We're still here

Hi again--
After a strange night where we both woke up for good around 3:30 we've continued in our apartment hunting. We're going to look at two more places tomorrow and have all of our documents in a row so we can throw our qualifications in their faces. This feels like applying for jobs! We did talk to someone at the international housing office who told us that the suburbs we've chosen to apply for aren't used to renting to students and are notoriously snobbish. We're supposed to push the fact that we're engaged and thus "family oriented," plus show all kinds of documentation showing every tie we have to Australia...bank accounts, Australian references, if we had a third cousing four times removed who once vacationed here, that might help as well.
On the plus and amusing side, today Mike was mistaken as being from the UK! The teller at the bank was absolutely convinced.
We also ran into Kim Walker today, the dean of the conservatory and Mike's old bassoon teacher. She's taking us to dinner on Saturday and pretty much assured us of getting us jobs. At least we don't have to search for those on top of an apartment!!
But now we're REALLY SLEEPY so more later!
~Ruth Ann
(Mike says zzzzzzzzzzzzzz)