Anatale's Profile

I also live in a small apartment, and I use Arm and Hammer Ultra Last. I don't need to scoop more than once a day, and even though the box is six feet from my bed, it doesn't smell at all (except of baking soda). Smell is absolutely the top priority for me (with price a close second, since I'm a student), and the UItraLast is the best I've found.

I'm really surprised that the concerns seem to focus on potential kidnappers, when to me the real concern is having to deal with the problems associated with air travel, like flight cancellation or delays. These are not an issue when it is a direct flight, but can be with a transfer.

I first flew alone at age 12--not because I wasn't allowed to before then, but because the issue hadn't arisen. I felt at the time that I was too old to be enrolled in the unaccompanied minors program (which must have been optional at that time), but my dad insisted because I would have to change planes in Philadelphia in the summer, and the risk of the flight being delayed or cancelled due to thunderstorms was reasonably high. As it turned out, the flight went fine, but I now think he's right--at that age I was walking to and from school in the city without an adult, so I was perfectly capable of walking through an airport, but if the flight had been cancelled I would have panicked.

Three years later I flew to and from England by myself with no issues whatsoever.

I love the idea that a book is an object, and think it adds a lot to the look of a space, but I prefer the way that a heterogeneous bookshelf adds texture and keeps things from looking too neat, without actually being untidy.

If color is how you find books, good for you. As a lifelong bibliophile, I am not nearly as bothered by this question as by the suggestions that sometimes appear on AT to chop up old books for art projects or party decorations. Sort of like proclaiming your status as an animal lover by mounting heads on your walls.

Great houses, but I feel compelled to point out that this is hardly a representative cross-section of DC neighborhoods. These five are literally all right next to one another. Why only Northwest DC?

Do you have a left-handed version?