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sutlers is rewatching Weiß Kreuz - the show featuring the ur-Bishounen of the Apocalypse - reviewing it, and posting screenshots. AWESOME. Episode 1. Episode 2.

This is Aya, our hero and resident pain-filled past stoic angstbucket. His weapon is a... snnnk... katana. He is voiced by Koyasu Takehito, who is the genius behind this show. Who also dyes and cuts his hair like this character. Which makes Weiß the single most awesome and nonsensical Mary Sue fantasy ever.

In other news, almost human today. Was stir-crazy so went to look at a new apartment complex five minutes from work. Fell in love with an apartment with an ATTACHED GARAGE. Also, they have TRASH PICKUP five days a week - you put it outside your door and SOMEONE MAKES IT GO AWAY. Let me repeat that: SOMEONE MAKES THE TRASH GO AWAY. Disgraced myself with a horrible coughing attack in the office - this is after sucking down cough suppressant and mainlining cough drops all day, but that's the way my colds go. Went home, talked it over with Mom, and tomorrow I shall go back and slap my money down. Especially because THEY ARE WILLING TO HOLD IT FOR ME UNTIL JUNE. I don't have to pay ANYTHING. And the first month's rent is free, so I can spend June slowly moving in and not having to pay rent on two apartments at the same time. Yay. It's a new complex, so I'm the first person to live in this apartment.

If you go to this page and scroll down to the One Bedroom A2 (the official name of this floorplan, according to the brochure, is 'Taliesin,' which I know how to pronounce, as I spent a semester in Wales). That is the non-garage version of the floorplan, from the third floor. The garage version of the floorplan, on the second floor, has a chunk taken out of the dining room that is a stairway going down to the garage and the MASSIVE AMOUNT OF STORAGE SPACE on the first floor. Also, the apartment I toured does not ahvbe that weird niche in the bedroom, but does have a strange slightly smaller and higher window placed where the niche would be if it were on the third floor. There is also a chunk taken out of the walk-in closet there for the stairwell, but that's OK because did I mention the MASSIVE AMOUNT OF STORAGE SPACE downstairs attached to the garage? The kitchen is all black and stainless steel and makes me feel like I should be on HGTV. I'm going to take my zoot-zoot* and a pencil and make them let me into an empty apartment to measure it tomorrow, as the floorplan here is not actually to any scale known to man and the bedroom door is not where it appears to be on this plan.

* Fmaily-speak for "tape measure".

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Aa sou desu ka. I was wondering, since you mentioned the fun that the cat would have there. XD

And the best part is that as you reach the bottom of the stairs and the door to the garage is in front of you, to your left is a big niche you can use for storage. And when you step through the door, to your right is the space for the car and to your left is a huge space with more storage.

Woot. Storage is of The Good. Quite worth losing part of the closet for, since it sounds like you wind up with more storage overall. :D

Yup! Apparently you're supposed to store your bikes in that area (it'll fit a *lot* of bikes...), and if I decided to go ahead and buy a bike, I'm just far enough from campus that it's worth biking. I'm just a wee bit too far to walk, as I am an American. Well, and as the weather is often 90°+ here and I don't wish to arrive at work soaked in sweat.

Yeah, I know that feeling. I actually am within even American walking distances of work, and have yet to walk there. So far, it's either too cold, too hot, or I'm running too far behind to get to work in time if I don't use the car. XD

I ought to park in the remote lot on the east side of campus, where I am am, because it is a less than five minute walk*, But instead I make sure to get to campus before 8AM, to park in the lot next to the library.

* And yet everyone waits for the shuttle bus. When I walked back to my car on Wednesday, which was parked in that lot because I got in late, I passed the shuttle bus going into the lot where it stops and waits to pick people up, and when I got to the lot where my car was, I walked in front of the shuttle moments after it came to a stop to let off the people it had picked up when I was walking by it earlier. GAH.

That would be because people are laaaaazy. I should know, I'm one of them - although unless the weather is really nasty, I'd rather deal with the walk than the passengers on the bus. ;)