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Someone else would have to go and rent the cool apartment nobody wanted the day after I looked at it and really liked it. I wish I hadn't asked about the parking now, which prompted the realtor to say he'd get back to me Monday, which would end up being a day too late. Grr grr grr.

OTOH this frees me up to widen my search. I feel I should make a little effort to look at apartments available near my workplace. This would put me some distance apart my friends again -- but no longer than a subway ride, and the sad truth is that I do spend more time at work than I do with friends. Deedle dee. We'll see. I like pie. Today is also the day when I'll ask my boss about the voracity (yumma yum yum) of the rumors about our group's relocation north of the river. Cuz if I moved south and my job moved north, do you suppose I'd ever stop crying?


Update: Boss says "anything's possible", but it has no chance of happening over the next year. After that, the decision is up to our tyrannical overlords whether or not to geographically consolidate all the informatics-flavored groups under one roof at Kendall. At any rate, it's too vague to rule out the possibility of moving to Boston proper. So.

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Boss has instructed me to spend a couple of afternoons poring over recent issues of a certain journal. I have located the Harvard library that holds them, but it closes daily at five, except on weekends, when it closes forever!!! until Monday. My afternoons begin at, like, 7 p.m., so how lame is that? Meh meh meh. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow "morning" instead.

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The Escherian header image of the Chemistry & Chemical Biology webiste is pretty cool.

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Someone else would have to go and rent the cool apartment nobody wanted the day after I looked at it and really liked it. ...

I've had that happen to me at times. The worst one was when I was looking for a 2-bedroom place to replace the 3-bedroom place I'd been renting but could only find 1 roommate for. I remembered seeing a nice place a few buildings down the block which had a '2 Bedroom Apt For Rent' sign on it for the past couple months. I called to get scheduled for a showing and got to see it with a small group of two other potential renters.

I see the place -- looks okay -- but after everyone leaves I stick around to ask the existing tenants one simple question and then went out to meet the rest. By the time I had gotten outside he had rented the place to one of the other groups of people there. D'oh!