Things have been crazy moving Ryan and Mykala into their new apartment. Trips to Target, Ikea, Saver’s, have all been successful in furnishing their new digs. My first trip to Ikea was more overwhelming than I thought it would be, but I am particularly impressed with some of their items (100% virgin wool area rugs, for one). In the moving process, I’ve learned about steam cleaning (specifically, lime deposits from dried hard water are REALLY REALLY HARD and clog things up REALLY BADLY), old toilets, lead dust, water filtering, utilities, security, and hanging things on old walls. To that final point:

You know that part in the Matrix (the first movie … the best movie), where the whole crew is trying to escape a building by moving down the inside of a wall? That is what I suspect these apartment walls are made out of. That is, a split lath back (a wood lattice) covered by plaster (gypsum and horsehair, generally). This means, for lighter applications, the entire wall is a stud. However, because plaster repair is rather a bit more complicated than simple gysum board spackling, I do hope the landperson doesn’t mind us mounting things on the wall and leaving them there. Ooh! Which reminds me, I bought a house-warming present for the … apartment (can we call it a house and apartment?). It’s from Target: an above-the-toilet-shelf curvy towel miscellaneous bathroom item holding chromed hopefully won’t rust shelving unit!

What I’m getting at, is, beginning to live in the real world outside of sheltered college means concerning yourself with every aspect of life: paying for electricity, stopping up leaks, keeping things up to code, painted, and ensuring your home is secure. It’s amazing how many of these things I intellectually acknowledged as “taken care of” here in the dorms, but never realized how important they are when taking a step off campus.

The move must be a great feeling of liberation and a sometime-stressful mostly-enjoyable learning experience. Mykala and Markoe, I’ll help you guys out with everything I can, and I wish you the very best in your first real-world abode.

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