Raleigh North Carolina at last! While the initial introduction to it has not been the greatest, I definitely think that it has a lot to offer and I am SO excited for the opportunity to explore the area. When I arrived in Raleigh my first obsticle was that mapquest had said to turn the wrong way on one of the streets and so had me wandering around lost for a little while trying to figure out what was wrong. I quickly realized that they had said to go right, when in fact I should be going left and so I soon found the apartment complex where I would be living, and my own little corner apartment. I walked in and well...it isn't exactly a little apartment. It is quite huge in fact. Incredibly huge for someone such as myself who doesn't really need a whole lot of space. So i marvelled over that for a while then I walked through the place to check things out a little. I soon deduced that this particular apartment was built handicap accessable. All the doors are extra wide. There is a handicap bathroom, and everything in the place is very spacious. There is also an emergency call button by the bed in the bedroom. But other than those few things it is a perfectly normal apartment. My exploration continued and as I looked around it dawned on me that everything was dirty. The place looked like someone lived in it, except that they didn't have any stuff. It was just gross. You know the normal dirt that gets around when someone lives somewhere. It is normally not too disgusting when it is your own dirt, but when you are walking in to live in someone else's dirt, it's really, really sickening. I decided that whoever had lived here before me either had something wrong with them, or they had little kids because the table and chairs were crusted in food that looked like it had been smeared there by someone apparantly trying to finger paint with food. The carpet hadn't been vacuumed, let alone cleaned and there were stains everywhere and food particle's ground into the floor. The stove top was dirty and the little burner bowl things were crusty with crumbs and food slop. The bathroom, though it didn't look too terribly dirty, had some hairs on the floor, etc. UGH!!!!!!!! Gross! It was such a disappointing and angering discovery. Now what was I to do. I had been driving for 24 hours, practically with no break. I was dead tired, hungry, sore. All I wanted was to take a hot shower and go to bed. But I didn't want to touch anything in the apartment until it had been cleaned. Didn't have the energy, nor the supplies to clean it, and of course the apartment office was already closed when I arrived. What a dilemma. Oh misery and despair. What a very large poopstain on the rug(ha ha, thats for you pfeif) So anyway, I ended up driving to the getto wal mart, which is more getto than any wal mart i have been to yet, even the one in Del Rio I think. And bought many cleaning supplies. Went back home, and went to bed. Today i complained to the apartment people, thoroughly cleaned the bathroom and kitchen, was able to finally take a shower, and unpacked some of my things. And now...the lonliness birds have started circling around my heart once more. Or something like that. So anyway, more adventure's are on the way, without a doubt.

Song of the Day: Nick Cave- The Kindness of Strangers