on the apartment

i think ive mentioned this thru emails but to be honest its been so long that ive kind of lost track. but i still live in the same apartment with 3 people, its just much cleaner and neater now because my roommate mike moved back to canada at the end of the ecc contract period (end of march) and amanda moved in to take his place. mike plans to come back to japan at the end of august, but hell live in a different place (but hopefully still in the same apartment building, freebell).

but so far the new living arangement has been working out really well. amanda and i take the big room, while paul still stays in the small room. we are all paying the same rent now, i think. since amanda has moved in the place gets cleaned much more frequently...dishes are washed, floors are dusted, bathrooms are scrubbed, sheets are cleaned, and the toilet is, uh, aired out.

before the move, amanda and i would spend a ton of time travelling back and forth to each others place to see each other. now, with us living in the same place, we are dumbfounded by the amount of free time that we each have. its great, really. no more rushing around to get to work, no more subway rides, no more freezing cold bike rides in the winter or blisteringly sweaty bike rides in the summer. instead of using our time for transportation we can use our time just to hang out and have fun, which is a big relief.