Laundry

(here is my laundry hung up to dry in our garden)


When I lived at my last apartment in San Francisco, I became very famous among those who knew me for being in a constant state of laundering. I was always somewhere along a continuum of the following steps:

•taking it down
•bringing it up
•digging through it on the couch
•moving it onto the bed if I wanted to sit and watch a movie
•moving it back to the couch if I wanted to go to sleep
•actually folding it
•getting more quarters so I could do the next two loads

Here in Jerusalem I do laundry even more frequently than I did in San Francisco if it is possible to conceive of that. Why? At first I could not understand, because there are so many things to do besides wash clothes! But then I realized that when one only has five pairs of pants and ten shirts, you go through clean clothes pretty quickly.