Breathable air! Cool!

It’s a beautiful day today. The humidity has lifted and finally there’s no need for the AC. Just open windows and a delicious breeze drifting through. My apartment has another blind date today. Someone coming to see it late this afternoon. The first buyers pulled out of the deal the day before they were to sign the contract and so I now find myself needing a new buyer at the very height of the slow season. Each time a new person comes through (which isn’t often enough, thanks to the time of year) I get nervous and wonder if they’ll be “the one.” Reminds me of why I hated dating. Then again, Billy and I met on a blind date, so maybe the apartment will share our luck. Billy and I may well be the only ones in New York not away on vacation at the moment. Usually I love the city when it empties out like this, but this year I just wish everyone had stayed in town to shop for one-bedroom co-ops.

I have to work on an editing job today. It was actually supposed to be a day off, but it was way too hot in here to work yesterday. My office is the corner of the bedroom (one of the reasons we’re moving–the set-up here is not conducive to working full-time from home) and the only AC is in the living room. Just a ceiling fan was NOT cutting it yesterday. It was hard to breath in here, so I opted for knitting my brother’s sweater in front of the living room AC. Deadline be damned. Today is for catch-up.

I’m seven inches into the body of my brother’s sweater now. It needs to be twenty inches before I join the sleeves. With such a long, large (XL) body, I’m finding I need smaller goals to aim for rather than just looking way up the road to the twenty-inch mark. So I’m now knitting toward thirteen inches, at which point I’ll start the two-inch band of gray. Here are the sleeves, in case you missed them the first time around. The body will have a single stripe to match the one on the arm. I haven’t decided if the striped arm is the left or the right yet.

Ok. Off I go to work. Soundtrack for the day: When I Pretend to Fall by The Long Winters. Best new album I’ve heard in a while.