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the counter argument: 5 objects for nine inches of disputed territory
the counter in this kitchen is nine inches wide. i measured it three days after we moved in, using a tape measure i had to excavate from a cardboard box that still hasn’t been fully unpacked. nine inches between the coffee maker and the microwave, with a brief diplomatic zone…
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the case for hot water and gravity: 3 tools for a pour-over in nine inches of counter
the drip machine has been sovereign since the second morning in the apartment. i set it up on february 9th, plugged it in, and it made coffee. i want to give it credit for that. it is reliable in a way that does not require my participation—it runs at 7am,…
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what the morning found
A meditation on what happens to a kitchen after two months of daily decisions — and how a room that looked incapable of producing a morning turned out to be quietly building one. The coffee maker’s jurisdiction. The bowl that catches the light. Julian’s smoothie schedule. The system that assembled…
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the expansion pack: 6 more analog objects for the housewarming that keeps happening
the housewarming happened. i’m still not entirely sure what to do with that information. i had constructed it, in the weeks before, as a singular event — a threshold to cross, a night to survive, an evening after which we would be able to say that the apartment had been…
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the kinetic archivist: one reusable tool for the fabric situation
April 1, 2026 • Margot the situation with the dog is that she is generous with herself. not in a negative way—she’s not doing anything wrong—but in the specific way of a creature who has decided that every upholstered surface in the apartment is communal property. which is fine. which…
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the month the apartment became itself
there is a specific kind of disorientation that sets in when a problem you’ve been solving for two months suddenly isn’t a problem anymore. i’ve been in renovation mode since february 9th — the day i stood in the middle of what would become the living room with a forensic…
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the air situation: one purifier for the room you thought you’d already fixed
i’ve been doing a room audit this week. monday was the inventory: the ceiling fan connected to nothing, the fitted sheet’s nightly migration, the placeholder lamp still holding its temporary position after forty-seven days. friday will be the answers. but there was one thing the audit surfaced that i didn’t…
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what the equinox found
the spring equinox arrived thursday morning at 6:47am and found me awake. i know the exact time because i looked at my phone when the light came through the gap in the white sheers — the ones that were hanging here when we moved in, which have the specific transparency…
