It's very much raining right now. But it's not cold. 52° Fahrenheit. That's sure not cold for January. But look out this one window and you might think...
Hell, sometimes it looks like it's snowing when it's not doing anything outside.
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I always enjoyed having a real window in a bathroom. Just the play of light and shadow can make time you spend there a little more entertaining than otherwise. We haven't had one ever since we began living in apartment buildings that were almost all designed with the bathroom in a closed off area - kitchens too. That's another thing I miss - the window over the kitchen sink. Still, we're lucky in this corner place to have more windows than most and they face east and south which is also a good thing.
I don't know if you saw Unherd today but there's a fascinating article by Robert Zaretsky called The Dreyfus Affair is Not Finished. I should probably have paid better attention to Emile Zola but this was an excellent introduction to an important part of his work.
I can't complain about a lack of windows, certainly. The kitchen has a little window, which is all it can handle really since it's more of a pantry. Maybe I should get curtains, but that's optional. Right now they just have venetian blinds which I've almost never lowered. When I change it tends to be in the bathroom with the door closed, and since the window is high up no one will see me. (Except the spy satellites of course, but what are you gonna do.) I'm glad you have a fair number of windows, outside those two rooms.
That was a good article on the Dreyfus affair. From what I'd gathered before, most of the French intellectual class was happy enough to let Dreyfus's punishment stand, so Zola showed courage there. I don't know all that much more about him, but I do remember reading and enjoying Therese Raquin in college.
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