open door policy, but some restrictions apply

Since moving to my new apartment, somewhat amazingly, I have yet to spend a Shabbos here alone, that is, without a friend spending the weekend with me. But one of these weeks, the initial excitement of having a friend with a place in the city will wear off, and I’ll have to find alternative forms of entertainment to giving my friends outsider tours of “the scene.” Or I could just go home for the weekend. Which is becoming more and more of a tempting weekend destination. I admit a cop-out, but I haven’t yet morphed into a true “social creature,” almost always preferring the company of the people I grew up with to anyone else. So hoping my friends don’t prematurely tire of the Upper West Side weekend experience, since I think I already have…