what we should really do is convert all these parking garages into bike shelters.

parking should be scarce and expensive.

make the fuckers ride.

and put the profits into a green energy fund...

i mean, how do you even know that an empty room is really a bedroom?

if it's empty, is it not void of bed?

and, if a room has not bed, from whence does this idea of it being a "bedroom" even come?

it could just as easily be a one bedroom + an office, or a one bedroom + a studio - both of which have some relevance in my proposed utilization of the particular space.

a room is a room is only a bedroom if you insist on it; it could be anything at all, if you want it to be.

so, stop oppressing me with your arbitrary prejudices and idealized preconceptions.

my preferred option has again reappeared in the listings.

this is very unusual, captain. it almost seems as though the apartment has developed some kind of cloaking technology. but, how this happened - and what developed it - is not entirely clear at all.

what to do?

have to call again.

why do i need a two bedroom apartment? well, i don't. i need a relatively big non-smoking apartment. it can have one or two bedrooms. it can even be a loft. it's total footage i'm looking at.

what i'm looking at is the price - $750 + hydro, and the floor size - 600 square feet.

now, it should be obvious how i'll arrange a two bedroom apartment, granted.

but, no i don't need two bedrooms, exactly - i need the space.

and, focusing on how the number of rooms is to be enumerated or classified is missing the point.

do you think people in the rooming house would mind if i set up the drum kit in the living room?

it's not a serious idea.


drop it.

i need a dedicated space...

i'm highly agitated right now.

i just need to sit down for the night and work.

when i came down to windsor initially, i made it abundantly clear that i was looking for my own space to live.

i came down with two unemployed people: one on short term ei and the other with no discernible income at all. the reason these people were unable to find accommodations is that they were unable to provide a reliable income source.

i was on full time disability, which is a small but reliable source.

i made it clear that i was not particularly interested in signing a lease with these people, as they seemed shifty and untrustworthy. i made it clear that i had expensive gear that i needed to keep in a locked space, and flatly didn't trust leaving them alone with. further, as i was the only one of us with an actual income source, i would have been the primary lessor - and taken on liability for two unemployed people. i could not reasonably do that, and nobody would have reasonably allowed me to do that, either.

i became aware some time later that these people badly misinterpreted the scenario. these are the kinds of people that interpret the world through the lens of hierarchy and dominance, so they found it unacceptable that a loser such as myself could find an apartment, while their superior innate coolness couldn't. but, i had an income source and they didn't. it was really that simple.

again: my intent was to find a one bedroom apartment, because i needed a safe space to store my gear. i was willing to entertain other suggestions, but i did not at any point take them very seriously. i did not and still do not want to live in a house with other tenants.

and, suggestions otherwise are a combination of malice and poorly placed jealousy.

that one option i was taking seriously just mysteriously got rented. i dunno.

and, i've decided against the place i saw this morning, as it was clearly not explicitly non-smoking.

i need an explicitly non-smoking place. period.

i saw something today that i might consider taking, but they want a certified cheque as a part of the rental application, and i'm not quite willing to pay that out, yet.

i think i want the unit i can't get in to see. i'll try again tomorrow morning.

see, this is the kind of listing that is pissing me off...

i don't want to share a room with a hindi teenager, and i don't really want to live in a female-only rooming house, either. nor do i want a furnished space. but, a non-smoking basement apartment for $700 is pretty much exactly what i want.

it says "near university", but it's not like it's on a campus or anything. it's just downtown.

three or four years ago, this would have been rented to a low income person for $500-600, unfurnished. but this influx of students has created what almost seems like an immigration ring. i mean, you can tell from the grammar that this person is chinese. and, they're not merely looking for a student, but an asian one.

i'm not being alarmist. i'm not making things up. these ads are quite plentiful. the truth is that there's lots of housing available....

...it's just being sat on by international buyers, who are building some kind of business model on this diploma mill. what they really want is a commercial relationship with the sponsor. and, it's a good guess that the different landlord have different agreements with the different sponsors...

so, what is going to happen in september when classes start? are they going to open up what's left? sit on it?

if this is the reality here, so be it - i'll need to start looking in niagara, or waterloo, or london. but, i need my fucking court order, first.