Tales from the Water Closet

My favorite part of any house or apartment is the bathroom. Whether I'm visiting a relative, having a few drinks at a friend's apartment, or surfing on a stranger's sofa, I always make it a point to check out their WC, regardless of the status of my current bowel movements. I'm always a bit surprised, therefore, that I chose to live in this apartment. Aside from the fact that having no roommate can sometimes get lonely, my bathroom is the tiniest thing I've ever seen. Yet when I first laid eyes on this Bates Motel adobe abode (If you've been here, you'd understand. Pictures, perhaps? I'll forget.), I was tickled by the miniature space where I knew I'd be spending most of my time. While it doesn't have a lock (something I'm very into), there's a giant step-up into the bathroom, something that took me a while to get used to. Now, I love it. I feel as though I'm in a completely different part of the apartment, not a tiny, cramped closet adjacent to my bedroom.

Since it is the most revered room in Unnamed Building #12, I was sure to stock it with some literature, specifically an appropriately mini-sized MiniPedia, Great Civilizations, by Brenda Ralph Lewis. Because I haven't spent much time here lately, I've started reading it again and have even found some new things about the ancient Egyptian culture. The god, Re, representing the sun, would at the end of the day descend into the Underworld, leaving the world in darkness as he took on a perilous journey. At each hour, he would come upon a door guarded by a terrifying demon, each of which he would conquer in order to reascend and bring day back to the Egyptian people.