So here’s the setup: the roommate and I share a one-bedroom basement suite where the ‘living room’ and ‘kitchen’ spaces are actually the front and back halves of a converted garage.
This arrangement isn’t atypical of the area I currently call home (or occasionally other four-letter words beginning with H). I live right near a [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Jam smears and toast crumbs and the knife stuck to the counter.
Posted in jabber, personal on 02/18/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Adventures in spending money.
Posted in Uncategorized on 02/17/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Know those months where everything runs out? Those dire months where, some late evening after everything is closed, you find yourself forlornly gazing at the last scoop of dried red lentils and the Final Onion Half wondering what exact form breakfast will take? When you have to buy every single staple in the kitchen?
I remember [...]
Morning fuss.
Posted in jabber, tagged arguments, dishwashing, domestic spats, roomies on 02/14/2009 | Leave a Comment »
At 7.15 in the A.M., I was standing before the stove in my underwear, wondering there was any oatmeal left.
As it turned out, there wasn’t. But it took a while to come to that conclusion, because it was at this point, less than five minutes after I oozed out of bed, that my roommate [...]
