when the brother says update. . .

I won't be writing as much now that I have an apartment. Yes, I no longer live in my office. The only drawback of this new arrangement is no high-speed internet.

Overall, it's fabulous. I can be messy. I can cook garlic without having to close every door leading toward the kitchen to keep the smell contained. No one comes unannounced to spend the night in the next room. It's on the sixth floor, the top floor, which means that I don't need a stairmaster. It also means that everyone else's heat rises up to my apartment & I don't have to turn the heat on very high.

I spent Sunday, the first day in my new home watching Spanish (not Latin American) telenovelas, making stock & then potato soup, baking brownies, studying Serbian, and reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. It's an amazing book & from my point halfway through, highly recommended.