After some consideration, I put my microwave on the free section of craigslist chicago It's raining today, or I might have put it on the curb. I haven't used it in about a month, which was a weaning process to see if I could do it. Two days ago I felt a pang of longing when my leftover polenta came out of the toaster oven with a chilly middle, but all in all I'd rather watch movies all the time and do a couple more dishes. After a misfire with a guy named Tito, it ended up getting picked up by a fellow named Noelangelo, who said he was going to send it to his parents in the Philippines. He was pretty sceptical about its functionality, so I didn't trouble him to take a photograph, lest it sketch him out too much. But he had a change of heart, I guess, because his parting words were "Merry Christmas to me!"