Earlier I was sort of depressed because looking for a new roommate is not fun. I was filtering in all the emails from craigslist & everyone who wrote somehow managed to sound simultaneously younger & more accomplished than I am. There were 23-year-old law students, 25-year-old gallery directors, 20-year-old sculptresses whose boyfriends have great apartments they'll probably be staying at most of the time anyway, & on & on like that. They did sound like decent roommates tho so I invited them over. & it turned out last nite we had a flurry of applicants up to our place, one after the other, & they were all -- save one horrible one -- completely perfect & charming & normal.
"I wish we could take them all in," I said wistfully to Joel when they had all gone. "& think of our rent...!"
The best part was that my friend Laura just moved here from Chicago & if she doesn't get this other place that's a really great deal she will be moving in. Under the guise of just being a friend over for a beer Laura got the grand tour along with a little graphic designer who had just moved here from Toronto. The little graphic designer gave us these laminated business cards she'd had made & seemed very enthusiastic about being in New York.
"So like, what kind of music are you guys into?" she wanted to know.
"I don't know, stuff, everything, whatever," I said, with my best Williamsburg-weary look. "Probably the same music everyone else around here listens to."
"Yeah, we
love indie rock," Laura deadpanned.
The little graphic designer didn't know what to make of that but she was very excited about the possibility of moving in. "Will you let me know even if you don't pick me?" she said. "& if you don't pick me but you hear of another place like this one will you let me know? Or, you know if the person you pick doesn't work out or something will you let me know about that too?" she said.
I looked at her laminated business card again, touched. "Sure," I said. "Sure I will."
& that's the story on the new-roomie front. They were all awesome. Except the horrible one, who was pretty horrible.
