Well, I'm now living in Chicago and will have to find a new desk for myself. I've been using a table up in Sophie's attic where there is plenty of room and a nice big window that opens from the slanted ceiling. The breeze is light and the animal noises are charming. The primary drink served at this desk is water as the weather is quite warm and I'm sweating all the time (like right now).
We've just found an apartment and if all the paperwork goes right we should be moving in sometime next week. Crazy, you might think, but it has been surprisingly easy to find places to rent and it seems like people are even kind of desperate for two girls with jobs to move in. One man, named Mike, even called me a total of 7 times today because I'd sent him an email about his craigslist ad. His apartment was a piece of crap with only one real bedroom, but he did tell me and Sophie that we looked "handy", which I think was only hopeful on his part, and called the twice after our visit to tell me that he had information for me if I would call him back. When I did, he wanted to lower the rent for us. But it wasn't low enough.
So we will be relocating to a cute little apartment with a fake fireplace and a pantry off the side of the kitchen with two real bedrooms and a nice man named Harry who showed us around as if he were trying to rent us a cave and goes, "well it's not the best, you gotta walk up three flights of stairs, but the price is right." The price is right. I hope our credit/background checks go okay.
