Update: Monday 20 May

Hi! Remember when I said that posting so often would probably come back and bite me in the butt? That I'd run out of things to say and then you wouldn't see me for a while? That's what happened. I've just had nothing to say for a while.

Now I'm apartment-searching, though. I'll be moving out during the first week of August, and I was going to wait until it was a bit closer to that time because I know that people wait until about a month before to start posting their rooms. Then I had this sudden panic that I won't be able to find anything at all and I'll have to move out of my apartment and onto the streets and… well, that just didn't sound like a good idea for some reason. I have only been scanning the posts on this website for about a week, but when things come up that look really good I feel like I should jump on them, because who knows how long they'll be available before someone else wants it. The problem is that I know half of them would rather take anyone else besides me because if their apartment is available from May 25, they want someone paying from May 25. They don't want someone who isn't coming until August.

But… I have found an apartment that is right near the market and it's within my price range. They wanted someone from the first of July but she told me that if I like the apartment, maybe I can pay half price for July and then move in when my current apartment contract is up. I emailed to set up an appointment to see the apartment but no response yet, so we'll see. I want to not have to worry about this anymore.

Last week I bought inline skates. On marktplaats, which to me feels like a combination of a Dutch version of craigslist and ebay. I bought them from a lady in Tilburg for €7.50 and she shipped them to me, they look and feel brand new so she probably never used them. I want to use them as my main mode of transportation so I need to go use them more often to get accustomed to it. I went out and skated for a couple hours the day after I got them, it was pouring so the ground was slippery. Probably wasn't the brightest idea to go out at that time, but I didn't fall so that's a plus. I think it's been years and years since the last time I skated.