Jun

23

Done.

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The condo is done. Not in the good way. Anybody got a place for me to live?

Jun

22

Blackout.

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Rumor has it that the power sub-station that serves NoDa and the surrounding area caught fire. What is not rumor is that this old mill gets DARK when the power goes out. I can’t see in front of my nose even with candles burning, and it’s so quiet I can hear the roof creak.

I don’t care for a massive black out. In truth, my own home and neighborhood are a bit scary in the dark.

Jun

19

Two long years.

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Today is my 2 year anniversary at McColl Center for Visual Art. How time flies when you’re having fun.

Jun

18

No closing.

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10 o’clock this morning came and it went, and there was no closing on my new condo.

Monday I found out that, because of a small bit of pending legal action (read: a nuisance lawsuit) again the Home Owner’s Association at what should be my new condo, I can’t get final approval on my mortgage. Technically, I can’t get approval right this minute - it could take up to two months. I can’t think of a seller on the planet who would want to wait that long to hear back about the final approval.

There is a plan B that is currently playing itself out somewhere in an office at Bank of America, and we’ll have to see where it’s going.

*sigh*

Jun

16

Kaboom.

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I just watched my mortgage application implode. The wheels didn’t just come off the wagon, they flew into the crowd crushing innocent spectators and their children to death.

Jun

16

Nightmare.

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Buying this condo has turned into a nightmare. I am supposed to close on Wednesday - a happy day - and instead get an email this morning with even more issues relating to financing. The closing may be delayed, which isn’t great since I’ve scheduled and paid for movers. But my bigger concern is that it isn’t too late for good ‘old Bank of America to come back and just say “nope. no financing, sorry.”

I just wanted a place to live and somewhere to call home. Instead I have unprecedented amounts of stress, hand cramps from signing my name, an astronomical phone bill, missing clumps of hair and movers with no place to move their moving.

Jun

11

Two days straight.

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I have worked, literally, for two days straight. I reported to the office bright eyed and bushy-tailed at 9 AM on Tuesday, stayed in the office until 11 PM or so when I left with work in tow. I worked through the night, catching almost exactly 30 minutes of sleep sitting on the floor of the shower this morning and was back at work at 7 AM. I stayed at the office until 5 PM when I went to the night-gig, worked until 10:15 PM and and now back at my office. I’ll be here until at least 1 or 2 AM.

Crazy you say? Yessir. Necessary? I suppose. Fun? Not-so-much.

I’ve got a HUGE presentation that is due in first draft tomorrow morning at 10, in addition to the regular work I have to do which includes the gaping black-hole of a time-suck that should be known as committees for redefining our web presence into a vital part of our programming.

Don’t misunderstand - I’m not complaining - I’m simply stating that it’s going to feel good to hit the bed with no intention of getting back out of it.

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Part deux:

On the home buying front, I think that the wheels are falling off the wagon. I don’t understand how everything that needs to be done, every paper that needs to be signed and every seller that needs to be throttled can be done, signed and throttled before Wednesday of next week. That’s the 18th ladies and germs. That’s the day that I am supposed to be a homeowner. Instead it may be another cranky Wednesday with the faint glimmer of home ownership on the horizon. Hopefully when the movers show up they’ll have somewhere to take my stuff. I guess if push comes to shove I can live in the moving truck.

I really hope it works out, if for no other reason than I found a WONDERFUL piece of art that will be mine if it’s even remotely reasonably priced. Mine, I say.

Jun

9

Mail.appetizer!

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You know that I’m a notorious emailer. Give me my MacBook Pro with Apple’s Mail.app or my iPhone over a phone call or text message any day. I have a bazillion folders, flags, Smart Folders and never delete my deleted items - just in case. So imagine my unadulterated glee when I learned one my my favorite plug-ins for Apple’s Mail.app, Mail.appetizer from Bronson Beta, was finally ready for Leopard! Yippee!

The only useful feature of Entourage is it’s new email notification (and Exchange capability, blah blah). Finally using Mail.app at work is more convenient! Now, just like my Windows using peers, I can choose to ignore emails based entirely upon their subject lines and sender and only pay attention to things that come from friends or immediate supervisors. (Note: if you work with me, you’ll know this is a lie. I usually respond to most messages before my colleagues are finished writing them.)

Jun

9

Too much.

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Between my knife-point incident Thursday, a nasty allergic reaction that left me heaving at work on Saturday and the on-going stress of buying real estate, I think it’s too much. As I told Lindsey at lunch, if I could just make the buying process stop and get all my money back I would.

I’m overwhelmed, a little afraid and way out of cash. The bank shows no sign of slowing down in the absurd amount of information that they need and if I have to sign my name one more time, I’m not going to recognize the words.

I’m not writing to complain. It’s more of a document of this particular stage of the home-buying process. Someone told me when I started that it was like adding another full time job while life kept happening around you. Ain’t that the truth.

Jun

6

Stabbings.

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Four people were stabbed in five robberies across Charlotte today. After what happened Wednesday night, that’s pretty damn scary.

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