Sure, you can work around the pizza trodden into the carpet, maybe lay a rug over the teenager vomit, wear shoes so the spilled beer doesn’t soak into your socks.

But if you spend a little time and effort cleaning the house, even if your aunt isn’t coming, you still have a lovely clean house! If you keep measures in place to keep it clean, no more wild parties, a few storage baskets, invest in a roomba, it’ll stay clean for when your children live there too.

Me, absolutely haunted with uneasiness about the future of the human species and the degradation of Earth’s biosphere, constantly contemplating what awareness of the possibility of extinction means for us and our behavior towards each other and the world around us: “Um. That one, I guess.”