the house is a mess, and i am not looking forward to the work involved with moving, although i can barely wait to get out of these wonderful gray quarters. they are wonderful really, this is one of the nicest flats in town, and it is a bit dark. the japanese friend from osaka of one my good friends was quite stunned when he first saw the place. most of my friends get all exclamative about the place the first time they see it, then they get used to it, and like to visit often. i like guests, so this all works well anyhow. when some months ago i made the decision to get another pied-à-terre, then i got a lot of questions about how i would miss the place. i will not really miss the place, but i will miss the neighbors. we are a fantastic family in this house. however already in november last year our eighty-year-old neighbor moved to a retirement home, and i dearly miss her. she came for an unannounced visit last week when i was already in the midst of my messy plans for the move, and we had a brief chat around a drink. she too feels rather displaced and does miss living in the house. she invited me to join her for lunch at the retirement home soon, and i will. it was a very touching, i really felt her need for company.
ok, so that was not particularly amusing, but the conference on thursday and friday and my musings about it are. i am now just plain exhausted although i slept long. now what i want to do is to curl up with a good book, and i even know which one... think "istanbul". i have however been busy dealing with email and voice mail, shopping... and really, there is the laundry too. besides i could not resist going to sit at the
diagonal for a tour of the paper version of
"le monde".
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