The Flat

I n second year, I moved to a small flat. It is some 660 square feet, a number too small and big to mean anything; it is big enough for me and my roommate to each have our own sizable rooms, but small enough for us to hear each others voice if we spoke a bit loud over the humdrum noises of the quiet street we overlook. We are in the first set of units, the block closest to the street, and the…