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So it's September 1st and I am NOT moving, thank GOD. This will be the first time I have ever lived in one place for more than a continuous year since I graduated from high school (I suppose I lived in one dorm room two years in a row, but I had to move out for the summer and then back in, so it doesn't count). Though I didn't live here over the summer, so I haven't actually lived here a year, but my stuff stayed put, which makes a big difference.
My parents moved when I was nine years old, and then I left and went to college when I was 18. So I lived in my first house for nine years, my second house for nine years, and then I've spent the past nine years in four dorm rooms, six apartments, one long-term guesthouse, and my parents' place. I've moved 17 times since I left home for college. Ugh. So I am SO GLAD to be staying put this fall.
I am celebrating by fixing up my place. It used to be that I didn't give even a tiny little crap what my living space looked or felt like, but over the past few years I've come to really appreciate a living space that looks and feels inviting and warm and neat. I concentrate better in spaces like this. It doesn't have to be all Williams-Sonoma or HGTV, but I do appreciate functionality and a lack of clutter and pleasing aesthetics over a bunch of furniture and crap that's just been tossed in a room. So. Today, on the day that I am NOT moving, I am putting up curtains and purging crap and organizing and hanging and rearranging. I'm trying to get everything feeling nice and soothing before school starts, so that when I have free time I can spend it doing whatever I feel like doing, instead of feeling like I should be doing something around the apartment.
And sorry to be kind of shallow here, but OMG my curtains look so awesome. Especially considering I got them for dirt cheap at Ross. The whole shebang cost more money than I ever like to spend on what is, in truth, Superfluous Junk ($25 for curtains and $14 for curtain rods at IKEA), but...they look so pretty. It's like my apartment is inhabited by Real Adults. Or at least one Real Adult (because my roommate still has his Corner of Chaos...but I edit it out of my vision whenever I behold my gorgeous living room). Oh, curtains!
Anyway.
School starts next Tuesday. I was supposed to start my research assistant position this past Monday, but my advisor, super-duper organized guy that he is, didn't have anything for me to do, so he emailed me this busy work assignment that he kind of did for me in the process of explaining it in the email. So I've had gobs of free time to hang curtains. I meet with him and some other project staff tomorrow, though, and things will probably start moving then. I'm actually pretty excited about my position. I will get to learn Drupal, which I've been wanting to do, and I think it will be interesting and fulfilling, yet flexible and low-key. Um, yay? I'm also taking two terribly Objective and Straightforward classes this semester, and nothing further (except seminars), which means that I very likely won't be responsible for coming up with any earth-shatteringly-brilliant ideas of my own, which sounds lovely.
All for now.
My parents moved when I was nine years old, and then I left and went to college when I was 18. So I lived in my first house for nine years, my second house for nine years, and then I've spent the past nine years in four dorm rooms, six apartments, one long-term guesthouse, and my parents' place. I've moved 17 times since I left home for college. Ugh. So I am SO GLAD to be staying put this fall.
I am celebrating by fixing up my place. It used to be that I didn't give even a tiny little crap what my living space looked or felt like, but over the past few years I've come to really appreciate a living space that looks and feels inviting and warm and neat. I concentrate better in spaces like this. It doesn't have to be all Williams-Sonoma or HGTV, but I do appreciate functionality and a lack of clutter and pleasing aesthetics over a bunch of furniture and crap that's just been tossed in a room. So. Today, on the day that I am NOT moving, I am putting up curtains and purging crap and organizing and hanging and rearranging. I'm trying to get everything feeling nice and soothing before school starts, so that when I have free time I can spend it doing whatever I feel like doing, instead of feeling like I should be doing something around the apartment.
And sorry to be kind of shallow here, but OMG my curtains look so awesome. Especially considering I got them for dirt cheap at Ross. The whole shebang cost more money than I ever like to spend on what is, in truth, Superfluous Junk ($25 for curtains and $14 for curtain rods at IKEA), but...they look so pretty. It's like my apartment is inhabited by Real Adults. Or at least one Real Adult (because my roommate still has his Corner of Chaos...but I edit it out of my vision whenever I behold my gorgeous living room). Oh, curtains!
Anyway.
School starts next Tuesday. I was supposed to start my research assistant position this past Monday, but my advisor, super-duper organized guy that he is, didn't have anything for me to do, so he emailed me this busy work assignment that he kind of did for me in the process of explaining it in the email. So I've had gobs of free time to hang curtains. I meet with him and some other project staff tomorrow, though, and things will probably start moving then. I'm actually pretty excited about my position. I will get to learn Drupal, which I've been wanting to do, and I think it will be interesting and fulfilling, yet flexible and low-key. Um, yay? I'm also taking two terribly Objective and Straightforward classes this semester, and nothing further (except seminars), which means that I very likely won't be responsible for coming up with any earth-shatteringly-brilliant ideas of my own, which sounds lovely.
All for now.