grab bag of post - pics, facebook, meme, dorky!jensen
no dog sightings today. have a couple non-dog pics instead:
if dean winchester were a cat - food is involved. :D i mean, come on, it's dean.
long eared israeli hedge - the person who rescued him from a main street gave him food and water "for the road" (hee) before setting him loose in a safer place.
i'm still trying to figure out facebook as a way to keep in touch with people and keep them updated on your life. (aside from the one-line "so-and-so is..." status updates. mine now says i haven't forgotten how to curl but am still not very good at it. which is true. i remembered that i kind of suck. :D ) i'm sorely tempted to start pointing people over here when they ask how i am and what i've been up to. i mean, look, aside from my sister and my cousin and people i know from lj anyway, everyone i've friended on facebook is someone i knew in nashville, and we moved away in 1984. we are all such entirely different people i may as well send them here. it's easier than trying to catch someone up on half my life. and y'know, as horrible as it sounds, a lot of my facebook friends, either we didn't particularly like each other by the time i moved, or i don't really remember them, and i think of them as strangers i'm only kind of interested in getting to know. and if i were to meet a total stranger now, i'd give them my lj if i gave them any way to follow me. i wouldn't volunteer that i'm on facebook, because i don't really use it. possibly i just don't want to invest the time and energy into getting involved with another social networking site, or maybe i'm just so used to the lj model that another type of site doesn't work as well for me.
man, when inga emailed me and said hi, how the hell are you, i should've said hi, i'm good, it's been a really long time, here's my lj. i might still do that.
in other news, i did sunshine95's bookshelf/bookporn meme. i have a lot of books, altho maybe it's more accurate to say that i seem to have a lot of bookshelves. i did not take pictures of the box of books in my basement, or the boxes in my parents' basement. someday when i have my own place i'm going to invest in some tall bookshelves and unpack all the damn boxes.
first, the bedroom:
the little white bookshelf. on top is a little standing mirror and a pop-up paper model of van gogh's house in arles which (i think) he shared with paul gauguin for a while. (i'm pretty sure i spelled paul's last name wrong. >.< ) the top shelf is graphic novels [1], lots of guidebooks, regular fiction, sf/f, and some past-life type books my mom gave me. o.O the bottom shelf is more graphic novels, more fiction, poetry, and autobiography. (random factoid: i had a class in grad school with mandy sayer - dreamtime alice - but i had no idea she was writing a book until i bought it years later.) i'm not sure what's in the envelopes on the floor, but i think credit reports and pics from my friend jodi's wedding. you'll note that i seem to have run out of shelf space. this is a running theme.
the first little wood bookshelf. on top are, well, you can read the titles. :D and the mask i got in venice. the top shelf is misc non-fiction, fairy tales, and something by nick bantock, and i'm not 100% sure what's behind the little picture. the bottom shelf is books about buildings, writers, tattoos, pretty boys, corsets, the nightmare before christmas, and kavalier and clay. you can see some of my bedside table, which has some books on it as well as the wee stuffed hedge ephemera gave me when i visited her in june. also ladies of grace adieu which seems to be upside-down is hers and i should really read it and send it back. the tall churches book won't fit on any of my bookshelves which is why it's on the floor. it's full of fabulous tall photos of churches.
the second little wood bookshelf. the top shelf is fantasy/scifi, murder mystery (set in boston! :D ), biography, manga which i can't read, and some books i made. the middle shelf is more books i made, stationery, and a box of postcards. under the box is my photo album from when i went to greece a bunch of years ago. the bottom shelf is another photo album, books with pictures (photos, comics), the vertigo tarot, boxes that i think have photos in them, a couple empty picture frames, and a stack of friendly hostility prints which i haven't framed yet because i am a lazy-ass.
aaaand the big bookshelf, bottom half. the bottom shelf is photo albums, graphic novels that are too tall for other shelves, a book of maps, and a massive stack of paper, spiral notebooks, folders, and probably a ring binder that i think is all stories and other stuff i've written. i think. the next shelf up is pretty much all graphic novels, with stamps and a crapload of cards and letters stuffed in on the right. the next shelf from that is, uh, more graphic novels (good god, i have a lot of them O.O ) and medieval-y non-fiction, mostly reference and epic poetry/mythology. (or however you class the mabinogi.) the purple folder is from a wincon, either 2007 or 2006. the top shelf in the photo is sf/f, anthologies, dog poetry, autobiography, other non-fiction, regular fiction, and some smut.
you might have noted that i put a lot of stuff on my bookshelves that isn't books. i took down a bunch of pictures and postcards so you could see what was behind them.
big bookshelf, top half. :D the top shelf is reference, anthologies, and pirates in the park which is a kid's book i loved when i was wee. also there's a paper model of a modern house and a dragon beanie baby. i like beanie babies. i also like paper houses. the next shelf down is more reference and anthologies, regular fiction, sf/f, poetry, and non-fiction. the next shelf after that is non-fiction, smut, sf/f, dog poetry, a play, regular fiction, my address book, and two journals (one i used as a diary in high school and the other is a travel journal).
the stuff is a post in its own right. i have a lot of random things.
and now the guest room:
the short bookshelf. the top shelf is robert jordan, other misc sf/f, and a postcard book. the middle shelf is all misc fic, plus bullfinch's mythology and a book of quotes. the bottom shelf is - surprise - graphic novels, issues of animerica magazine, a bunch of comics that are too big for my comic boxes (i think they're all love and rockets and the magazine-sized mulehide issues of poison elves), a book on web design, some other magazines, and a couple photo albums. on top of the bookshelf are more photo albums, a pop-up book on architecture, an origami kit, a bookbinding kit, and a bag with last year's holiday cards in it. *cough* i also have one of the planning studies we did at work, but i can't remember how i got to take it home.
the tall bookshelf. random computer/web design manuals, photo albums (they're everywhere), fiction, non-fiction, and a fuzzy book with a chicken on the front. you can just see a gray bag behind the stuffed chicken, and inside it is a really nice leather-bound blank book i got in florence and which i'm actually too intimidated to write in. >.< next to it is a little photo album with pics of all the books i'd made when i applied for the bookbinding program at the north bennet street school. i have a portfolio. :D please to be ignoring the tangle of extension cords and what-all on the bottom shelf. i apparently have no concept of appropriate storage.
and the kitchen:
cookbooks and phone books, tucked away in a corner of the pantry. clearly i don't have enough cookbooks, because there's a whole empty shelf there.
and, um, the dining room:
this is what i use my spare dining room chairs for - book storage. what? they're big books. the little red book on top is a reproduction of a london guidebook from the early 50s and is really, really cool.
and the living room:
the taller bookshelf. on top are mostly guidebooks, with some fantasy novels, a vampire encyclopedia, and a book about the peking-paris road rally, which is fascinating. the top shelf is fantasy, regular fiction, a nancy drew, some beatrix potter, and a sort-of autobiography. and two boxes of cassette tapes. the next shelf is non-fiction, regular fiction, fantasy, another travel journal, a blank book, and an anthology of 24-hour comics. the next shelf down is all cassettes, and the bottom shelf is vhs tapes. (yes, i still have a working vcr. it just doesn't work fabulously well.) this is it from the side.
and the last bookshelf on the tour, which is at the end of the couch. my phone sits on top of it. the top shelf is all my lone wolf and cubs, which all fit in one place, yay, and the bottom shelf is regular fiction, homoerotica, fantasy, graphic novels - i cannot recommend blankets enough - frank lloyd wright, and jeff buckley.
the only books missing are the two coffee table type books on my dining room table - one on italy and one on the yin yu tang house at the peabody essex museum - and generation kill, which i'm reading right now and is thus in my shoulder bag.
i sort my books by how they look on the shelf, where they fit on the shelf, and (theoretically) in the same place if they're a series. i find things by trial and error.
[1] by "graphic novel" i mean both "a single story told in comic book form" (like persepolis or blankets or grant morrison's mystery play) and "a number of comic book issues collected in one volume which may or may not tell a single story" (like sandman and blade of the immortal and blue monday and love and rockets).
this will never not cheer me up. i need an icon of jensen playing air guitar on his thigh. such a dork.
if dean winchester were a cat - food is involved. :D i mean, come on, it's dean.
long eared israeli hedge - the person who rescued him from a main street gave him food and water "for the road" (hee) before setting him loose in a safer place.
i'm still trying to figure out facebook as a way to keep in touch with people and keep them updated on your life. (aside from the one-line "so-and-so is..." status updates. mine now says i haven't forgotten how to curl but am still not very good at it. which is true. i remembered that i kind of suck. :D ) i'm sorely tempted to start pointing people over here when they ask how i am and what i've been up to. i mean, look, aside from my sister and my cousin and people i know from lj anyway, everyone i've friended on facebook is someone i knew in nashville, and we moved away in 1984. we are all such entirely different people i may as well send them here. it's easier than trying to catch someone up on half my life. and y'know, as horrible as it sounds, a lot of my facebook friends, either we didn't particularly like each other by the time i moved, or i don't really remember them, and i think of them as strangers i'm only kind of interested in getting to know. and if i were to meet a total stranger now, i'd give them my lj if i gave them any way to follow me. i wouldn't volunteer that i'm on facebook, because i don't really use it. possibly i just don't want to invest the time and energy into getting involved with another social networking site, or maybe i'm just so used to the lj model that another type of site doesn't work as well for me.
man, when inga emailed me and said hi, how the hell are you, i should've said hi, i'm good, it's been a really long time, here's my lj. i might still do that.
in other news, i did sunshine95's bookshelf/bookporn meme. i have a lot of books, altho maybe it's more accurate to say that i seem to have a lot of bookshelves. i did not take pictures of the box of books in my basement, or the boxes in my parents' basement. someday when i have my own place i'm going to invest in some tall bookshelves and unpack all the damn boxes.
first, the bedroom:
the little white bookshelf. on top is a little standing mirror and a pop-up paper model of van gogh's house in arles which (i think) he shared with paul gauguin for a while. (i'm pretty sure i spelled paul's last name wrong. >.< ) the top shelf is graphic novels [1], lots of guidebooks, regular fiction, sf/f, and some past-life type books my mom gave me. o.O the bottom shelf is more graphic novels, more fiction, poetry, and autobiography. (random factoid: i had a class in grad school with mandy sayer - dreamtime alice - but i had no idea she was writing a book until i bought it years later.) i'm not sure what's in the envelopes on the floor, but i think credit reports and pics from my friend jodi's wedding. you'll note that i seem to have run out of shelf space. this is a running theme.
the first little wood bookshelf. on top are, well, you can read the titles. :D and the mask i got in venice. the top shelf is misc non-fiction, fairy tales, and something by nick bantock, and i'm not 100% sure what's behind the little picture. the bottom shelf is books about buildings, writers, tattoos, pretty boys, corsets, the nightmare before christmas, and kavalier and clay. you can see some of my bedside table, which has some books on it as well as the wee stuffed hedge ephemera gave me when i visited her in june. also ladies of grace adieu which seems to be upside-down is hers and i should really read it and send it back. the tall churches book won't fit on any of my bookshelves which is why it's on the floor. it's full of fabulous tall photos of churches.
the second little wood bookshelf. the top shelf is fantasy/scifi, murder mystery (set in boston! :D ), biography, manga which i can't read, and some books i made. the middle shelf is more books i made, stationery, and a box of postcards. under the box is my photo album from when i went to greece a bunch of years ago. the bottom shelf is another photo album, books with pictures (photos, comics), the vertigo tarot, boxes that i think have photos in them, a couple empty picture frames, and a stack of friendly hostility prints which i haven't framed yet because i am a lazy-ass.
aaaand the big bookshelf, bottom half. the bottom shelf is photo albums, graphic novels that are too tall for other shelves, a book of maps, and a massive stack of paper, spiral notebooks, folders, and probably a ring binder that i think is all stories and other stuff i've written. i think. the next shelf up is pretty much all graphic novels, with stamps and a crapload of cards and letters stuffed in on the right. the next shelf from that is, uh, more graphic novels (good god, i have a lot of them O.O ) and medieval-y non-fiction, mostly reference and epic poetry/mythology. (or however you class the mabinogi.) the purple folder is from a wincon, either 2007 or 2006. the top shelf in the photo is sf/f, anthologies, dog poetry, autobiography, other non-fiction, regular fiction, and some smut.
you might have noted that i put a lot of stuff on my bookshelves that isn't books. i took down a bunch of pictures and postcards so you could see what was behind them.
big bookshelf, top half. :D the top shelf is reference, anthologies, and pirates in the park which is a kid's book i loved when i was wee. also there's a paper model of a modern house and a dragon beanie baby. i like beanie babies. i also like paper houses. the next shelf down is more reference and anthologies, regular fiction, sf/f, poetry, and non-fiction. the next shelf after that is non-fiction, smut, sf/f, dog poetry, a play, regular fiction, my address book, and two journals (one i used as a diary in high school and the other is a travel journal).
the stuff is a post in its own right. i have a lot of random things.
and now the guest room:
the short bookshelf. the top shelf is robert jordan, other misc sf/f, and a postcard book. the middle shelf is all misc fic, plus bullfinch's mythology and a book of quotes. the bottom shelf is - surprise - graphic novels, issues of animerica magazine, a bunch of comics that are too big for my comic boxes (i think they're all love and rockets and the magazine-sized mulehide issues of poison elves), a book on web design, some other magazines, and a couple photo albums. on top of the bookshelf are more photo albums, a pop-up book on architecture, an origami kit, a bookbinding kit, and a bag with last year's holiday cards in it. *cough* i also have one of the planning studies we did at work, but i can't remember how i got to take it home.
the tall bookshelf. random computer/web design manuals, photo albums (they're everywhere), fiction, non-fiction, and a fuzzy book with a chicken on the front. you can just see a gray bag behind the stuffed chicken, and inside it is a really nice leather-bound blank book i got in florence and which i'm actually too intimidated to write in. >.< next to it is a little photo album with pics of all the books i'd made when i applied for the bookbinding program at the north bennet street school. i have a portfolio. :D please to be ignoring the tangle of extension cords and what-all on the bottom shelf. i apparently have no concept of appropriate storage.
and the kitchen:
cookbooks and phone books, tucked away in a corner of the pantry. clearly i don't have enough cookbooks, because there's a whole empty shelf there.
and, um, the dining room:
this is what i use my spare dining room chairs for - book storage. what? they're big books. the little red book on top is a reproduction of a london guidebook from the early 50s and is really, really cool.
and the living room:
the taller bookshelf. on top are mostly guidebooks, with some fantasy novels, a vampire encyclopedia, and a book about the peking-paris road rally, which is fascinating. the top shelf is fantasy, regular fiction, a nancy drew, some beatrix potter, and a sort-of autobiography. and two boxes of cassette tapes. the next shelf is non-fiction, regular fiction, fantasy, another travel journal, a blank book, and an anthology of 24-hour comics. the next shelf down is all cassettes, and the bottom shelf is vhs tapes. (yes, i still have a working vcr. it just doesn't work fabulously well.) this is it from the side.
and the last bookshelf on the tour, which is at the end of the couch. my phone sits on top of it. the top shelf is all my lone wolf and cubs, which all fit in one place, yay, and the bottom shelf is regular fiction, homoerotica, fantasy, graphic novels - i cannot recommend blankets enough - frank lloyd wright, and jeff buckley.
the only books missing are the two coffee table type books on my dining room table - one on italy and one on the yin yu tang house at the peabody essex museum - and generation kill, which i'm reading right now and is thus in my shoulder bag.
i sort my books by how they look on the shelf, where they fit on the shelf, and (theoretically) in the same place if they're a series. i find things by trial and error.
[1] by "graphic novel" i mean both "a single story told in comic book form" (like persepolis or blankets or grant morrison's mystery play) and "a number of comic book issues collected in one volume which may or may not tell a single story" (like sandman and blade of the immortal and blue monday and love and rockets).
this will never not cheer me up. i need an icon of jensen playing air guitar on his thigh. such a dork.