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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odd Thoughts Podcast.

I'm Tracey Alloway.

Joe, you know I spend a lot of my time doing interior design.

I've bored you, I'm sure, with a lot of thoughts on this topic.

But then it struck me recently that actually what I'm doing is not really interior design.

It's actually just interior decorating.

Because I'm not really changing the structure of a particular house.

I don't like doing that in part because I'm lazy and I hate

construction mess, but also because it's a lot harder to change the particular design of a house than it is to just get new fabric for the windows or a new paint color.

There are more real world constraints.

Well, this is the other thing I've been thinking.

Am I a product of my time?