Yet another joy of living in a 100 year old house

I live in a triple decker. Three identical apartments stacked on top of one another in one really old (i.e. pretty sure there wasn't a shower inside when it was built) house.

Last night right as I was falling asleep I woke up because my bed was shaking. My room was shaking. I seriously thought we were having some sort of mini-earthquake. My roommate didn't seem to be worried- all quiet on that side of the apartment as far as I knew. A mini-Earthquake never hurt anyone so I decided to go back to sleep. Then, a few minutes later I woke up again. This time things seemed to be shaking a little more. Ok, now I was starting to get a little scared. I decided that if it got worse I was going to get worried and wake my roommate up. It calmed down and I drifted back to sleep. I woke up again to the quaking. This time was a little different. Now I could hear the movement of bed springs in sync with the shaking! Yes, someone in my house was having sex so vigourously that it literally shook the house.

This morning my roommate told me that her bookshelf was shaking last night. Good for them.

buying a new (to me!) car

Good morning! Some of you may be impressed by the fact that I'm coherent enough to post anything at 9:08am on a Saturday. No, don't worry, I haven't started doing drugs. Actually, I'm buying a car. Woot.
Basically, my approach to cars is this--I think they're dumb. I hate driving, and I choose to drive as seldomly as possible. But when I do drive, I want to drive something that is not going to break down at the side of the road, or require me to drive it like a manual transmission when it is actually an automatic. I'd like something where all four windows consistently roll all the way up. Air conditioning would be nice, but I suppose if the windows work I'll survive without it. I'd also (and I know this is stretching it) like not to have to drop $200 or so on repairs to my car every three or four weeks.
And I don't want my car to be ugly. It doesn't have to be the hottest thing on wheels, just not ugly.
My parents have pointed out that my approach to cars seems remarkably like my approach to men. I think they're just being cynical because I refuse to give them any grandchildren for the next decade.
Do any of you have any advice on buying a used car for about $8000? Any cars I should definitely not buy? How do you feel about the Nissan Sentra?

I'm Ham Solo, captain of the Millennium Scallion

Hey guys, here is a funny movie:

http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html

I think its hilarious.

Another funny thing: I started a new project a couple of weeks ago, and am now working in D.C., hopefully only for a couple of months. Anyway, the bathrooms there have automatic toilets, and one of the stalls is a little too sensitive. Everytime you move around to, ahem, clean yourself up, it flushes the toilet! Haha, so I'll be at the sink or whatever, and I hear some guy flush like four times in a row. Hahaha. Also, I was putting one of those seat covers on the seat and it flushed the thing down before I could sit down!! That wasn't as funny, because I had to get two more before I could use it (I had to move quickly).