meditated giddy flies

meditated this morning. worked late and went to bed when i arrived home. would have woken up refreshed if i had fallen asleep when i went to bed. but flatmate arrived around 11:00pm. giddy with excitement when seeing the newly painted dining table and chairs which the landlord provided, he talked loudly and moved furniture about. the table is bigger one the previous one, it's beautiful and can accomodate large dinner parties producing more joyous noise.

i wrote this note to my flatmates today, after seeing some cigarette butts in a jar. we'll see how it flies. "i don't want our friendship to be damaged by this point, but i need to state my request that if you have guests that smoke, please ask them to smoke outside. it's a house rule. i don't don't want to relive a big blowout fight i had with a former flatmate, a french guy, about smoking. i know we live in China where smoking is allowed in many places. that is changing. the reality is that side stream smoke glues to the walls of residences, and the toxins that are the byproducts of smoking stay there and affect the health of residents. i'm a green, sustainability consultant. the smoking room is the balcony and all previous flatmates, all of whom smoked, respected that."

update: it's a mystery who smoked. it wasn't the flatmates.