that apartment

it's so odd because i never would have noticed that apartment before... maybe not NEVER but most probably i wouldn't have noticed it before. maybe i would have noticed it, but it would never have become a regular something that i made a point to take notice of because of its oddity, excepting for the fact that i now have a dog.

it all sounds circular until i explain that i have a dog, so i walk said dog, and i walk said dog in the mornings and the evenings on a relatively regular route so that we can do all the business that dogs need to do when they wake up and before they go to sleep. of course when i get home from work we normally take a rambling, who-knows-where type walk, but i digress.

so on these relatively regular routes, i have come to notice this apartment. it is 2 blocks away from my house. it is a ground level apartment, and the lights are always on. always. at first i didn't think it was strange, you know, someone is trying to rent said apartment so it is always ready for showing.

it's a rather straightforward apartment. you can see the main room and the kitchen. they are divided by an island, which provides some nice counter space. it isn't too fancy, your regular "i designed for a rental" plastic counter tops and hanging cabinets that look super generic.

but i've been walking by it for weeks now. literally weeks. the lights are still on and it's still completely vacant, and now every time i go by i crane my neck to see- what is that room back there? is it a room? is it a closet? is that apartment a studio? is it a one bedroom? is it a magical wonderland that opens up into narnia?

but i can't help that i want to know. what is this vacant apartment in which the lights never go out? why does it sit there vacant, yet completely illuminated?

i always expect it to satisfy the peeping tom in me- it has no occupants, so i can rightly stare into the windows to my hearts content without fear of being caught, however it always leaves me vaguely dissatisfied because of course it has no occupants to make it interesting, and i can't quite ever know what the place really is until i've been inside.
it's beautiful really, the perfect lesson of how you can never know.

and if you don't know, now you know.

whoa
that was bad

xo
alyce