o what care I for a goose-feather bed?

[bluedevi]

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

Comments

[thecesspit]

Is the red wall on the correct side of your bed? I dunno which is the correct side, but try turning the bed around to find out which side makes the most sense...

[bluedevi]

It's at the foot of the bed. So I do see it when I wake up.

[mr_wombat]

Theres a few terms for them - gyppo, knacker, tinker, member of the travelling community. Thieving bastard is probably more common than any of them however.

[bluedevi]

Somehow it bothers me much less when Irish people do it. Wonder why.

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.

[wimble]

They're like wary pets who aren't quite sure what to make of you when you've been away a long time

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...)

[bluedevi]

Or maybe your computers propagate like strawberry plants, sending out runners cables, and if you leave the cables there for long enough, new computers will spring up where their ends touch the ground...

[julietk]

Maybe you have the Emo Cold that's been going round...

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.

[bluedevi]

Emo Cold! That must be it.

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?)

[julietk]

Hrm.... Helen Love! I actually have both a tape (from many years ago) & a playlist of Bouncy Music which I play for cheering-up purposes. It includes HL, & also Kenickie ("Come Out 2Nite"), "Girl All The Bad Guys Want", a couple of Raincoats tracks, some Bad Religion - that sort of thing :-)

[bluedevi]

Yeah! Come Out 2Nite always does the trick. I have it on an excellent mix tape miss_newham made me. Now if only I had the means of listening to tapes :)

[bluedevi]

Yum.

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.

[cartographer]

I am so looking forward to summer here it's untrue.

*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 :-)

[bluedevi]

To be honest, I don't know. I think I might have started seeing it on Americans' journals, but I can't remember. It started occasionally taking the place of 'so X it isn't funny'.

It works really well in Transmetropolitan, though!