Success!!

Yay! So today I got a call from Stephanie, my new roommate! She is very cool and she wants me to move into her apartment starting October 1. It is a 2 bedroom and my room is REALLY small, but it's a cool apartment, and she's awesome. She's a hairstylist and when I walked into the apartment, I saw more Bed Head product than I usually see at a salon, plus she has this really tiny little dog. I was sold right then and there. It's right in the heart of the East Village, exactly where I wanted to be. So this is a huge relief, I was starting to stress about not finding something, but it all worked out.
Hurricane Katrina did not make my house hunting trip easy at all. I had more than a full 40+ hours worth of work to do while I was there, yet, I was supposed to be looking for a place at the same time. No complaining though, while I was slightly inconvenienced, many others are now looking for homes not becuase they're moving, but because their homes were destroyed.
But phew, it's all set!
Now, the packing begins. I don't actually have to pack, but I do have to eliminate a lot of crap that I have at my apartment now. I think the new place I'm moving into has about as much total space as my apartment now, and I only get 1 bedroom's worth. So all the stuff I've accumulated, has to go! My favorite thing so far from my packing: I was looking at all the stuff in my closet that I could donate to the hurricane relief effort and I came across and extra tennis racket. I thought to myself, they don't need tennis rackets, then I thought better of it and said, "Anne, some people lost everything, don't you think that also includes athletic equipment?!"
Thank you Cher Horowitz.