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  • Mood: Pride
  • Listening to: Ingrid Michaelson
  • Reading: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
  • Watching: HBP
  • Playing: "find the life"....
  • Eating: pasta, bread and yoghurt - student nutrition
  • Drinking: Starbux Starbux and then some Starbux
That's right!

Last Friday, I successfully conducted a job interview for an internship at a graphic design agency in San Francisco.

So, starting November, the Bay Area will have to endure my presence for four months.
If my visa goes through. Which I'm sure it will (Oh my Rowling, please go through, visa....).

I have already ordered my "Jesse and the Rippers" shirt from busted tees, so the only problem left to solve (aside from aforementioned visa situation) is housing.

Does anybody have ANY super secret tips for me? What is the best webpage to look for flatshares/rooms for four months? Which areas of the city should I avoid unless I want to be stabbed in the kidneys for my iPod? Which suburb is sufficiently conected to public transport so one could fathom living there instead of the centre? Who has a comfy couch for me to crash on for four months?

Okay, so maybe I wasn't quite serious about the last one.
But if you have any wisdom for me regarding rooms for 24 year-old foreign graphic design students on internships, spill, please!

Thanks :)
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:iconcatching-smoke:
~Catching-Smoke Aug 10, 2009  Student Traditional Artist
Song called San Francisco
I was actually listening to this song when I read this, ironic.

Congrats btw!! Sounds amazing, and San Francisco is brilliant :)
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~FreakingMuse Jul 31, 2009  Professional General Artist
Abgesehen davon, dass ich unglaublich neidisch auf dich bin, find ichs absolut grandios, dass es geklappt hat! ich hoffe du berichtest oft von deinen Abenteuern in SF und ich drücke dir die Daumen, was Unterkunft und Visa angeht.
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:iconhalfie-redpanda:
Oh great! :D I'd like to almost welcome you to the Bay Area. Alls i know is that there is NO such thing as cheap housing here. Good luck with that! :D haha, i'm sure you'll do fine. Uh... about the public transportation however, BART has been having some problems lately... actually just this night i believe the employees were once again negotiating over whether they should go on strike. CalTrain seems to be having problems too. seems like the only [somewhat] reliable thing left is Light Rail?

Don't let me discourage you too much, i'm just a teenager and i really don't pay much attention to this stuff, i just hear tidbits here and there.
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:iconjeryn-molly:
Love to help but I'm in Canada. Let me know if you ever decide to work in ontario lmao
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:iconpen-umbra:
~Pen-umbra Jul 30, 2009  Professional Artist
Oooh! Congrats! San Fran is beautiful--I'm so jealous. I don't know much about housing in the area, but I do know it's very expensive. Suburbs are going to be the best place to look. I agree that Craigslist is good for finding places to stay short-term.

Good luck!

p.s. how are you liking Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? I'm about half-way through.
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~NinnyTreetops Jul 30, 2009  Professional Artist
Oh really? Awesome! :)
I'm still not sure what to think of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Mr. Collin's (or Charlotte's) fate is hilarious, and the adaptation is just my kind of mad geniius. Plus, I find it fascinating how Graham Smith manages to maintain the appropriate language whilst writing battle scenes ("Pulling her dagger skywards").
If anything, it is a very interesting example of postmodernism in literature.

So good to know I'm not the only dork who went for that book like a fat kid (ok:me.) goes for cake. :)
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:icongdorchaser13:
Craigslist? My friend is a student in San Fran and she found an apartment on that site.
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