Halfway Done

The script, or at least my portion of it for Episode 1 of the mini-series, is half done. Hopefully I can put it away tomorrow. At least that’s my theory.

I also finally got some input about that kiddy book, so somehow I’ve gotta’ figure out a way to squeeze in a third draft of changes for it, on top of the scripts I’m now committed to cranking out for the majority of October.

Annnnnd, we got a call from the real estate agent today, who’s worked out everything for the apartment we liked, and said that we can sign on the dotted line tomorrow night.

Not bad for a lazy Sunday.

Apartment Hunting

What an odd day.

The first part of the day was spent watching a couple of Chinese guys storm through our apartment and rip off the windows so that they could “re-screw” our window fixings to ensure that they don’t spontaneously fall out of the window frames and kill or injure anyone.

This, apparently, has happened recently, and as a result, all property owners are legally obligated to pay for a new procedure to retrofit windows with the new legally approved window refitting. So we got up at 10 in the morning today and watched them laborious remove one window panel after another, put new holes in the window frames, insert screws, and then reattach the glass panels. For whatever reason, this also seemed to involve a drill-type gun that spewed out lots of nail-like leftovers all over the floor.

We decided to be nice, because the family that lived above us actually came down and asked these window retro-fitters when they would come up and do their place. The answer was 1:oo pm, which was when said family was LEAVING for somewhere, so we let the retrofitters go up–since they assured us it would be very quick–and we’d just hang around and wait for them until they were done. We figured they’d be finished with us by 1:00. They ended up not getting done till 4:00.

But in the end, at least we got one more worry out of the way. We have found a new apartment. It’s actually still in the same general area that we’re living in now, just one train station further east. It’s also fully furnished, which gives us an excuse to start selling our existing furniture now so that we don’t have to worry about getting rid of it later when it comes time to relocate. It’s smaller, cozier, but somehow more designer-y, so we like it a lot.