The upside of living on your own is that you can make a huge pot of lentil and bean soup, with other vegetables thrown in for good measure, and just keep eating mainly that until you finally finish every last drop. I am currently on Day 4 and counting. I might curry it tomorrow.

Even though I am wholly powered by bean soup, I still have no desire to return to the book shelf all the papers I exhumed therefrom while in search of two tiny photographs of self three days ago.

The combined forces of bean soup and a wobbly piling system—not to mention 4,000 words to translate—have left me with no choice but to retreat into my headspace, and that suits me just fine.

I am happy – and, above all, grateful for free prism filter apps available online.

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