h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My days of sleeping on a floor may be numbered (and we're talking small numbers here - not 3 digit cos obviously I'd end up in a bed at some stage once the visa runs out... enough rambling..)

I decided to try a new approach to getting a place to live - actually looking in the papers and ringing the people advertising. I know - radical thought and all that, but please God (I become very religious when there's something I want - but it's okay cos according to my Catholic upbringing I get forgiven pretty much whatever I do. With that on offer - it's not surprising that they have such a guilt complex...) I'll get this absolutely froody house that I saw today. I actually saw two. One was cool looking, had a gym, pool and golf putting green (you heard me!) on the 8th floor and I got on (i thought) really well with the girl who I was talking to. She wants me to meet the other person living there before they decide - but I'm hopeful..

I'm meant to meet the bloke in the next day or so and then after that they'll decide what the story is - so I'll try and be as charming as I can be (I know you've never seen it, but I can do it when necessary!) and failing that, i'll throw more money at them!!
The other place was a 3 bed apartment with 5 not-particularly-English-speaking people in it for about $30 more... but they said I could put stuff in the fridge if I wanted to.... oh - choices, choices... *L* (By the way *L* means laugh - it's a bad habit I picked up from someone I met here! Comes in handy too when you've used too many smily faces!!)

So.... I want everyone out there who reads this to keep their fingers, toes, eyes, legs and cheques crossed for me (I should know by Saturday so it shouldn't be that difficult!) that I get this place. Cos then people can come over and visit! Honest.
And if you don't believe in the power of positive thought, then explain Mika Hakkinen's unexpected car-blowing-up-for-no-reason incident in Hokkinheim... chance? No. The combined thoughts of everyone in Kiely's pub... methinks so...

So believe people - touch the screen - cross your hearts - and with a bit of luck I'll be sleeping in a bed by the end of the week (and I'll love you all for it. Well... except you, Kirk... we're cousins and I'm not from Cavan!)

Oh - cool link for the day - you've gotta see this... if I had a web page like this, my women problems would be over!!!

http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/primall/mahir/index.html

I think go with the dive. The other deal is too sweet (or have you forgotten all that begrudgery and suspiciousness that should be indigenous to any god-fearing Irishman?). You just know that it will turn out that they will be filming erotica...no wait you might like that one.....,peeing in the pool 'cos the flush mechanism on the toilet doesn't work and anyway toilets are sooo costly to the envirornment and urine is a disinfectant and safer than chlorine so they are only doing it for your own good......Bugger that go with the pad...