I just posted an ad on craigslist:

Are you a freelancer with no office to call your own? I’m a full-time, female freelance writer with a fairly large home office (large for Golden Hill, at least). I’m looking for another freelancer who might want to share space.

This post may be a long shot, but frankly I could use a little company in a professional office environment. We’d have to have similar work styles (mine is many hours typing quietly punctuated by a call here and there for an interview or from a client).

If you’re searching craigslist for a small office where you could be productive and see actual people, maybe we’d be a match.

As usual, I think I’m being too honest here, but I really can’t tell you how amazingly quiet this house is. I’ve been rattling about all day long, trying to fill the hours with work, a bath, coffee with a friend. It’s always worse just after the end of a relationship, and two weeks ago today D.J. and I called it quits.

Think about it: for probably 22 out of 24 hours a day, I don’t even use my voice. I don’t have a TV or a real radio, so most of the time the only noise in the house comes from the tapping of these typewriter keys. I go to the coffee shop, but really all I do is order and pay and say thank you.

I love my job. I love my independence. I have great friends who hang out when they can. But they leave their homes, go to work, meet their boyfriends, visit their families. The way I have set up this business is tough sometimes (and today I mean that as a severe understatement).