I can’t believe it’s been five days since I last blogged. But my previous entry is dated Wednesday, July 9, so I guess that’s the evidence right there.

I went to Park Slope yesterday and looked at three apartments, but one wasn’t that great and none were actually in the part of Park Slope that I want to live in. And from scanning through ads in the Village Voice, the Times, and online for apartments in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, there’s barely anything out there at $1100 or less.

So I think I might bite the bullet and look into a roommate. I think it might be fun to live with a nice, cool, female roommate. Maybe a lesbian. Definitely not a chirpy sorority sister. I’d probably be able to live in a nicer place than I would by myself, and I’d also probably be able to lower my rent by $200-300, which would be wonderful. Plus, it could be a boost for my social life, which would be good.

It could also be a nightmare, of course.

I had a really bad roommate experience in the winter of 2000. I was working at some random job in Hopewell, NJ, about 15 minutes from Princeton, so I decided to move to Princeton. I found a roommate through the classifieds. He was a straight guy with a dog, but I think he was sexually confused (the roommate, not the dog), because I always got this weird uncomfortable vibe from him, and we wound up getting along horribly, because I think he sublimated his sexual confusion by yelling at me. So I moved out after four months.

After that, I had a really great roommate situation with a male friend of mine. So maybe I need to live with a friend.

At any rate, I responded to an ad today from a woman in Park Slope looking for a roommate, and she wrote back. In describing herself, she said that she works from home for a nonprofit. I’m not sure I’d want to live with someone who works from home. She’d always be there.

So I don’t quite know what I’m going to do.

Anyone need a roommate in Brooklyn, maybe September 1 or October 1, or know someone who does? Let me know.