September 1998 - January 1999: Hello housing crunch. Needless to say another repercussions of the international co-op thing was my lack of applying for Fall housing which, due to the demand, resulted in a lottery. Out I went looking for either a good one year lease or something else. Well I ended up with a something else. A 60 day terminate at will agreement for 4 months. The owner of the unit wanted to sell but the earliest that she could wasn't until January of the next year so I just snuck in for the 4 months between the finishing of renovations and the new owner's moving in. Without a lot of furniture I had to jerry rig a few things. One of the scary parts about living here was that while I was home for Christmas break a few of the front units in the building were damaged by fire. Thankfully my apartment received almost no damage besides a little smoke.