My First (non-dorm style) Apartment!

I was told that Dane and I would be sharing a three bedroom apartment...and so my mind started to churn.  And the resulting image that came to my mind was something resembling a dorm room (probably the size of Pei) with a couple partitions.  Possibly rats skittering around.  An opium den in the apartment next door.  Standard expectations.

And then Anna (the person at the university with whom I've been corresponding) sends me the following pictures:




Well shit.  They look good.  They look reallllly good.  And I'm pretty sure that we have a giant bread maker in our bathroom, which is also a plus.

Dane then posted this super enthusiastic virtual tour of our apartment:





And now it was confirmed.  Never have I been witness to such a wide disparity between expectation and reality.  That apartment is huge!  And no rats!  And...well...this kind of sucks...but no opium den!  But in all seriousness, it looks wonderful.  I have no officially commenced the "curled up and reading in my balcony nook" fantasies.  Mmmhmm.  If only I had a Kindle.

If you watch some of the video, you'll notice that they've hung a potpourri of various movie/band posters all over our rooms.  I'm assuming they were aiming to create a you're-still-at-home-and-comfortable-and-safe aesthetic, but they might also just really like a wide variety (and seemingly random mix) of films.  And not only like them a lot, but force their opinions on anyone who stays in an apartment for which they pay.

Dane then told me on Skype that there was a poster for the boy-band Super Junior on her wall.  After doing a bit of research (a.k.a. watching all their Youtube videos and reading their Wiki page), I quickly called dibs on the poster.




THEY HAVE THIRTEEN MEMBERS!!!  Back off N'SYNC and BSB with your pitiful five members.  Go and try to make it somewhere else 98 Degrees with your measly quartet.  And seriously LFO...take your trio into the corner and weep.

And not only do they essentially dwarf all the other boy bands of old...they have subdivisons.  There's Super-Junior M, the Chinese division.  There's Super-Junior T, their trot-style division.  And Super-Junior H, their happy fun-time group.  All of these subgroups have members from the original thirteen with a few more added in to appeal to different audience groups.

That kind of brilliant marketing just makes me drool.  And yeah.  Watch their videos over and over again.  And please...go to the 0:40 mark on the video above and take note of the left portion of the screen.  That guy is adorable...America would never let someone so cuddly/cute/pudgy be in a boy band.

Hello?  Yes, I called earlier about possibly purchasing a shiny sports coat.  I'll take five.

Then again...we did tolerate Joey Fatone in N'SYNC.  He was good in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, wasn't he?