I know it's been a while since I posted last - we got snow for a couple of days, and it's already gone. We're back up to 8 celcius ( sorry, I think of cold temps in celcius now ) and it's rainy. Tomorrow it ' s supposed to continue raining, except it'll be about 3 celcius. It' s much better to have it below freezing and snowy than to be almost freezing and wet. The snowy days were some of the nicest days we've had this winter. Globa lwarming is a major topic of conversation here, though. It's normally about 4 or 5 degrees below zero ( in Fahrenheit!) in January, and we've barely dipped below thirty so far.

I spent yesterday with my housemate Adam helping a local gallery owner (and friend of the apartment) tear out the temporary walls he had installed in his gallery . In exchange, we got a couple of free matrasses, a chunk of the Berlin wall, a rusty rail road spike, and all the building materials that had been used to construct the walls . Adam is going to use them to build a loft in his room... but getting them there meant hauling probably a couple of hundred pounds of drywall and lumber the three blocks from the studio to our apartment. In a shopping cart. Over cobble stones. Yeah... Adam owes me.