This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 929. What are you up to? What it means and how to answer.

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smooth way to ride the line between being interested but cool and

collected in English.

Hey Michelle, how you doing?

Hey Lindsay, I'm good, I'm good, how are you?

So, not bad, but Michelle, what are you up to tonight?

Um, I'm not sure. I'm probably going to make something for dinner and just relax I kind of just need a night to just

Hang out what about you? Yeah, well actually I'm going to look at apartments tonight because I'm moving to a new apartment.

Oh, that's right. Okay, good luck.

Yeah, yeah, it's quite a hustle around here finding a new apartment. It's quite interesting.

Running around with brokers and a new apartment. It's quite interesting, running around with brokers

and all this stuff.

And but it's kind of interesting, too,

to see people's spaces.

You know what I mean?

Oh, well, I, yeah, when I'm looking for stuff

for places, I absolutely,

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