While Gailor has been doing her community service, I've been getting to know her new roommate. This is Allison, who brought FOUR cutting boards with her from San Francisco. One for fruit, another one for vegetables and so on. She and Gailor knew each other briefly when they worked at the same place in LA, and met again at a weekend here.

The fridge is going to be looking very different in this new living arrangement. Allison loves to cook, she told me. Her mother is sending all the equipment she needs like major pots and pans and colanders (not sure my daughter knows what a colander is, although she could explain amortization).

Allison uses, she told me, healthful, organic foods, and plans to cook things in quantity like turkey chili and freeze it in individual servings etc. etc.

I told her Gailor would be good at setting the table.