Good morning!
 
It looks like my (military) roommates will be moving out of the house
that they own (at least, that's what they're saying), but they are not
selling it; rather, they will be renting the entire thing to moi.  This
is good, because it means they'll be taking the three dogs & their cat
and leaving me with Slinky and Sophie (ferret and cat, respectively)
with a bit more breathing room.  Or possibly they'll steal my sweet
Sophie and leave me with Hellkitty--I mean, "Princess".
 
On the downside, though, I am a Navy person, which means that I am often
gone.  I have a good neighbor whom I can probably pay to feed & maintain
the animals, but what I'd rather have is a ferret-human civilian (i.e.,
relatively stable) human.  Actually, human is option.  I wouldn't mind a
Klingon, just as long as you don't torture or eat the pets.
 
Live-in ferret sitter, you say?  Well, er, yes, sort of, except that when
I'm around, I cook & clean and take care of the ferret, or ferrets, if my
possible new roommate brings his or her own.  So if anyone knows anyone
in the Tidewater area who's looking for a ferret-friendly roommate, who
pays bills on time and doesn't mind having an entire house to themselves
from time to time, please have them get in touch with me?  This is all
/very/ tentative, since I don't really know what my roommates have
planned, but I'd rather put the feelers out early.
 
The house is a Cape Cod house, 1 1/2 baths, no basement.  There's a
driveway and a fenced-in backyard and a storage shed for stuff like
the super duper mulching lawnmower.  We have a washer & dryer, and if
my roommates take them with them, I'm buying more, because I /can't
live without them/.  The house has an add-on "den" (which is where the
washer & dryer are), a decently-sized kitchen with an "island" in the
middle for cooking or eating, living room and dining room and master
bedroom downstairs, two bedrooms upstairs (including one that's
supposedly "haunted", though /I/ certainly can't sense anything).  The
entire place was just recently completely modernized, wiring-speaking
(actual circuit breakers instead of fuses!  Whee!), and there is
cablemodem hookup EVERYWHERE (the place was wired by a computer freak).
 
Your potential roommate is a quirky science-fiction/fantasy buff and
"sequential artist" (i.e., I like comic books) -- lots of books and
graphic novels to borrow, if you're into that stuff.  If you're a
Klingon, I actually own a copy of Hamlet in the original language.  I'm
also into history, historical-based fiction, knitting, knotwork, pen &
paper roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, etc...,
Esperanto, and (of course) ferrets.  Please get in touch with me at
[log in to unmask] if you're in the area, looking for a place to
stay, and want more details.
 
 -- Kat
[Posted in FML issue 4598]