After a week of my frantically Facebook-messaging back and forth trying to arrange things across 6 people, pretty much none of whom decided to cooperate and do anything that they promised at any point...
First some of the guests had a pre-party to which I wasn't invited, and which they apparently decided to tell me about anyhow. Then they arrived late. Then we went to a restaurant and, okay, apparently they hadn't figured out that I had been the one to put everything together. Then we went to a movie which, directly after coming out of it, they started ragging on and tearing down (like, in a pleasant voice: "Well, I hated it more than anything else I've seen recently."). Then we were supposed to come to my house and get dessert, but apparently three of them decided they weren't going to do that and didn't even bother to say "thank you for inviting us," "thank you for putting this together," "goodbye," or anything like that.
The birthday boy asked them if they were going anywhere better and then after some deliberation decided that maybe he could deign to come in for dessert after all. When he left, he didn't thank any of us, either. My one sensitive friend and I walked him home... no thanks.
We went to see Pacific Rim, you see. I'm a straight-laced mathematician and he's a somewhat overly energetic biologist. I thought it would be a good friendship movie to celebrate his birthday and my going-away with; and I asked a bunch of his friends, too, so that he'd have a good birthday. Instead I just garnered a lot of insults to my person, and to my family. So I feel pretty low now, I guess.
Got an answer back on the place I thought I'd be living, too, which was a resounding no. I'm feeling kind of sucky, but at least I know answers to three of the many, many things I was waiting to hear about. The housing market has become insane... Berkeley students are starting to live five to a room. I'm glad I have a fallback.
EDIT: I really miss the math department. Really, really miss them.