In a few days I'm moving out of the shared house I've been in since September and into a flat of my own. I moved out of my parents' house in 2006 and even though I still get homesick sometimes, I've enjoyed going it alone. A bit. As much as I'm looking forward to getting away from all the foreign strangers I've lived with over the years, and the people I have lived with but have never met, I'm wondering what kind of weird habits I'll develop from living completely on my own. It'll be nice, actually MORE than nice, to not smell like a Chinese/Bangladeshi take away anymore, or have the smell of meat or fish through the whole house. I'll definitely cook more. I don't enjoy cooking where others are hovering around, because others aren't clean and I'm not prepared to clean up other people's crap for them. So at least I can be very selfish, and Rachel and I can finally have some privacy that extends beyond one room.

Okay. I'm looking forward to it.

Very soon.