Architects Take Note

OK, all but one of the bachelor apartments I have looked at are square rooms. Why would I want to live in a square room, where it is nigh-impossible to separate things off so that I am not staring at my unwashed dishes and unfinished reading while trying to sleep, or confronting my guests with my unmade bed? There is no discernible advantage to this layout, and you cannot tell me it would be that much harder to organize the plumbing and such with a longer, narrower room. Tut tut, architects of whatever decade all these complexes were built.

The only place I really liked for its physical attributes (lovely cabinets, pleasing shape of room, ample storage, high ceilings) was both out of my price range and out of my target neighbourhood. It was also inhabited by smokers. Natch!

A promising new lead has come up; an old school chum from home has offered me his place starting in May. Tomorrow I will go to meet it and see if we will be friends.