I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do

[sovay]

Yesterday we packed all the books out of my office; today we took down the shelves. The room looks simultaneously cavernous and smaller, full of loud flat echoes, and I am not comfortable in it. Tomorrow we put most of our furniture in storage.

On the other hand, tonight I saw a total lunar eclipse and a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and that was really nice.

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[kore]

The one time it was clear enough to see a lunar eclipse here, and I was napping. ARGH.

Did you guys find a new place? Is it nice?

[sovay]

Did you guys find a new place? Is it nice?

We didn't. derspatchel was not able to find more than part-time minimum-wage work before our money ran out, meaning we were not able to afford to move to a new apartment together—we couldn't afford the move-in costs and we didn't have the income to guarantee monthly rent. He is taking the cats and moving in with a friend, I am taking my books and moving in with my cousins. We have been packing our stuff all weekend and today we start putting it in storage. He had a job interview this morning, but even if it comes through with full-time work, it will be too late for an October 1st move-in. He was out of work for a full year and then only earning very part-time. I could not make enough to support two people and two cats singlehandedly. It is horrible. I wish I could report otherwise!

[kore]

Oh no, that's horrible. I'm so sorry. The economy in this country is so fucked.

[sovay]

The economy in this country is so fucked.

I admit it would have helped if (a) there were more jobs that paid enough to live on (b) housing prices in our area were not batshit insane.

[yhlee]

I'm so sorry. I hope the situation improves soon. Best wishes to derspatchel with job stuff.

[sovay]

I hope the situation improves soon. Best wishes to derspatchel with job stuff.

Thank you. We have our fingers crossed. It is a surreal level of sub-optimal outcome.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

May you and spatch and the little cats soon find a welcoming home.

I am glad you saw such gorgeous visions.

Nine

[sovay]

May you and spatch and the little cats soon find a welcoming home.

Thank you. I wish we were moving into one now. I wish a lot of things were different.

I am glad you saw such gorgeous visions.

I came out at the intermission of 2001 and everyone was standing on the sidewalk outside the theater, looking up: I followed their gaze and there was a copper-smoky moon, just disappearing a bright rind of itself. All it needed was a black monolith, turning in space between the sun and the earth and its shadow on the moon. It was perfectly timed.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Echoing nineweaving's wish. I sincerely hope you're very soon in a new place.

[sovay]

Echoing nineweaving's wish. I sincerely hope you're very soon in a new place.

Thank you. It's looking like it's going to be a month at least before we can find a new apartment, so we'll be living in separate friends' houses and visiting often. I want to make sure the cats remember me. It is almost incomprehensible how badly this has all gone, except that it's real, so I have to live with it.