Good news: we just found an apartment. It's cute, clean, bright, partially furnished, and one of few apartments in Germany with kitchen appliances and light fixtures already installed. It's in the same town as our other dream apartment [still crying over that one] and I think we'll be very happy there. Alfredo especially likes that it has a fireplace. He was drooling over visions of steak sizzling on an open fire, the way they do it back home in Uruguay. That's a feasible idea since the fire place is in the kitchen, which is also the dining room and living room. Yes, it's a small apartment, but we're going to make it in to a nice home. I can't wait to move in!
Bad news: We can't move in until April 1. The guy we're subleasing from right now comes back this week at some mysteriously ambiguous point in time which Alfredo defines (without concern) as "a few days before the end of the month...I think..." Which means some time between now and Friday, but we're not really sure. So after a semi-frantic scouring of the housing market (now my specialty) I found a great short-term vacation rental that happens to be available from now until the end of March. It's a beautiful place, and wonderfully large - a separate kitchen, a dining room, a living room, and a bedroom. We're already planning a party for this weekend to put all that space to good use, and to celebrate the fact that we no longer live in Wixhausen. The downside is that it's in a suburb very poorly connected by public transit (>1hr for Alfredo to get to the lab) and we'll have to go yet another month without internet (ahhhhhh!!!!!). But we'll survive. At least we know where we're sleeping every night this week, which is a luxurious assurance I am thankful to have.
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