So this is what walls look like...

It is almost like New York.

The lights of Kitchenistan begin to shine and petty crime shrivels away. Gone is the graffiti that had shown up on the walls.

Partially that is due to a hard line on crime. Partially it is because there's new wall board up! Urban renewal. No more exposed studs (besides me), no more spray painted wood chunks. Just smooth gypsum! The kitchen and both bathrooms have been addressed, leaving everything in the house covered in a fine white powder that is probably also cementing the cilia and inner workings of my lungs. But that is OK because it signals that the end is near.

I tried to clean today, to no avail. And really, why bother? New flooring goes in tomorrow and throughout the week. So the fine white powder will be replaced by a fine off-white powder in that process...