Table just outside my room. Only I use it, and rarely. Again, I'm paying $235 a month, plus around $30 for electricity and water. Wifi is free. Twice a week my room is cleaned. DC HomeStay has a swimming pool and a garden. Since I've moved into the 1901 building, noise is no longer a problem. The 735 page book I'm slowly reading is the Selected Stories of Nam Cao (1917-1951). In the original Vietnamese, of course.