Tuesday, December 26, 2006
New Year's Resolution: get a new housemate! As those who speak to me regularly would know, for the last two weeks I've been frantically engaged in a search for two housemates, because my hipster housemates told me on 8 December that they would both be moving out on 22 December.
This is the worst possible time to be finding new housemates. There is the busyness factor: finding time to interview prospective housemates while trying to finish off end-of-year work and taking part in the usual round of pre-Christmas social activities. Then there has been the financial pressure of having the entire house's rent deducted from my bank account as usual without housemates to reimburse me, at a time when I have been spending money on Christmas presents and socialising, and I won't be earning any more money until two weeks into January.
I have already found someone for the larger of the two empty rooms. The housemate in question is a friendly man in his early 30s who will henceforth be known as "Foxtel Steve". But the smaller (but with most excellent built-in storage space) and astoundingly well-priced room is still vacant. Because of the price and the size, most people who've contacted me about it have been travellers who only want somewhere for a couple of months (I want someone to stay until at least August next year), strange quiet people who make me uncomfortable, or nervous desperate people who make me uncomfortable.
So:
Why don't you email me?
This is the worst possible time to be finding new housemates. There is the busyness factor: finding time to interview prospective housemates while trying to finish off end-of-year work and taking part in the usual round of pre-Christmas social activities. Then there has been the financial pressure of having the entire house's rent deducted from my bank account as usual without housemates to reimburse me, at a time when I have been spending money on Christmas presents and socialising, and I won't be earning any more money until two weeks into January.
I have already found someone for the larger of the two empty rooms. The housemate in question is a friendly man in his early 30s who will henceforth be known as "Foxtel Steve". But the smaller (but with most excellent built-in storage space) and astoundingly well-priced room is still vacant. Because of the price and the size, most people who've contacted me about it have been travellers who only want somewhere for a couple of months (I want someone to stay until at least August next year), strange quiet people who make me uncomfortable, or nervous desperate people who make me uncomfortable.
So:
- Are you friendly, humorous and sociable?
- Tired of constantly moving and want to be part of a stable, congenial, long-term household?
- Want to live within walking distance of all Carlton and Fitzroy's delights?
- Are you busy and outgoing, and tend to use your room mainly for storing your stuff and sleeping? (Especially sleeping in.)
- Do you appreciate a variety of public transport options?
- Like the sound of a comfortably appointed double-fronted cottage house with an idyllic back garden in which to drink cups of tea and bottles of alcohol?
- Want to move in before the first week of the new year is out?
Why don't you email me?
