Settling In

Our house is finally starting to feel like a home. It's an odd experience, this doubling of square-footage in your living quarters. I can't remember ever having to wonder how to fill up empty space, rather than how to cram the absolutely-necessary-items into the absolutely-minimal storage space of the average big-city apartment. But here we are. Remarkably, there's even plenty of room for all our books. This is the first time since I started grad school, probably, that there hasn't been a huge overflow of shelfless books lying around, stacked into corners, threatening avalanche and disaster at any moment.

I've changed the name of the blog, in case anyone's curious. It's a pun, or a play on words, or a sad little witticism, referring both to what you can see from our deck and what you might say about my not-always-so-open-minded opinions.

More later.