Oh, marvelous!

I am coming to you today, not from my apartment, but from the apartment just across from my apartment. Why? I will tell you. Because there is a major electrical problem in my kitchen so they’ve put me in this apartment for the next few days while they go in through the walls and fix whatever the problem is. This situation, of course, is really stupid and begs the following questions: Did the person who lived in my apartment before I moved into it not notice that the kitchen (including fridge, stove, microwave and anything you could hope to plug into any of the outlets) didn’t work? Didn’t they notice that the fridge was doing a really good job at keeping everything at room temperature? Didn’t the university check to make sure the kitchen was working before I moved in? I ask myself. Anyhow, I probably shouldn’t complain because my new BFF Mike, from maintenance, is very nice and they’ve actually been very efficient about the whole thing (not like that stupid incident with Bell Canada two Septembers ago – but at least I got that great letter out of it) and I’ve been promised some kind of reimbursement, possibly in the form of money on my student card, which would be pretty sweet because they take my student card at Whole Foods so I could spend it all on ostrich eggs which are hopefully more delicious than emu eggs.

So, anyhow. Other than my apartment being broken, things have been pretty much great.

I keep talking about this new blog that I’m starting but I can’t start it because I can’t think of what to call it, which is clearly the most important thing. I was thinking of “Whistling Down the Northern Lights,” but that title reminds me of how sad I was about moving here a couple of weeks ago. Just now I thought that “Pelican Sightings!” might be a pretty good title because I got really excited the other day when we were in Malibu and I saw a pelican because I’ve never seen a pelican before (and am, apparently, easily amused by birds), but maybe that would be a dumb name for a blog. Or a great name. I don’t know. Blog names are a fickle business. So, yeah. Input would be great, you guys.