Here is a picture of our living room!
I just took this picture, and now it's on the internet. Wow. Technology, man. Yes, we have a black leather sofa. No, we didn't pay a stinking cent for it. It is covered with that colorful blanket in order to keep the southwestern theme to our decor. No, not really. We put the blanket on it because we got the sofa for free from a lady who had apparently kept it outside for quite some time, and it was very dirty. But we cleaned it (somewhat) and covered it, and now it's a perfectly good leather couch. The most difficult part about it was that it is extremely large and heavy, and the only way into our apartment is up an extremely rickety wooden staircase:
Ooh, creepy picture! But as it turns out, we got the couch on the same day that Lilly and her mother were paying four friends (in beer) to carry stuff into the house, so they had the fun job of getting the huge couch up the rickety stairs.
The coffee table in front of the sofa may look a little small, but you should have seen it before we put the top on it! The wooden top to the table is not actually attached to the rest of the table. Emily bought the bottom, which she thought was a coffee table, but is more like a pair of shelves which are meant to go in a closet or something (Target can be pretty random sometimes), as they are too small to really be a table. But we found a piece of wood (our place was oddly full of random planks of wood) and now it resembles some kind of coffee table.
You can kind of see our table and chairs in the "dining room" past the sofa on the right. It's more of a breakfast nook than a dining room, but it's nice. Anyway, the table and chairs are Ikea, but we got them from a couple that was moving and couldn't keep most of their stuff. A table, two chairs, a TV stand, another chair that is kind of falling apart that they threw in for free, and a blender, all for $55. Not too shabby. Other than that, there isn't really a story behind anything else in the room. You can't see Lilly's six-foot candelabra in this picture, it's off to the left, but it's gigantic and strange and gives me nightmares.
Today was Labor Day, which meant a day off from all my labor. I was going to put a joke here about the irony of a woman going into labor on Labor Day, but then I couldn't decide if that was actually ironic or if by making the joke I would risk being compared to Alanis Morrisette, so I decided to leave it out. I don't actually know of anyone who went into labor today (do you? That would be hilarious!) but it just popped into my head.
So anyway, tomorrow is Tuesday, and as the day after Labor Day, it holds no special status at all, which means it's back to class for me. I have another lesson tomorrow, which will be my second, and which reminds me that I should probably get some sleep tonight. With that in mind, I will sign off for now. Before I do, though, I want to say quickly that I do not intend, with the lighthearted entries on this blog, to ignore or make light of the disaster and tragedy going on around me as a result of Hurricane Katrina. I am new to Houston, but several thousand people have arrived here recently from New Orleans who are even newer to the area, and are without homes or food. Despite the fact that I live only a few miles from the Astrodome and Reliant Stadium, I have seen little of the effects of this migration. As a student at Rice, I feel very sheltered and very fortunate compared with those around me. Right now I am not sure what I can or should do, but hopefully I will have an opportunity to help in some way. Until then, my prayers are with the victims here in Houston and elsewhere all around the Gulf Coast.
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