Searching For Sanctuary

More adventures on Craigslist...

The place I was planning on staying at for two weeks while I found a place to stay for three months turned out not so good. Vedran, an otherwise awesome guy, tried to pick me up from the airport, but didn't realize I had already rented a car. He gives me directions to his place, very close to the strip in a nice little neighborhood and we start to fix pasta with veggies. Yum!

He said he was a painter, but I soon found out that he didn't mean in the 'artist' sense, rather in the 'paints buildings' sense. Okay, that's cool, I'm just excited the place is clean! Well, if it were my place, it would be cleaner, but this would certainly do for two weeks!

I noticed he inhaled his food, but didn't give it much thought. Later, I realized that at some point over dinner, he figured out my little secret, and that must have made him uncomfortable. I assumed he woofed down his food normally, but I guess he just wanted dinner to be over.

Later, he entertains me with videos of live concert footage from Ramstein (Du... du haist... du haist me- means You... you hate... you hate me) The concerts were held in London, Tokyo, Russia, and Paris; a pretty cool European band in an Eastern-block kind of way. If you've never seen the band, they are like German gothic heavy metal. Vedran's skin-head references keep growing and I suddenly noticed his shaved head.

Wanting to get started on my flat search, I leave Vedran early (probably to his relief) and when I call him back the next day on a good time to move in, he lets me know that the deal is off.

I sat in my car surrounded by beautiful mountains and clear blue sky and cried. Not because he rejected me, that was his problem, but now I was in pretty dire straits.

I only allowed myself a few minutes before getting back into survival mode. I get back to the hotel, keep the room for another week (but only after pleading for a good rate) and start looking for a new place.

This time, I don't tiptoe around:

3 Months, Cash, Upfront...WSOP player looking for a nice place May-Jul

Hello!

I'll be in Vegas for three months from May 1 to Aug 1 and am looking for someone cool (drama-free) to rent a room from as close to the office (Rio poker room) as possible. I'll pay for the entire time upfront, in cash, and I leave places better than I find them! :)

I'm professional, educated, traveled, healthy, 420 friendly, clean, and very respectful. Not that it should matter in the slightest, but since I'm not here to deal with bigots or sheltered breeders, you should know that while I look, act, and identify as a fit, attractive female, I'm really a M2F transsexual, pre-OP, 8 mos HRT.

If this sounds good to you, please respond with a phone number and I'll call right away!

Refs upon request.

And that's how I met Brad.