Potential New Addiction

http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu//

Has anyone else seen this? If you have iTunes you can download lectures from right now, a list of 20 different colleges and universities including Duke, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley among others for free in podcast format through the iTunes music store and if you're interested in the text, they have links to the textbooks used in the classes.

I think this is pretty darned awesome and I'm eyeballing the elementary Greek class that Concordia Seminary has up there... (Unfortunately, til I snag a new ipod or get the internet hooked up at home again, this isn't super-useful to me since I only have access at work for the moment.

There's a single installment half-hour lecture on the theology of hip hop from Vanderbilt University that I'm downloading to listen to now, I'm really curious.

A Brief Summary Of the Issues With The House....

So for those of you playing along at home, here's the brief summary of issues with the house. The list may seem to be in a weird tense...it's from the initial draft of the letter that I'm writing out for the sake of documentation to give to the property manager when he comes to see us today.

I had the roommates grab some pictures of the basement floor last night for documentation...just in case.

So the hope is that they start right on getting stuff taken care of today. Especially the basement because that's a health issue.

Does anyone know what the legalities might be if they don't get these issues fixed? (I'm looking into getting the inspection history of the house, and finding out which of these issues must be resolved for the house to be considered legally rentable) Seriously considering putting rent for September into escrow if they don't hop to real quick. We're so wanting to try and get out of the lease if these issues continue, but it took over two months to find this place and are afraid that the same thign would happen again. What about asking if they have a comparable three-bedroom place elsewhere in the city that we could move into? Anyone else ever have similar issues like this?

Also, has anyone in Baltimore ever heard of Disch Realty? Have any experience with them?

Unfortunatelythe property manager is supposed to be showing up between 1030 and 11 this morning...I don't know how much sleep I'm going to get today *grumble* Hopefully he'll just show up, see what's wrong and get to getting it fixed.

( here's the list )