Behaving like a Sober Professional and Property Owner

[childeproof]

Life is incredibly busy and involving much Behaving like a Sober Professional, and buzzing between countries carrying what appears to be half the contents of a good-sized filing cabinet in my cabin luggage, so it goes without saying that I am tormented with the desire to write entirely pointless hobbitslash involving Voyeur!Dom and, possibly,

Comments

[sophrosyne31]

Orli's nether regions... slightly tired condition. OH yeah.

congratulations on the floor and the flat! i remember a story about muriel spark (or could it have been iris murdoch?) who was given an enormous apartment in a borgia palace to live in in rome. she described the sumptuous decorations, the stage-size desk, the frescoes on the ceiling, and noted the inconceivable vastness of the floor, around which from time to time she would take a bracing stroll.

[childeproof]

*laughs*

I do find myself taking unnecessary strolls, though they're more meandering than bracing. I like a writing space in which pacing is possible. Maybe it will have a profound effect on my writing of Lotrips nether regions.

How nice to see you

[andien]

Your post has made me smile at a point where I want to go home and/or cry in no particular order!

Re: How nice to see you

[childeproof]

That bad a day? My sympathies. Can you go home and/or cry? Although I'm not one for weeping in professional environments, I've recently spent a lot of time with a very natural, unfazed weeper, whose point of view is that strong women can own their own tears or something.

Re: How nice to see you

[andien]

Can do neither, have to sit here feeling rather sick until I sort it all out!

[bunnysquee]

you should write a book about buying and moving into your flat a la under the tuscan sun.

that would be after you write about orli's tired nether regions, of course.

[childeproof]

Under the North London Sun?

It could have an advice section which says things like 'EVEN if you're environmentally opposed to car ownership when living in large cities with good public transport, NEVER try to carry an eight-foot step-ladder home on the Underground during rush hour.'

[bunnysquee]

yes! that sort of thing. unfortunate subway incident involving ladders and smelly punters feeling up your behind while you're rendered immobile. also long, languid descriptions of the abysmal deaths of your potted plants ... and instead of cooking, you make do with jars of olives and vietnamese take-away.

incidentally, why do you need an 8' ladder?

[childeproof]

It's one floor of a Victorian house with very high ceilings - standing on a chair, even if we had a chair, doesn't get either of us anywhere near high enough to put in lightbulbs.

[mirabile_dictu]

Congratulations! The only thing I'll ever own is my massive student loan, so I'm both envious and impressed. I also am looking forward to more of Orli's, or any of the Fellowship's, nether regions. Wait, that sounds wrong. Hmm.

[childeproof]

Believe me, it feels very odd. If I think about the debt, I go slightly cross-eyed - I have a basically peasant attitude to money, due to never having had any, and have to continually fight a desire to keep it under the mattress.

[green_grrl]

The psyche craves balance. Having to behave oneself is inevitably going to make the id stomp louder and louder "porn porn porn!" So fiddle about with the boys' nethers already--very important for psychological adjustment. A swing of the mental pendulum, so to speak. *nods professionally* *tries to hide grin*

Congratulations on the new digs! Home ownership is good. Educational--you never know how gross plumbing pipes are until you have to snake them yourself--but good.

[childeproof]

I'm not even going to ask what snaking a pipe is.

Do you hear that?

That is the sound of me and my stomping id refusing to know.

[green_grrl]

*distracts your id with shiny hobbit cocks while your superego gets plumbing DIY books*