Apartments

John's apartment was near a view of the lake.  The apartment was on the second floor, and had a balcony.  I think the building had been a converted large house, but maybe not, maybe it had been built as an apartment building.  The porch was an outdoor deck, a walkway around the building with entranceways along it.  A wooden stairway outdoors led to the parking lot. 

The door opened to a living room, where John had a couch and tlelevision set, a kitchen with a table, and two bedrooms with a bathroom.  The rooms were small, but furnished with a desk, bed, table, closet.  The closet was too small.  Law books, casebooks, were on the desk and bed, the carpet was yellow.

The highlighters were pink, blue, green, and yellow.  Legal writing assignments took most of the space beside the typewriter.  I had a few memos to prepare for school.

During class breaks, I sat with other law students in the student lounge.  I read my assignments and prepared for class.  At lunch, I socialized with a few friends from school.  We talked.  They played cards.  We walked outside the school and back.

After I moved out of my tiny square student dorm room, I lived in an apartment; the last in the hall.  The living room had a fold out couch across the room from the kitchenette.  The rooms were small, but the lease was for a short term and the location a convenient walk from town.

The apartment had a screen door, metal and glass that opened to a wooden one with a lock.  A mailbox on the side of the front of the building had the number of the house stencilled on the front of it.

The door opened inward, and the floor was bare until just beyond the entranceway, where wall-to-wall carpeting began to cover the rest of the lower story.  A hall closet was filled with clothing, mostly boots and coats, maybe some dresses that I didn't always wear.  The kitchenette was the next section of the ground floor, and the counter obscured the oven, stove, storage shelves, and refrigerator from the lliving room.

The living room behind the counter had high chairs along the kitchen counter, behind them were blue fabric foam chairs, a couch, a table covered with law books and notebooks for school.  At the end of the living room was a glass door.  The sliding door had drapes in front of it.  It opened to a lawn.  Across from the couch were bookshelves covered with law books.  Graduate school books, for law school, and many foreign books in English, but foreign authors.  Some Spanish books with both languages printed.  Many German books in English.  A language book in German, flash cards, and taped language programs.

The coffee table in front of the couch was covered with schoolbooks.  A desk between the couch and the kitchenette had an electric typewriter on top of it and a chair and a long bench.  It was cluttered with papers, brieifs for school, outlines, notes and memos.

Manila folders filled with legal notes and letters and briefs were underneath the bookshelves.  Folders with outlines for school arguments were filled with index cards and notes for arguments stapled to each side.

A stairway, carpeted, led to the bedroom and bathroom.  A landing with a hall separated two bedrooms, one that was used, and one unused and only furnished with a bed, bureau, closet.  The other had the same furniture.  The closet was overfilled with clothes.  A bureau had two photographs of John on top of the chest of drawers, and a painted wooden box, a brass clock.  The windowsill had a vase of dried flowers.  Another vase of flowers was on the bureau.  Two posters for the fall college football weekend at Harvard were on the wall.  The floor was covered with law books, notebooks, and highlighter marker pens.