*tries this method, running out of options*
For those who haven't heard, I'm moving to Ames in a week for grad school.
Unfortunately, I'm still looking for someone to take over my lease. It's on Boston Way, right near Coral Ridge Mall (it's the Windham's old place).
It's a nice two bedroom, pets allowed, covered parking, washer/dryer/dishwasher in the unit, and I'm fully negotiable on rent at this point (I'll even rent just one room & leave the other one empty).
Does anyone know of someone looking for housing for the spring? Please, send them my way.
515.460.0436
-=Russ=-
And now for something completely different. I didn't write this, but thought it was worth reposting.
'Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual Yuletide celebration and throughout our place of residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential, including the species of diminuitive rodent known as Mus musculus. Hosiery was meticulously suspended from the forward edge of the wood-burning caloric apparatus, pursuant to our anticipatory pleasure regarding an imminent visitation from an eccentric philanthropist among whose folkloric apellations is the honorific title of Saint Nick.
The prepubescent siblings, comfortably ensconed in their respective accomodations of repose, were experience subconscious visual hallucinations of variegated saccarinose fruit confections performing choreography throughout their cerebrums. My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head-coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the Arctic-like gloom, when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacophany of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof.
Hastening to the casement, I forthwith opened the barriers sealing this fenestration, noting thereupon the lunar brilliance without, reflecting as it was upon the surface of a recent crystalline aqueous precipitation, might be said to rival that of the solar meridian itself - thus permitting my incredulous optical sensory organs to behold a miniature airborne runnered conveyance, drawn by an octet of the diminuitive specimens of the genus Rangifer, piloted by a miniscule, aged chauffeur so ebullient and nimble that it became instantly apparent to me that he was indeed our anticipated beatified caller. With this ungulate motive travelling at greater vertiginous velocity than patriotic alar predators, he vociferated loudly, expelled breath musically through contracted labia, and addressed each of the octet by his or her cognomen: "Now Dasher, now Dancer", et al, guiding them to the uppermost exterior level of our abode, through which structure I could readily distinguish the concatenations of each of the sum of the total of the 32 cloven pedal extremeties.
As I retracted my cranium from its erstwhile location and was performing a pi radians pivot, our distinguished visitant achieved, with utmost celerity, via a downward salutation, entry by way of the ceramic smoke passage. he was clad entirely in animal integuents, soiled by the ebony residue from the partial oxidation of carboniferous fuels. His resemblance to a street vendor I attributed to the plethora of assorted playthings which he bore dorsally in a commodius cloth receptacle. His orbs were scintillant with reflected luminosity, while his submaxillary dermal indentations gave every evidence of engaging amiability. The capillaries of his malar regions and nasal appurtenances were engorged with crimson circulatory fluid which, its chroma suffusing the dermal layers, approximated the retinal sensation reflected by the Prunus avium, or sweet cherry. His amusing sub- and supralabials resembled nothing so much as a flexible, curved strip of wood associated with the American aboriginies and their ambient, hirsute, facial adornment had an absence of coloring comparable to crystalline hydrogen oxide vapor. Clenched firmly between his incisors was the posterior projection of acalumet whose gray colloidal aerosol fumes, forming a tenuous ellipticaltorus about his occipet, were suggestive of a decorative seasonal circlet known as holly. His visage was wider than it was high, and when he waxed mirthful, his corpulent abdominal region undulated in the manner of inpectinated fruit syrup in a collidal gel state within a hemispherical container. He was of Napolenoic stature, neither more nor less than obese, jocund, multigenrian gnome, the optical perception of whom rendered me visibly frolicsome despite every effort to refrain from being so affected by this risibilty. By rapidly lowering then elevating one eyelid and rotating his head slightly eccentricly, he indicated tha trepidation on my part was superfluous. Without utterance, but with noticeable dispatch, he commenced filling the aforementioned appended hoisery with various of the articles of merchandise from his aforementioned previously dorsally transported commodious cloth receptacle.
Upon completion he executed an abrupt pi radian rotation about the vertical axis, placed a single manual digit in lateral juxtaposition to his olfactory organ, inclined his cranium forward in a gesture of leave taking, and effected his egress by salutation up the smoke passage through which he made ingress. He then propelled himself in a short vector onto his rustic winter conveyance. Contracting his oral sphincter, he emitted a shrill series of notes to the antlered quadrupeds of burden and proceeded to soar aloft in a movement hitherto observed cheifly among the seed-bearing portions of a common weed. But I overheard his parting exclamation, audible immediately prior to his vehiculation beyond the limits of visibility: "Ecstatic Yuletide to the planetary constituency, and to the selfsame assemblage, my sincerest wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasureable period between sunset and dawn."
-=Russ=-