live from Brighton

Hooray! New apartment! With space! and closets! and light! and air! and, as of half an hour ago, internet access.

Moving was moving; a longer post about that will be forthcoming. Enormous gratitude to whuffle, halleyscomet, happyfunpaul, and quezz, and my parents.

I spent yesterday unpacking my bedroom and my kitchen, and cleaning things as I unpacked. I'm getting away without rent for August because the place needs cleaning, so I'm cleaning it. Yesterday involved one trip to the grocery store for things like light bulbs and toilet brushes and a larger broom, and one trip to the hardware store for tension rods and shelf space not in the pantry. Neither errand took longer than an hour and a half to get to, get done and get back from. That was a shock.

Today's list, now that the RCN guy has been and gone, involves fabric shopping for door curtains, hardware store again for Metro shelf clips, getting the gas turned on for the stove (did that, since I found the number online, since I'm online again), and trying to hunt up more bookshelves and counter space.

Due to its previous life as a dining room, my bedroom has two entry doors. One goes into the hallway and the other goes into the kitchen. I really want a curtain on the kitchen door, to the point where I'm willing to hand-sew it. I think it's fabric-shopping time, after I hunt up some lunch.

Hooray!

in which exercise is good for me but not productive

Fabric shopping should not involve a five-and-a-half-mile hike.

It did in today's case, because: (a) Winmil Fabrics didn't have anything I was excited about, (b) the only other fabric store I could think of and get to was the Cambridge Quilt Shop, (c) I knew the Cambridge Quilt Shop was somewhere around the Fresh Pond Mall, and (d) I knew I could walk to the Fresh Pond Mall from Harvard Square because I did it by accident earlier this summer, but (e) I forgot which side of the Fresh Pond rotary the fabric store was on. So I walked from Harvard Square to Alewife, walked all over hell's half acre around Alewife and couldn't find the place, gave up, walked back to Harvard Square, remembered that there's an Economy Hardware in Central Square and they'd have Metro shelf clips, and walked there. And then took the T home, thank you very much.

Tomorrow, armed with directions, I'm going fabric shopping.