From Outer Space, with Love.
A blank white screen and plenty of thoughts swirling around the brain. Where to start? Why not outer space? It seems clear enough that now, within the past week, I’ve had a visitor from that very region. New Zealand’s fairly close to there, no?
I’m three weeks into my new apartment, ‘only’ number four in the past year and a half. I’ve gone from a cram school-owned dump to this relative heaven; a hardwood-floored, glass-shelved fortress of a place. Highlights include a whole 4 burners on the stove, a tatami matted guest room with its sliding glass door, and a bedroom the size of my entire previous apartment. The lowlight is most definitely the 5 storey walk up with bags of groceries in hand. (My gym membership expires in two weeks and I see no point in renewing it.)
Rebecca and Elliott, my new flatmates, have left on a 5 week trek across the States and Canada. In their place for the next month has arrived our fascinating Martian. ‘Paul’, as is his nom de plume via internet today, has spent the better part of the afternoon on the computer searching for a one-night stand. His half-hearted attempt last night ended empty-handedly and he returned at midnight looking dejected. Quite the surprise if you consider that he might be as bright and handsome as he announces (daily)! Perhaps I made a mistake in replying him with a straight ‘no’ when he asked me the other night if I might like to provide this service for him?!
Ah! He has a bite, a friend of a friend, and apparently she’s quite pretty (as he’s asked her flat out himself). With my own two friends scootering in from another city for the night, it looks as though we shall all be the judge of his ‘successes’ based on the jumping figurines on the glass shelf outside his room.
(Having just written that, we’ve just had an impressively coincidental earthquake! Perhaps this is a sign of times to come?
I look forward to further adventures as a fly on the wall of his one month stay. Earplugs look as though they’ll be the centre of my inner peace during the next little while.
Celibately, Laura.
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