Moving to an Office - Letter to Lina

It's so sweet of you to be concerned about my lot. This sort of intrustion is welcome. I find that people rarely express concern after my wellbeing beyond the required exchanges of meaningless pleasantries. To hear someone express genuine interest in my life is a rare pleasure. Still, I should caution anyone going down this line that I am a huge complainer and not particularly content about anything in life.

As it turns out, your name has come up here several times recently. At my place, there is a "Lina chair" and the cat has a "Lina collar". You may recall that you left several pieces of undesired clothing here. Stella has now formed these into useful furnishings around the home. So thanks for leaving those chic objects here.

Who told you that I was miserable as a freelancer? I believe I told you myself, but the reality is that too few people of the people in my current circle had to endure my incessant complaints when I was working in an office. My everyday routine was to bitch about everything from the people, to having to go to a high rise and behold the concrete and steel of the "new China" on a daily basis. In my current cocoon, I don't have to witness any of these horrors and I can pretend I am in a country that I like. I really do despise having to leave the second ring road or go to any of the business areas.

I had even more difficulty getting things done when I was in the office. I'm learning that a big part of it is just getting a list of things to do put together and doing those things. I fear that I would be constantly distracted by the presence of my office-sharers and would quickly become their nightmare. That said, your advice is obviously very far from being without merit. Stella is currently singing behind me and that is just one example of the distractions I have on a daily basis. My plan now is to use Senli's shop as my office. In this way, I could kill too beards with one stone and also not have to pay. I am not terribly keen on adding another rent check at this point, though I understand the benefits.