I’m using the community computers at the coffee house down the street to write this post. Since my landlord is showing my apartment to a prospective renter right now. This will be the first of many showings of the place until I move out of it at the end of the month.

Yep, the same day I punched out the window I got a knock on the door from my landlord. I was mistaken about when our arrangement for a month-to-month lease was over, and it wasn’t the end of February like I thought, but right now.

Luckily, I’m a total nomad and have very few belongings–which is how I like it. I could gather up all my stuff in my knotted comforter and carry it on my back, save my computer. Until it shit the bed*, my 19″ monitor was the biggest thing I owned except for my mattresses. Which live on the floor.

So. After my landlord informed me my stay was abbreviated, I did the only thing I knew to do: I told the VCB, who was hiding in the bathroom, “Suprise! I’m moving in!”

[*Dana says “shit the bed.” Doesn’t that make you just love her?]
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