Category Archives: Mundane

Still stealing furniture

My nearly vacant living room has been depressing me. It’s all I see from my perch in front of the computer, which is all I use to amuse myself. So even though I am almost always on the computer if I am not making supper, and I have a great Ikea-knock-off chair if I do want to sit, I have Read More


Triumph of the Light

When I moved into this apartment I bought one $17 lamp. I brought none with me. Most rooms had installed lights, but two did not, including the bedroom. That’s where I orginally used my one lamp. Eventually I decided it was a little too pathetic to light the room, and I wanted a light in my other room, so I Read More


Sponge zits

My sponge got zits. There were little white bits down in the pores that came out with a little pinching. They did not feel hard but neither did they break down into a recognizable texture when rubbed between fingertips. Not unlike a firm zit-plug. I’m guessing this was some residue from the manufacturing process, but then it could just be Read More


Hourglass figures

Today I used up my first tube of toothpaste, after recently concluding my first bottle of dish soap. These firsts are measured since moving here, in July. Things had a much shorter half-life in the 14 or so person household I came from, where the close proximity of many bodies caused a concentration of gravity that contracted the time continuum.