Huston, We Have Office...
Jan. 5th, 2009 06:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiOn Friday I went down with another round of sinus issues--I'm not sure what it was, but I felt horrible and was running a modest fever. I stayed home from work which was decidedly unpleasant because that was a store inventory day. *sigh*
However! Sunday I felt well enough to tackle the problem of My Office. The problem was, it was just a room with so many boxes of stuff (mostly books) that it was difficult to walk from one end to the other. After a couple of hours of work, I now have a functioning office space. 'Functioning' in this context means that I have a card table and chair to serve as a desk and I have put up some bookshelves and begun filling them with books (including all of my L5R books). There are still boxes of books strewn about the room, but some of them contain books I want to put in the living room if I can manage it, so it will be a bit before anything gets done with them.
Eventually I'd like to get a real desk, but in the meantime I'm set up for writing. Which is good, because I have a LOT of writing to do this month. L5R projects, catching up on correspondence, some side projects of my own...sometimes I question my sanity. But 'be able to write more' was one of my justifications for getting this apartment, so now is the time to show that is was worth it.
Oh, and I'd like to say something about my card table. It's not what you are thinking of: a cheap rickety metal thing. It's solidly built wood with a nice cherry-like finish--the lux version of a folding card table. It was passed down from my grandmother via my mom. Grandma had been a dedicated bridge player, and I think this was the table she used to set up in her living room when she hosted bridge parties. I guess you could say that gaming runs in my family! When I think of it that way, I kinda want to keep the table as my desk.
However! Sunday I felt well enough to tackle the problem of My Office. The problem was, it was just a room with so many boxes of stuff (mostly books) that it was difficult to walk from one end to the other. After a couple of hours of work, I now have a functioning office space. 'Functioning' in this context means that I have a card table and chair to serve as a desk and I have put up some bookshelves and begun filling them with books (including all of my L5R books). There are still boxes of books strewn about the room, but some of them contain books I want to put in the living room if I can manage it, so it will be a bit before anything gets done with them.
Eventually I'd like to get a real desk, but in the meantime I'm set up for writing. Which is good, because I have a LOT of writing to do this month. L5R projects, catching up on correspondence, some side projects of my own...sometimes I question my sanity. But 'be able to write more' was one of my justifications for getting this apartment, so now is the time to show that is was worth it.
Oh, and I'd like to say something about my card table. It's not what you are thinking of: a cheap rickety metal thing. It's solidly built wood with a nice cherry-like finish--the lux version of a folding card table. It was passed down from my grandmother via my mom. Grandma had been a dedicated bridge player, and I think this was the table she used to set up in her living room when she hosted bridge parties. I guess you could say that gaming runs in my family! When I think of it that way, I kinda want to keep the table as my desk.
