sorted

just scored the sweetest deal on our house for next year.

the irony is that around this time last year, i was revising for the bar exam, and tenancy agreements were part of the conveyancing module. fast forward one year and i'm putting that stored away knowledge to good use by striking unfavourable clauses out of our tenancy agreement. what a power trip! life's funny sometimes ;)

back to our pad-to-be!

in order of priority, it's 

1) huge (my new room is literally four times the size of my current!)

2) 50m from the pub / deli

3) 200m from the gym

4) 200m from medsch

5) 10min walk from the city

5) within our paltry student budget

there is so much space that we were tempted to turn cartwheels up and down from the front door to the back yard. the rooms are massive and it even has a garden (!!!). suppose one of the toss ups when it came to moving from where i'm currently staying (10min walk to medsch, 5min walk to city and right next to "the road with all the pubs and restaurants") to, basically closer to medsch, was that i go to school every day (yup, i'm keen that way!) and only go out a few nights a week. i believe this increased proximity to the medical library will have a direct beneficial impact on my grades ;) in theory, anyway.

but yay to wonderful housemates (one real, more than a few imaginary) and being sorted for the year. this house hunt had been driving me crazy and i'm relieved we held out for the one. then again, it probably boils down to being spoilt and refusing to walk more than 10min to class on a daily basis. and vehemently refusing to cycle. self-limiting as that may sound, it's really not so bad when i can roll outta bed and into uni all in the span of ten minutes.

had a lovely celebratory hot chocklit partayy after, and now off to my first ever christmas ceilidh, incidentally held in the church right next to house 2012/13!