Sunday, October 27

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 Woke up at 9:30 – early for a Sunday! B brewed some coffee, and we ate cornbread, which I baked yesterday, for breakfast. I had a sore throat from last night smoking weed; I hoped I wouldn't get sick.

Then I read The Power Broker – the chapter about Shakespeare in the Park fight ("the second battle of Central Park"); I'm getting closer to the end, and feeling like I'm analyzing the book as much as I used to analyze the books at school. Maybe I should have had more notes. Maybe I should sit with the book for a while and go through the marks and see what I can get out of all of those – key points, themes, language that I can carry with me. 

At 12:15 I sat to write this diary for the entire week.

SH texted that the seller came back with 570K counter-offer; she proposed we give them the final 540K counter. I say okay. Then she calls and says the owner doesn't wanna hear anything below 555 – the price at the other similar apartment in the building was recently sold at; but that apartment has the windows facing the subway elevated line, and had major electrical problems, so the owner was upset if they sell for less. I said yeah the previous seller might have gotten lucky, but this is a free market, the seller may sell it quickly, or they may get stuck with it for months and months, having to fix things, and having to make it more attractive. So we offered our final 550. 

In the evening SH called and said they accepted it. We need to send them an attorney by 9am tomorrow, SH said. WoWoW, I said, we need to find one first. I said by noon. So went the evening, trying to find an attorney and hurriedly reading about the next steps.