Zee Cheeldren of the Night

[saavedra77]

ryuusama recruited me to scout out a couple of Capitol Hill-area apartments, yesterday, in preparation for her planned move here, this summer. A series of excerpts from my reported findings follow, with her responses. Place names and some other revealing specifics have been omitted/changed to protect us both against all of you crazed LiveJournal stalkers:

saavedra77: The [apartment building's] structure is an unremarkable brick box, although it has nice, vaguely Tudor-looking arches everywhere, stained glass windows in the front doorway.

ryuusama: Since I'm used to apartment buildings looking like the melba toast equivalent of townhouses, this is actually a relief.

saavedra77: It doesn't look as though [the studio apartment] gets that much light.

ryuusama: Ze children of ze night make ze moost vunderful musik.

saavedra77: [In the one-bedroom place], the main room and kitchen windows form one big bank of natural light that's immediately apparent as you enter the apartment.

ryuusama: Argh! Your flaming ball of gas in the sky incinerates my sight orbs!

saavedra77: But the most overrated thing about this space [the one-bedroom apartment] is the bedroom: it's literally just large enough to fit a bed and (maybe) a night stand. But it does have a door, so if it's really important to you to have a separate, dark place to sleep, I guess that's good enough.

ryuusama: If I'm going to sleep in a tomb, I want it to be a real one. I'm currently saving up for a nice Greco-Roman piece in blue-veined marble, and have already put a down payment on some space in Blood Cemetary, NH. I haven't decided on an engraving, yet. Any ideas?

saavedra77: "Back in 5 minutes?"

saavedra77: I didn't see any telltale signs of skeeziness.

ryuusama: What, no strippers? No orgies in 2B? What about a martini lounge with overpaid, middle-aged white men with receeding hairlines puffing on cuban cigars and insisting they're not closet cases that secretly lust after svelt black men? Well, that's a deal breaker. I insist on skeeziness in the places where I live. It adds to the atmosphere and bolsters my self-esteem at the same time.

saavedra77: Although you can find that [skeeziness], a short walk away, on Broadway ...

ryuusama: Oh, okay. That's all alright, then.