Wisconsin!

[jain]

At the last minute (read: five days before moving), I decided to move to Madison rather than Milwaukee, mostly because it has a hostel that remains open beyond early August and it made my mother happier. So my mother, two of my sisters, the minister's son (he's my sisters' close friend), and I set out in the minivan, courting sleep deprivation on the non-stop drive to Madison...especially since one of my sisters is too young to drive and the minister's son doesn't have a green card yet and hence can't get his license.

They dropped me off at the hostel--which was lovely; very friendly and wonderful people--and set off for Iowa to drop the elder of my sisters at college. And, after walking a million or so miles, I found an apartment. My mother came back up and cosigned the lease the next day, and the minister's son and my sister helped move me into my room.

It's a glorified dorm room, quite literally--the building used to be a UW dorm--so I have a mattress on the floor, a refridgerator, a dresser, and quite a nice walk-in closet. Plus a bathroom down the hall and a kitchen and a laundry room in the basement. Despite these minor irritants--I was very much looking forward to having a kitchen of my own, finally--the room is really lovely: high ceilings, wooden floor, cream walls and purple trim on the windows.

I've gotten a library card already, and now the only hurdle left is finding a job. Oh, and checking that the smoke detector is working. How exactly does one do that?

Comments

[xoverau.livejournal.com]

I wonder if your mother knows that Milwaukee is the place to go if you really want to study at school and Madison is the place to go if you want to do hallucinogens, join a weird religion, buy incense by the gross, and wake up somewhere in your junior year going "I failed what?"

*snickers*

Ah, yes. Madison. The party city.

[jain]

I'm just establishing residency this year; if I get accepted to the University of Wisconsin, I'll still have to move to Milwaukee, which has the Gay and Lesbian Studies program. In the meantime, though, Madison's more accessible to the car-less. Plus, my mom--well, she wouldn't say it like this, but it's essentially the truth--got a better vibe from the idea of me moving to Madison, and, since she can be oddly prescient about certain things...

[xoverau.livejournal.com]

Heh, well, obviously you can study anywhere, and you don't have to behave like John Belushi on a bender, so. I hope you enjoy your first year. And if worse comes to worst, you can always call me or write me letters or something. I'd be amenable. :)