moooo

my lease has just started, and i'm already thinking about where to go next. thebestestthingever would be to go to the iowa writers workshop. i wanna. really really really. i reaaally want to go to the iowa writers workshop. real bad. maybe they'll help me find a better word to replace "really." i don't have enough in my portfolio to apply by next march, so i'm thinking of just moving there and having faith in my extremely great and super and awesome writing skillz. i should be able to get some sort of job there, at least enough to pay rent. so i looked up some apartments there.

O_O

MADRE DE DIOS it's cheap as DIRT. new york city rent costs have permanently deformed my perspective on the quality and value of living.

$600 / 1br - Charming One Bedroom (Iowa City) (map)

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Date: 2009-04-27, 12:38AM CDT


Charming One Bedroom Apartment available June 1st-July1st. $600/month, including utilities. Perfect for visiting writer, professor or artist.

* Furnished
* Top Floor of Old Farmhouse
* 20 minute walk to UI Campus
* Wide Plank Floors
* Clawfoot Tub
* Gas Stove
* Pets Negotiable (Deposit Required)

S Governer at Burlington (google map) (yahoo map)

• cats are OK - purrr
• Location: Iowa City
• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

there are pictures: http://iowacity.craigslist.org/apa/1141884328.html. this is on the more expensive side. and by charming, these people actually mean "charming", and not "small as rat shit." the place is actually pretty big. and it's in a farmhouse. and there's a clawfooted tub! i've always dreamed of a clawfooted tub!! all for $300 less than what i'm paying now. the place is so cute... and i bet it smells like warm pancakes and cows in the morning. sigh.

so i think the plan is to move to iowa city (i only live in cities that start with the name of the state), live cheap and work some random job, write like a machine, and then apply. and if i don't get in, rinse & repeat. so that takes care of my plans for the next... at least 3 years of my life. sweet. now i can just dick around for the rest of this year.

haha, as if i wasn't doing that already.