Bliss!

[trista]

I had a migraine coming on when I left the office yesterday. I was able to ignore it while I was at work, due in large part to your support of my apathy. My post on not caring currently has 170 comments, which I take to mean that you don't care, either, and you feel very strongly about it. So. Migraine. I do not like them, Sam I Am. It didn't

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[oxlahun]

I have one of those cubey things (in the birch finish, IIRC) and I absolutely love it. Love. It. It makes me happy. I keep books and pants and other important things on it.

[trista]

Books and pants both definitely fall into the Important Things category! I was going to get a second one for my bedroom, with those wonderful baskets that fit perfectly into the cubes, and use that instead of a dresser. And then I realized that I am far too likely to buy enough clothes to fill all the baskets if I do that, so I got a dresser instead. I'm considering a second cubey thing for the livingroom, though, that would go against the mostly useless wall.

[oxlahun]

I don't use the baskets. Jeans and shorts and neatly folded sweatshirts (slightly dusty) aren't ugly enough that they have to be hidden.

The socks that I rarely wear are in a basket, but it's not one of the ones that's "supposed" to go with the shelf, just another one that fits the holes.

[trista]

My folding is not always tidy enought that I'd be willing to not hide my shirts and shorts. And I'm pretty sure I'd hear my mom's voice in my head telling me how much nicer my room would look if I had proper drawers or at least baskets.

[oxlahun]

Shirts hang in the closet, which doesn't have room for anything else. The ratty ones get the old plastic hangars, everything is is on beatiful wooden "bumerang" hangers from Ikea, which seem to have gone up in price recently but are still a whole lot less expensive than their analog at Target.

I have the advantage of considering my apartment more like a dorm room than a permanent residence, though, so there's far less motivation to keep it any neater than is absolutely necessary. Also my mom lives 1000 miles away, and has visited once, for 4 hours, in the 3 years I've been here. It was sufficient to clean the day beforehand.

[trista]

I have nowhere near enough room in my closet for all my clothes. I have a squillion shirts squished in, and all my pants and skirts. Sweaters live in seven gigantic plastic bins which really could be moved down to my storage locker any day now. All the foldy stuff will go in my glorious new dresser.

This is my first time living alone with furniture that I've chosen for myself in an apartment that I chose for myself and am paying for by myself, so I'm trying really hard not to go the dorm room mentality route. It would be so easy to do that, though, since I'm the only one living there and can do whatever I want with my stuff and with my furniture and decor.

[oxlahun]

I should be clear. Short-sleeved shirts that are in regular rotation hang in the closet. Long-sleeved shirts, and winter coats, and other stuff I don't need very often are stuffed in the hall closet, much to the chagrin of my flatmate who wanted to keep hall-closet-y stuff there.

... and also in two separate closets in the other apartment in Massachusetts, along with blankets and sweaters and other wintry things that I really don't have much use for at all, ever.

[oxlahun]

And shoes. Shoes, everywhere!

But you can appreciate that, I'm sure. :)

[trista]

Oh, most definitely!

[oxlahun]

It's very handy. I keep my wife there, too.

Getting a little expensive these days, though. The rent goes up, the grad student stipend doesn't. Feh.

[trista]

I don't have a wife to store, so perhaps I could find a smaller, cheaper clothing apartment. :P

Are you enjoying school?

[oxlahun]

Some days, it's great. It's exactly where I need to be to do the things I want in my life. Some days (like today, and the past several), when I'm depressed out of my skull, it's quite the opposite.

The latter are becoming more frequent than the former. Concern over this tends to fuel that cycle, of course. Meh.

[trista]

Well, that's not good. Are you closed to being finished? Or at least to a break or a transition of some sort that might make it fun and exciting again?

[oxlahun]

The waxing and waning of funness and excitinghood isn't a property of the work, it's a side effect of the wiring inside my skull. The work is always awesome, and it always sucks. Getting back around to the good side, and staying there, is the issue.

If I can wrestle the demons into submission, I should have a dissertation proposal by the end of the year. That'll be a major milestone. After that, it's just doing the rest of the work that I propose. And writing a small book about it. From scratch.

Can you tell I'm all a-twitter with anticipation?

[trista]

Can you tell I'm all a-twitter with anticipation?

I can! So, writing a small book from scratch. That sounds both terrifying and very fulfilling.

[oxlahun]

Disseration, small book, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. Both terrifying and fulfilling. I'm currently locked pretty heavily into terrifying, and keep waiting for the reëmergence of the blind faith that it will eventually become fulfilling.

It's in there. I know it's in there somewhere. I'm gonna go for a walk and see if I can sweat it out.