A Place to Sleep

I found a place to live! I moved left Sayjal's room yesterday with my three bags and moved to 568 W 149th St New York, NY 10031. Then I headed up to Target to get an air-mattress so I could finally have something to sleep on. The room I moved into had two of it's walls painted a ghastly pink/magenta, and although I thought about going to the final Mets game (good thing I didn't, sorry Michael) I helped out my new housemates (Chad and Thaddeus) paint the room. The pink/magenta didn't really bother me, it wasn't pretty, but they had insisted they intended to paint it before I even came, they even had paint and brushes ready when I got here yesterday.
Last night I couldn't help but think my room looked like a crack den. There was an air matress on the floor, poorly painted walls and not much else in the room. I should have gotten a picture of it, but I just got my internets going today, sorry folks.





The neighborhood is nice, its mostly Dominican/Puerto Rican families with very few sprinkles of younger white people that are beginning to move into the area. I'm right on Broadway and 149th, my stop is at 145 on the 1 train, or I can go down 145th to St. Nicholas for the A train. It's not the part of Broadway you may think of first, but I like it. I'm happy with the room, and the people. The room is about the size of my room at home, maybe a little smaller since the closet protrudes out into the room, but its a decent amount of space I can work with. My housemates are both in Education as well, Chad is an Educational Consultant, teaching teachers, and Thaddeus is a Teacher, working with kids trying to earn their GED in order to go to college, and they were both English majors, so there's 3 English majors and teachers of different sorts all under one roof, should be fun. I only signed a 6 month lease, just to try it out first, I was a little wary at first being unfamiliar with the area and hearing from all different types of people that they didn't want to live above a certain street, but the area is fine, I walked around the other night at like 11 without a problem and one of my housemates came back late last night with no problems. I was going to go ahead and sign for a year, but I figured 6 months was good for now since I'm new in this town. The best part about this place is the price! It's about 4-5 hundred dollars cheaper than the other places I was looking at, which is great as someone who's going to have to start paying back some loans in November, and also as someone who is cheap.
Well I think we're going to get back to work with another coat of paint soon, but I wanted to share the good news with all of you readers (I'm not sure if there are many). I'll see about getting some pictures of my place up soon as well, it may still resemble a crack-den a little, but I also bought some curtains today, so maybe things will start to look up.

Bobby Womack - Broadway Walk