Okay, that's not totally true. I decided to begin my search for a new apartment by checking out the resources the internet has to offer. There are inherently too many problems to list with this approach, but the number 1 reason this is not the correct approach for someone in my situation is that only landlords with righteous moolah can afford to advertise in the papers or online. This means that only owners of building with expensive apartments or run-down dumps post listings. The real deals are to be found by walking through a potential neighborhood and writing down phone numbers to be called later (as I completely abhor cell phones and refuse to acquire one). Evenso, I went about searching online anyway, but predictably found nothing in all the standard places. The one exception? The U's Off-Campus Housing Listing Service.

While the majority of the listings of any reasonable price required the renter to share a bathroom and/or kitchen facilities with other renters, there was one particular listing which caught my eye. While I haven't called yet, I intend to go investigate the building personally either later tonight (post-rush hour) or tomorrow. It might be crap or it might be okay - I'll just have to find out.

So that's as far as I got today. I basically accomplished nothing. Hopefully tomorrow I can drag myself away from my apartment long enough to do a little searching in the streets.