I'm beginning to feel as if there are certain unquantifiable (or at least unforeseeable) perks about an apartment that make a significant difference in your quality of life. The most significant one for me, this week, is that my bathroom seems to get dirty really quickly. There's probably some aspect of this that can be blamed on my roommates, on the fact that there's three of us using this bathroom in comparison to two last year, and on my cat. But more problematic, I think, is that my current bathroom has no window or ventilation (which would be illegal in PA and promotes mildew growth) and also that we have white tile and also also that there are four normal size light bulb sockets over the vanity which previously had large low wattage bulbs that I've replaced with normal high wattage bulbs revealing secret dirt that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Other similar anomalies:
1- My old apartment had super slanty floors, which was funny but more or less fine. The floors in my current apartment are wavy and it feels weird when you're walking around barefoot, which you would never ever due while apartment shopping.
2- There were crotchless panties (blessedly still in their package) under my oven, which my mom found because she is a saint and cleaned under my oven.
3- The outside door to our apartment is set back about 2 feet from the street. The other buildings on my block are commercial and don't seem to offer similar coverage. So people who have to pee on my block inevitably pee in my doorway.

This has been a rather bathroom-centric post.