“Whoa…it’s messy!” Jack said as I was showing him my room in my San Francisco apartment.

I was surprised, but nobody has said my room is messy since Pittsburgh.

I told Chris later and he said, “Jack is very observant!”

There was once a friend asked me whether I would clean up for him when he came over. I said that I wouldn’t, because I didn’t want to change for people. But I always would shove things off the chair so that one can sit at least.

(My room may be messy, but the rest of the apartment isn’t.)