Week 5: Me and my new (rather empty) home.

quick update because i'm still here in the lab waiting for a ride home:

it's been nearly a week since i've moved into the new apartment (a week on sunday) and i must say that the place is really starting to grow on me! in the morning, the sun floods into my room and it feels great waking up to light (unlike my old place where the light comes in like an after-thought into my room). there's something quite energizing about waking up and seeing sunlight glint off my hair making it a lighter shade of brown (vain moment) but yea. and then in the evening, the setting sun once again floods its way into my living area and all i can see when i look out the balcony is a great big ball of fire slowly being swallowed by the impending darkness.

plus, the neighbourhood is pretty quiet. there's quite an eclectic mix of people here and they're the good eclectic kinds. there are families with young kids and plenty of young adults like me. at night it gets pretty quiet and i've noticed, within the one-ish week that i've been here, that i'm the last one to fall asleep because all the lights around me are turned off by the time i walk into my bedroom. and i'm not talking about me sleeping at 2-3 a.m. since i've moved into the new place, there has been no internet therefore i actually go to sleep by around 11-12 every day. an amazing feat, i know.

back to having no internet, everytime i think about going home from the lab and the internet-less situation, i die a little inside. but to be really honest, i'm not too rushed about getting an internet connection - i don't know, i kinda like these internet-less nights (sadistic) in a weird sort of way because i get to settle down with a nice dvd (y tu mama tambien) before going to bed. it's something that i've never been able to do before because i would be so preoccupied with the interweb.

anyway, i had a minor paranoia attack on my first alone night at the new place. during the day, tammy was telling me about break-ins occurring on the first levels of apartment blocks and as i was closing the balcony door her words came rushing back to me. this was because i noticed there were two big rips on the fly screen neatly where the sliding door's handle was and down below near the latch for the door. WTH was there a break-in before that's why the place is now empty?! SHIT LA AND THERE ARE NO LOCKS ON MY FUCKING BEDROOM DOOR! panic. then as i closed the screen door i realised that he wouldn't have been able to break in without actually breaking the glass door (funny how i automatically assume that the criminal would be male HAHAHA so funny). and if they did that, the whole neighbourhood would know. and i would be safe. so i laughed. and went back to bed. but not before leaving all the lights on in my kitchen and living area. better safe than sorry you know. but, well, i'm not paranoid anymore so there, tammy, your words won't frighten me anymore *sticks out tongue*.

anyway, i really wish that you all can see it now - it is really quite lovely.

ok i gotta go now. my ride is here BYE BYE if i don't see you online in the daytime!