The CHASM

I haven't yet told you about the best part of my new apartment. In one of the bedrooms is a strange cabinet-like opening. When we were first looking at the place, I was like, what's this?
I thought maybe it was just going to be a little opening big enough to fit books or maybe if we were lucky a tv, or something. But to my surprise, it's a chasm. I call it that because once I read a book called House of Leaves that was about this house that just opened up into incredibly vacuous chasms and I think the chasms eventually swallowed people up. Anyhow. You could literally fit a twin sized bed in there. It's an ideal storage place, and on the one hand it scares me to have such a vast storage area because I know we're just going to throw stuff in there that we're never going to use again and should really throw out.

Then I had this wonderful idea. Instead of turning it into a horrible mess of clutter, why not carve out my own little space in there? As the British would say, Brilliant! I've put some of my trusty milk-crates and a little rug and some holiday lights and brought up goodies like my practice pad and some bachi and metronome. When I settle in more, it's going to be my little solace from the world. It's a little messy right now, but just wait.
I think the chasm is actually a void over the apartment complex's laundry room, so I don't think the sound of me tapping on my practice pad is going to bother anyone. I was in there tonight, working on my counting drill, a little paranoid that someone was going to pound on the wall to complain, when all of a sudden I heard a very loud thud, and then the whole chasm shuttered violently, and for a split second I was thinking, oh, I've really pissed someone off now, but then I realized that instead we were having a little earthquake, and you've never seen me jump out of anything so quick. I'm a native Californian and I've lived my way through several earthquakes and all their after shocks, but I think I'm going to stay out here for a while. Wouldn't want the chasm to swallow me up, afterall.