5.24.2005 An email from the current tenant of the apartment I'm supposed to move into a week from today:
Hi Ben, I hate to have to say this, but the landlord doesn't want to take you as tenants. He says he is going to find tenants on his own. I did fax him your forms, so maybe he'll reconsider and give you a call, but I'm doubtful. I'm sorry it didn't work out. Best, Margaret
5.05.2005 I was at Home Depot today--like I am almost everyday--and I was staring at a wall of various sized picture hooks, thinking, "I already have picture hooks, right? I definitely have picture hooks. I remember standing right here, debating which size picture hooks to buy, and wondering what I would do with twenty picture hooks. And that definitely happened, so I definitely bought them, so I don't need more picture hooks. If I bought another case of picture hooks, then I'd probably have thirty-eight spare picture hooks, and I'll just feel stupid for having bought the second case."
So now I have to drive all the way back to Home Depot, which is a boring, thirteen minute trek, to buy picture hooks for what is apparently the first time.
