The new apartment smell

My kitchen smells of capers and chicken. My hair is wet from sweat. Most of the boxes are unpacked, most of the roommates are in, and I only just recently learned what capers are.

I love change. I love finding a new place and making it home. Finding out exactly how long the chicken needs to cook for, I don't know, there's something in that challenge.

Redecorating, it helps.

And that smell, the smell is like clean chalk boards at the start of the school year. It's like the empty book in the Barnes and Noble gift section and it's like Control-N.

Starting over. It helps.