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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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This sounds soo great. I bought my flat in a house which is only seven years old and there's a real difference to flats I've lived in before (of the 20 to 30 year old house variety). I'm the second owner, but the first one rented it out, so no idea how many people have lived here before.

The only thing which comes to my mind you might want to check is how thick your ceiling is, so you won't get disturbed by your neighbours like you have been.

It's amazing how much inbuilt storage you have. They just don't do that here, you have to bring your own shelves. I've got one dedicated storage room off the hallway and that's it. Okay I've got a larger room in the community cellar, too and we have a community room for our washing machines and dryers down there, too.

Storage space sells things here - if you watch House Hunters and shows like that on HGTV, everyone's looking for storage space, because apparently America is populated by packrats.

On those shows, you also see people living in a 2700-square-foot house say they're moving because the house is too small, which makes me all O.O.

I wish it sold it here, too. Another question: is that all real wood or are they doing mdf with veneer furniture?

Is the complex built out of wood or bricks? I have that nebulous stereotype that except for office buildings, etc. you guys don't build in stone (brick or concrete) which is VERY different from my part of Germany.

Some people will never have enough space ^^.

They're proud of their wood-framed mirrors in the bathroom, but as they tout their "faux wood" flooring in the brochure, I have my doubts about the cabinetry. But I could be wrong.

The complex is brick, with concrete bits. Probably mostly concrete with just an outer cladding of brick. There's a tiny photo of the exterior of one of the buildings here (http://lincolnapts.com/communities/dsp_SearchResults.cfm?CommuID=1268&pageSubNavigationID=FeaturesServices), at the bottom. My building looks exactly like that, except that instead of a green lawn and pathway on one side, I've got the complex's driveway on both sides, and there's garages instead of apartments on the bottom floor of my unit.

Ah, another stereotype laid to rest. RIP.

The house my mom lives in currently happens to have cedar planking! But the one she just bought has brick. XD

The wood content depends a lot on the age of the house. Old Victorians, turn-of-the-century houses, and cheap older houses tend to be wood, while new developments tend to build in brick.

ETA: Ironically, someone on my f-list just posted photos of her house (http://badnoodles.livejournal.com/254399.html). This is pretty much an average house, barring fluctuations in styles of windows, doors, and colors, that's been built in the last 30 or so years around here. Scale it up to get a McMansion.

looks a lot like my exchange-partner's house in Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee, although they had a two-floor building.