Archive for December, 2003

A State of Bliss

Sunday, December 28th, 2003

So I am back in St. Louis with absolutely nothing to do, having successfully signed the lease for a 2-bedroom (2 bath) apartment on the 15th floor in the Riverside building. All this means, of course, that I am currently on the lookout for a roommate to share this absolutely gorgeous apartment with.
I will […]

Apartment Hunting - The Day of Reckoning

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003

I started the third day in my charactersitic style - getting out of bed late and rushing as usual to get to my appointment with the Citisites NY broker, Scott. I made it there a little past 11 and let Scott take care of the rest of the tour. He showed me some pretty nice […]

Apartment Hunting - Day Two

Monday, December 22nd, 2003

The second day has definitely turned out to be far more successful. I set off in the afternoon once again and this time I had more accurate directions so there wasn’t much scope for getting lost The plan was to meet up with Aparna (my classmate from undergrad in IIT Madras) for the […]

Apartment Hunting - Day One

Sunday, December 21st, 2003

I landed last night in Newark airport just half an hour behind schedule in spite of being delayed through Chicago by a whole hour and a half! Somebody ought to do something about the kind of effect bad weather in Chicago has on the flight schedules of the day - everything ends up in complete […]

The Big Apple Beckons

Wednesday, December 17th, 2003

When I left the story off last, I had had a rather interesting trip to New York for an interview with a reputed firm. What I didn’t reveal was which firm I interviewed with on 49th St. and 7th Ave. I also did not happen to reveal that the very next day after I got […]