perhaps my favorite thing about carter’s apartment is that it was neat and organized, and yet it was still obviously his apartment, impossible to mistake for anyone else’s. it is the apartment i dream of having, if i could only fight through my haphazard collection of knick-knacks, doo-dads and thing-a-ma-bobs and make some sense of the chaos. my mere presence in his apartment disturbed the order. by the time i left, the blinds were all closed the wrong way, there were twice as many soda cans cluttering the kitchen counter, the papasan was all misconfigured, and the coffee table books were spread everywhere instead of their neat stack on the corner. i think i forgot to put the dvds back in their drawer.
you could probably say that i made the apartment look “lived in.” you could also say i was like a mini-tornado.
carter has little things that remind him of people or places, and as i wandered around looking at them and getting him to explain the ones i didn’t know, they all seemed perfect. i, on the other hand, can make anything into something “special” and “meaningful.” i have a wooden posable man, just because i wanted one years ago when i planned to be an artist, and never got one. why do i need one now? i don’t know. somewhere on my bookshelf is a pile of rocks from the coast of scotland. rocks!
i have too much stuff. i need to simplify. i’ve got a plan!
i am feeling really good today, for that, and for other reasons. the conversation and balcony calm of monday night are still with me. we lost at volleyball last night but had fun doing it. the sun was casting great evening rays of light through the clouds as i drove home. even the two people who were completely hogging the elliptical machines didn’t bother me too much, as i just lifted weights instead. (ah, if only we had a gables-quality exercise room!)
there will be at least one person who will laugh at hearing the following, but i’ve realized that i may not be as big a fan of winter as i’ve always said. in fact, i may actually like summer a lot more than i let on. sure, it’s hot, and i love to complain about that, but i love the sunshine. and summer showers. and staying light until 9:00. and fireworks. and…more sunshine. i like cold as well, but winter is too dark.
anyway.
i installed this new google toolbar, that has a feature to block pop-up windows. sure, google may be monitoring everything i type and every website i visit, but hey, so is nasa, and the lack of pop-up windows is awesome.