Rental Room updates.

Today will be a work day while the ad runs. I will not take the cellphone upstairs-- let the calls pile up. I will build the application in email later today as a break from space-prep. I may also get to the store for the few needed items. I have decided NO FRIDGE, but to supply a small microwave-- that way they can take food out of the dnstrs fridge/freezer, take it up, and nuke it and eat it up there. They can even "buy" frozen, cooked meats from me, the bulk cooking lady. And bring down dirty plates, etc., when they find they have used all their clean ones and when the sink is open. (There is a deep windowsill up there that is plenty cold enough, even this month, to set milk overnight for AM tea.)

A good friend yesterday reminded me of the power of campus advertising if I really want to prioritize for a student of a particular vintage-- will look around in email to spot pals we already know to get word around via the "back door."

The BIG insight today as I loaded a backlog of laundry was this: "If you leave your clean stuff in the washer it's likely to end up wet and unfolded in your stairwell. On the other hand, if your dry, dirty laundry is left on top of the washer in a bag-- it's likely to end up clean and maybe even folded, in the same bag, in your stairwell, at no charge." (Because I LIKE to do laundry and I have to go to the laundry room to send them up some supplemental heat anyway.)

~Susan