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if i make it sound too dramatic, i apologize, it wasn't that dramatic, no one's life was in danger
if i make it seem like a joke, i apologize, because its a shitty situation with lots of losers, and no winners

i can't believe it's been almost a month already

november 6th, its 3am, i'm sleeping. and i kind of wake up, because i hear what sounds like rain outside. i'm half asleep, but it sounds like it's raining pretty hard. i remember thinking 'i didn't know it was supposed to rain' today, oh well. then i hear our door bell ring 5 times. i'm thinking its some drunk person outside acting like a drunk person. i ignore it, then 20 seconds later, 5 more door bell rings. i ignore it, and then like 20 seconds later, 5 more door bell rings. i finally roll out of bed and look out my window and see red, and then i smell the smoke. my blinds were closed, so i run up to my window and see the fire. it's burning the building right next to our apartment. holyshit



i start to panic and run around trying to wake everyone up. RJ was up, and checked to see if JH was home, but she was at her boyfriend's place. JC's door was still closed, so i ran over and  knocked and slowly opened it to wake him up. mistake #1, i should have busted through his door, but instead i knocked first. i tell him to wake up, we gotta get out of here

i run back to my room, acting like a crazy person. i definitely wasn't prepared for this situation. i quickly grabbed my backpack. and the first thing i can think to put in there was my tablet and my chromebook. the next thing i looked for was my watch. then i looked in my junk drawer to look for my passport, and after like 10 seconds of looking, i found it. As i was looking for my passport, i also found a $100 bill which was kind of funny to me. i kept looking around frantically trying to look for other things of value. but i heard someone yelling to get out. so i left

so all i had was my tablet, chromebook, watch, passport, wallet and phone. as we were waiting outside, i was actually pretty happy about what i was able to find in the 45 or so seconds that i had. the WATCH was the biggest one. after i had some time to think, i thought about what the most valuable thing that was still in my room. it was my suit! i know it was pretty unreasonable to grab that, but still. my tablet is pretty much worthless. if, i had to sell it, i'd probably only get like $50. peanuts. but the suit! that would have hurt

so all i'm wearing is a sweatshirt and basketball shorts. and its 5am. there were lots of firefighters and a couple News stations showed up. one of the reporters asked me if i wanted to be interviewed on camera. i said no. but she seemed desperate and said " please, i'll tell you what i'm going to ask you before we go on". i said no. BUUUUT, i was thinking, if i played this right, i could have made worldstarhiphop

  instead of just watching and waiting, i decide to go to work. i'm so naive, on my way to work, i thought wow that was nuts, but it's nbd, it'll take a couple days to fix. and we'll be back, nbd. yeahhhh not reallyyy! i lost a couple things to water/smoke damage, but nothing  significant. one of my roommates' rooms burned down almost completely and lost pretty much everything inside.

but it was funny, when i was moving all my stuff out after the fire, i found like $600 worth of cash lying around. $200 from selling tickets on craigslist, $20 here, $5 there. i need to step up my organizationGAME

later in the day, our landlord tell us that it'll take at least 6-12 months in order to fix and that we had to be moved out in 3 days. ummmFUCK.  we were told to go to the Rec Cross later in the day and they would help us. Basically, we talked to a red cross person and they have a checklist in what we need. new clothes? groceries? transportation money? and they give us each about $200 in order to help. kind of interesting, i didn't know that's how it worked. just fyi, if you're at red cross, and want to take every dime, just ask for everything, and they'll give it to you. but obviously that'd be taking advantage

so right now, my living situation is month-to-month until i decide if i want to wait until our old place is fixed. or if i want to sign a new lease somewhere else in sf. the thing is, SF rent is fucking insane right now. i was paying about $750, and if u look now on Craigslist, a room in my neighborhood will be about $1000+ fucking fucky fuck

after having some time to think about it
1. it sucks, but it's not that big of a deal
2. none of my roommates had renter's insurance, and i haven't looked into it at all. but, just because this would have helped me in this situation, does NOT necessarily make it a good decision. it just happened to work out this time
3. i was talking about it with my roommates. as much as this sucked. i can't imagine how bad it would be if we were older and had families. its better this way, we're young/stupid and better able to get through this then someone else
4. we lived above a restaurant, which is now closed. i mean, how brutal. that was someone's business, and now they can't do business
5. this past month would have been slightly easier with a car
6. being a realtor is an easy way to meet girls
7. sharkeisha don't give a fuckkk