breaker -- how can I deal w/ my hair if I can't stand up in the tub and need one hand to hold the showerhead? I'd stain the ceiling AND probably bash my head alot. I'm posture-unconscious like that. (It's not like the Arlapt upstairs bathroom, where you could stand in the tub at the one end although not in the other.)

Also, the wallpaper I liked least in the place had "sentimental" value to the landlady. Other walls are paintable, though (one's already a pretty lavender).

I really like the factory-style to-the-ceiling transom windows over the doorways.