Life at home

12 people in 2 days...not bad. Takes a bit more selling to get 'em to pay the same rent over here in Medfa'. I haven't had any problems finding people, but don't think I've ever showed a room to 6 people in a day.

Have you told that donkey to put some f'n clothes on outside his room? What a dickhead.

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!




((daggy, have fun...))

Where the hell is Dag going now?

She's going to Slovakia and Holland (I think).

We found someone for you Slappy, if you're looking for any new tenants. We call him funny Kevin.

Great, looks like you have a way better pool to select from than last year.

Here's what "membershipping" was like at our co-op, if you want any ideas:

People who wanted to live there had to

- attend (I think 3) meals.
- do some chores
- undergo about an hour-long interview that included questions like:

If someone on your floor keeps using your shampoo, how would you deal with it? If the person who is supposed to help you wash dishes blows it off, what would you do? If you bring over a friend and another housemate objects to that friend, what would you do?

Etc.

Sincerely hoping that your next housemate is a good 'un...

All of you ate all 3 meals together?

Or they had to eat meals and do chores before moving in?

Yeah.

Well, the co-op had meals nightly, and the person who was membershipping (trying to become a member of the co-op) had to come to at least one meal and I think 3 as part of the process.

It actually yielded a lot of good clues. (Whether the person just sat there glumly and shoveled in food or was sociable; how picky the person was, and how he or she expressed that; whether he or she expected to be served or was more participatory; whether he or she offered to help clean up; what he or she said about the food and whether he or she thanked the cooks; etc., etc.)

How about the guy that walked around in the nude, soz? How'd he make it through the screening process?

Oh, you edited.

I think I answered it anyway, but to clarify, yeah, that was part of the process of being accepted as a member. After the (3 or whatever the number was) meals, then the interview would happen, and the determination as to whether the person was accepted or not happened after the interview.

The process wasn't perfect. Sometimes there were a lot of applicants and we could pick and choose, sometimes there weren't. He got in during a drought. Bleh.

Well, he probably didn't show up for the meals nude.

Neither did HM#3 show up for the interview in his (Yechhc!) tight little underwear (shudder) and nothing else.

Oh, but that's not what i wanted.

Hi from Reykjavik!!! I have 8 hours here on the way to Amsterdam and Vienna and Bratislava (will be a looooooong day). It's after midnight and it's light outside! Though it's raining cats and dogs so I don't feel particularly enticed to go into the city. Will have 10 hours here on the way back.

Reykjavik - that's a place I would like to see, but not at midnight with it raining and long day ahead.

Dasha, I sent an email to R.H. and CCd you. I am continuing to have second thoughts. E.R. wants the place so badly. Sigh. We'll just wait for a day.

Hm. ER was nice, too. I don't know. But let's wait, I feel we kinda owe it to people to give them at least a couple of days after the weekend to decide, too. She will probably say no, since she's still 'thinking'. I hope ER will still be on board! I think she will.

Reykjavik airport staff runs around on little scooters. Foot powered. Last time I saw an adult on one of those was at the Prague castle - President Havel who hated the long corridors was using one between the presidential offices. They look, well, funny as hell.

Now there's a mental image..

How funny! Did you go out and about?

No out and about, it's raining cats and dogs, just like it was in Boston today. From mud into a puddle, as we Slovaks say.

Bwaaaahahaha, a policeman on a scooter!

heehee.....

Speaking of mental images: