...and is still out of budget. It's a gorgeous house, EXACTLY the right distance between Osbaldwick and rest-of-York (while still managing to not-quite be in Tang Hall), very nice floorplan (lots of bedrooms, one of which especially is well placed to be a spare-room/study if we rent out the others).

I come back to falling in love with this house once every few months. I wants it, but I can not have it - unless housing prices drop drastically or I can weedle a higher budget out of my dad. Realistically, both would have to occur, and while house prices are supposed to drop further this year, I rarely talk to my dad anymore and so the only gains in that quarter are in proving that I'm a responsible adult.

*sigh*

One can dream.
I'm trying to look on the positive side of having my bike vandalised. Today I went into town (took the 10 to Clifford Street/High Ousegate/Bridge St and then walked past the castle to the other bridge and down) to unlock the poor thing from next to the river where we'd driven it to, and carried it into the Bike Rescue Project place (asking directions from a couple of Council workers and and older guy who seemed to be going the right way).

There was a bit of faff (someone from one of the student newspapers was looking around) but the mechanic agreed with Ben's assessment - with the addition of 'You aren't cycling out of here with bike pads like that!' - and so they're going to do the fixing on Thursday so I can pick it up at some point after that. Yay! And not for too much money, either.

The more proof that I'm better better: with that weight off of my mind, I could enjoy walking leisurely along the river and then across the bridge. Then I spent the rest of the day* in town, pretty much. I spent money, but I now have warm boots that aren't reserved for larping. They also have no ankle support whatsoever, but they're pretty, and mean that I'm not going to get the freezing cold calves of 'my skirt comes down to my knees, my books cover my ankles, and tights just make the skin not exposed'. There was a sale in a shoe-shop in Coppergate. I am weak.

I also organised how getting my watch fixed needs to happen, and went into an estate agents. There was a house came on the market today, recently renovated, for relatively-cheap on Lamel Street. [livejournal.com profile] favouredenemy and [livejournal.com profile] clericalkender, what's that area like for living in? This would be a lot closer to the co-op than you are, but still.

Grr, I still need to organise food for tonight. I meant to shop on the way back, but it was rainy and miserable so I didn't, despite the day-bus-pass which I got just in case of flailing with buses this morning.


* I left home at half twelve.

SQUEE!

May. 8th, 2009 09:57 pm
I've got funding for my summer project! I get to be employed investigating 'Time-dependent quantum dynamics of interacting electrons in nanostructures'! Yay!


Also, LARP on Wednesday was awesome. And my downtime mission will be awesome. And if I can get back in time after my downtime mission, the mission on Sunday will be awesome. Yay for sense-talking rats and stupid rats and not-rats and stuck-up wolfkin. And the creepy crone of plot and win. And the jackals rubbing my backstory in my face.

...Now in addition to 'I called to Rat and Wolf and Gazelle and NOTHING HAPPENED!' (woe), I can say that if I offered Jackal everything I had, I might get a handful of leaves in return. Maybe. Hee.

Oh, gods cause so much angst. Why do people bother with them? I mean, really? XD


And because I couldn't resist, a drabble of character development. Claw is fun. )

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