Entre Les Murs

Bachelor For A Few Days

Janet is on a business trip this week, allowing me some time to paint the bathrooms. Naturally, I've got the tasks well organized and am now procrastinating like mad to avoid starting. So this morning I bought a cable to connect my phone to the computer and I've now downloaded all of the pictures I've been taking with the phone for the last couple of months. I've copied several of them into the blog, so if you're interested you should scan the archives back to the beginning of October. (It seems many of the entries I drafted in my head as I roamed about town never actually got recorded, and there are a number of pictures that did not have a corresponding entry. Thus the location of a picture may not strictly correspond to the date it was taken, but they're reasonably close and are placed where they enhance the text without misleading.)

Last night the younger sister of an old friend of mine came to use our guest room. She's on an apartment hunting trip since she will starts a new job in Paris after Christmas. A recently-graduated Ph.D. in biology, she'll be doing research in gene therapy. And yet she seems younger than I ever remember being. It's satisfying to be in a position to offer hospitality instead of being the one looking for a couch to crash on - but also a little sad, or perhaps just nostalgic.

Our neighbour's wireless modem was only down for a couple of days, so we're back in business; but obtaining our own ISP has been bumped up the chore list.

posted 6.12.05