I probably won’t have the chance to post this for a day or so, but I want to get my firstimpressions of Rodes 2 down now.
- I put the bongos in the smaller closet (where they can just think about what theydid). There are three distinct light control systems in there: a switch and two pull chains.They all control the same light.
- I set up my computer first. Y’know, so I could listen to music. You know. Hell. Anyway, therewas a brief scare when I thought I’d forgotten my mouse, but it turned out to be in my backpack.(Really.)
- The fireplace is about six inches deep and completely blocked off, yet it has a log in itanyway. It’s also about ankle deep in solid cobwebs.
- Continuing the “weird lights” theme, the light in the bathroom stays on if the switch is up ordown, and only goes off when it’s in the middle.
- The front room is a lot bigger than I’d remembered from my fleeting first impression, back inMay. Unfortunately, the middle room is correspondingly much smaller.
- In the cleaning-supplies closet, bizarrely, is a wadded-up feather eiderdown. At least, I thinkit’s an eiderdown. I’m pretty sure that’s what an eiderdown is.
- The faucet isn’t actually attached to the sink, and has a tendency to wobble around on its own.There’s only one towel rack, about eighteen inches wide, and it’s already pulling away from thewall. The toilet plunger, frighteningly, has somehow been turned inside out. (Counterpoint: It’sOUR BATHROOM! Our OWN BATHROOM and we don’t have to share it with ANYBODY!)
- I have discovered the World’s Cheapest Placemats, and they are here. They’re these threeperfectly rectangular sheets of white plastic. That’s it. Not even any cheap potato-printdecoration. And yes, there are three, despite the fact that there are four chairs at thetable.
- There are also absolutely no dishes. Like, not even ice cube trays, which you’d expect sincethere is a cabinet fridge. With Jon’s fridge, that brings us to a net total of two fridges. Theonly other food-related things in the whole place are the (empty) dish rack, the two boxes of EasyMac I brought and a case of Spritzer.
- There’s a cleverly booby-trapped chair on the back porch, which is propped against the wall insuch a way that it appears to be sit on-able, but has no actual back feet.
- My junk (my LARGE AMOUNTS of junk) is spread all over the front room right now, because I knowit’s not much use to start putting it away when we haven’t even decided who’s living where yet. I’ma little worried about the spiders eating it, though. And the Easy Mac.
- There are cracks everywhere–cracks in the closet walls, cracks in the paint, a crack in one ofthe doors that you can actually see through.
- Also the bathroom door doesn’t “shut” per se.
- This is about the ghettoest place I’ve ever lived.
- I’ve been here an hour and it already feels like home.
