I am closer than I've ever been to the room I have in my head. I got the first lot of my stuff back last night, from
secretrebel's attic, and spent several glorious hours book-geeking - sorting them into categories and shelving them. Then I lit the lanterns I posted back from China and lay on the bed staring at the swirly patterns they make on the walls and
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Maybe because, over here, sometimes you get a creeping feeling that when some people say it they mean 'anyone who sounds Irish and looks a bit scruffy'. Or perhaps I'm paranoid.
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They're not going to shed, are they?
Or chew threw the cables?
(Although, maybe that's fair. Since the cables are obviously the results of my pets shedding...)
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Having been sleeping in a room with a Red Wall for over a year now (although ours is at the head of the bed; which is the only way the room makes sense), I think it's unlikely to be that, anyway.
I am greatly in favour of a) Getting Rid Of Excess Stuff & b) Keeping The Stuff You Do Have In Non-Chaos, & maintain that both of the above are good for mental wellbeing. Although I struggle to apply this to books... My current plan is that when we next run out of shelf space (i.e. once the lovely bookcases I made all by myself are full) I am going to have a Proper Cull & get rid of all the stuff I'll really never reread. Or institute a one-in one-out policy, which is a slower way of doing the same thing, really.
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I wonder if you can cure it by listening to the most non-emo music you can find? (What would that be? Latin? Euphoric trance? What's the anti-emo for you?)
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But I found another way. I cycled up to the top of a hill which is right next to my house and discovered you can see the whole town from there. And also found more woods. I am so looking forward to summer here it's untrue.
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*peers* I heard "..so X it's untrue" for the first time when I read Transmetropolitan a few weeks ago, and I thought it was terribly clever, since the characters were all in search of the truth, yada, and I liked it a lot. Did you start saying it recently, or is it something people have always said and I just never noticed. I should dearly like to know :-)
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It works really well in Transmetropolitan, though!
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