i rented a shotgun?

i have a place to live. now life can go on as normal. living in a hotel and having someone make your bed and change your towels every day is nice, but valet parking is not all it's cracked up to be.

the apartment hunt ended with some disappointment. the place i had dreamed of was a sunny, spacious, second story. it was beautiful and had the best closet i have ever seen. the room was huge. AND it came with a puppy sans responsibility since it did not belong to me. but alas, the girl was as indecisive as i am, and couldn't make a decision. thankfully, however, that did not leave me out on the street.

i ended up with my second choice in a shotgun house. it's a long, relatively narrow apartment that shares a front porch with another similarly styled apartment, the two of them making up one house. the only door that has any real use in the apartment besides the front and back doors, is the bathroom. it is truly the only place where you can find any privacy because to get from the front door to the kitchen, you have to walk through each successive room. my roommate has also just moved here, so the house is in a messy dissarray. when everything is in order, you will enter in the living room, walk through the dining room, my bedroom, her bedroom, and end in the kitchen. i'm not complaining because she's giving me a great deal.

from my interaction with a few loclas, shotgun houses have quite historic roots. one person told me that the shotgun house earned its name because a person could stand at the front door, shoot a gun, and the bullet would go straight out the back door. he continued saying that the style is based on ancient african style houses, and that by opening both the front and back doors, the breeze is more able to blow through the house. the second person told me that the style was developed during the civil war to provide safety to the tenants. should someone shoot through the front door, the people inside could duck behind the wall for protection.

i will have to relearn how to contain my mess in a closet. it will simply not do to have someone walking through my messy room every day. to parents with messy children: this is a solution to all your problems with laundry on the floor. when it is a matter of practicality, there's no arguing that it has to be done.