I moved back to Madison today and arrived early this afternoon.

Before we left, my mom packed up a lot of food for me so I can freeze it and take it out little by little to have a supply of homemade food in my apartment. When we arrived at my new studio, we were depressed to find out that the refrigerator in this studio was not as large as the refrigerator in my previous studio (it was more like a third of the size of the old one), and instead of having a completely separate freezer section like my old fridge, it had no freezer at all.

When I went to the front desk to ask for potential solutions to this problem, they said that they didn’t have any spare refrigerators that they could switch with the refrigerator in my new room, but they did have another studio that I could move to that had a slightly larger refrigerator. I agreed to take a look at the other studio (which was the only other studio that was empty), and realized that the refrigerator was slightly larger and had a small freezer box attached to the top of the main refrigerator section. Still not anywhere near as good as my old refrigerator, but better than the studio I was originally scheduled to move in to.

I agreed to switch to the other studio, but the refrigerator only had a small impact in my decision to switch. Instead, the main reason I switched was because the other studio was recently remodeled and had tons of new appliances. Most other studios don’t come with a dishwasher and range, but the one I was offered did. Also, most other rooms have their walls painted a dark, gloomy brown, but the one I was offered was painted in a lighter beige that didn’t absorb all the light. It also had tons of cabinets where I could store dry foods and other stuff – way more cabinets than would be offered in any other studio.

I’m still working on getting everything organized and put away.

As for all the food that was supposed to be frozen, my mom took a lot of it back because without being frozen, it would most likey go bad before I ever got a chance to eat it. She put as much as she could in the medium-sized refrigerator that I have now, and my parents said that would probably just go buy a separate small freezer in which to store food.

I’ll post pictures here of my new room like I did last year, but I’ll wait until tomorrow when there’s better lighting so you can actually see stuff in the photos. Meanwhile, I’m going to finish unpacking and go to sleep early so I can wake up early tomorrow morning and go back to the Badger Herald office to get some work done.