Yes, but which one of you wants me MORE?

Well, I just sent U of T my "thanks but no thanks" email. Nothing has ever felt more empowering! Yesterday I sent Concordia my hug-in-an-email thanks-for-wanting-me i-love-you-so-much email and they wrote back within five seconds, a long and semi-rambling happy email that humanized them for me and made me so excited I had to do that wiggle-on-a-spot happy dance a-la-Natalie Portman (I don't think I've ever used so many dashes in one sentence before). You can request a demonstration, I did one for Derek yesterday. It's great not being able to eat due to excitement, rather than due to other less productive emotions. Yesterday I went to see an apartment at Bayfield, those buildings right behind Saugeen - it was a one-bedroom, up high with a balcony, a decent guy offering me a sublet, a guy SO decent that he doesn't mind Tycho... at first he wanted $450/mo. for it, but after a while he relented and said $400 would be fine. I thought it was a done deal but today I'm having doubts. Turns out phone & internet aren't included in that sum (though hydro & cable are, and he's leaving all his furniture and TV set and everything). I could probably live without internet (especially since I'll be a thirty second walk away from campus where wireless waves abound!) and the guy works for Bell so he says that with his discount I'll pay just $60 for the whole summer for a phone. So it'll be $415 a month, basically. I have been spoiled rotten with my $270/month at Woodward so I have no idea if this is a good price or not! Thoughts?

On an unrelated note, the termostat gauge of how much money I'm getting for free next year keeps rising (also contributing to the happy dance), but the problem is that none of that money kicks in until September, so I've got to muddle through until then! Maybe I'll just charge admission to my apartment to help subsidize. $5 for me to buzz you up, $10 to sit on the couch, $15 to sit on the balcony. Special package for $30: I'll mix you a drink and sing you love ballads while you sit on the balcony.

Really I'm just trying to make luxurious decisions like "Can I afford to go to BC?" and "Can I afford to buy a swimsuit?" which is nice compared to the "Can I afford to eat?" kind of questions.

Lack of blogging due to a decided un-lack of school work, but I can see the light at the end of the essay-lined tunnel now. Today it's supposed to get up to 18 degrees! I'm so eating an ice cream cone.