You cannae change the laws of physics!

[charamei]

It would be really helpful at this point if my Doctor Who shelves would spontaneously become bigger on the inside...

(You can't even see the Big Finish CD boxes down below...)

And, and! When I plugged the camera in to get these pictures off, I found the snaps of our pumpkin from last year:



52lb of fire-breathing dragon, ohhh yeah. Drawn by a very talented Jo, and carved by a slightly less talented Andy (he cut himself. "Life is like pumpkin-carving: full of woe and bits falling off.")

NaNo is going well! I took my first round of books back to the ICS library today, and found a Loeb edition of Theophrastus' Characters just sitting on the shelves. I've been looking everywhere for a hard copy - I was starting to think it didn't exist. (It may still be out of print: Amazon doesn't carry it as far as I can tell.) I can now curl up and read about Greek character stereotypes until my eyes bleed XD

Everything else goes slooowly. Bought a pair of professionally tailored trousers. They don't fit. I mean really. I swear, if I ever find another shop that sells any kind of trousering garment in my size, I don't care about the cost - I'll do what I did with my shoes and buy up a lifetime's supply. Why does everyone want to be a size 6 again?

Ran into an old school friend (C) on the train a couple of weeks ago. She seems a lot calmer, although I'm still wary - we always did get along fine when R wasn't around. C's incredibly possessive, and I remember some very cruel things she did to try to break R and myself up. So we'll see. If nothing else, keeping the two friendships separate should be much easier than it was when we were stuck in the same class all day long. The important thing is to not mention the anorexia.

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[lurkingcat]

One of the truly sad facts of life is that there are never enough bookshelves. (I have had to start double-stacking books on the history bookshelf in the hall and I'm slightly worried that the books at the back will start feeling unloved).

That is an awesome collection of Doctor Who things :)

[charamei]

Yeah, you can see the beginnings of double-stacking on the Classics shelf (third from the top on the left) - the space below it is taken up with textbooks and the space above it is traditionally for ring binders (which is why it's huge and, currently, empty), so I've had to start putting the Loebs in front of the Penguins. At least with this arrangement I can still see the start of the author on the Penguin spines, so finding things isn't too much of a nightmare yet.

When I move out, I will suddenly develop two bookshelves XD One is filled with old comics that I'm not taking with me, the other is currently empty but in an awkward place. I'm looking forward to being able to use it again...

...of course, when I move out I'll also have to take the other roomful of books with me. So maybe it's not such a saving after all. I've been clearing them out, but there are still so many left, and so many I'm keeping no matter what, goddamnit.

[lurkingcat]

I went through a big scanning and data entry exercise a few years ago in an attempt to get all of battlehamster's and my books logged into a piece of software called Readerware (the comics still have to fend for themselves). I'm kind of regretting not filling in the field for where each book is shelved because now there's about 3000 of them and it's going to take even longer to go through and log them all than it would have at the time. We keep having clear outs and taking books to the charity shop but then we blink and there's more of the things. I'm starting to think that they multiply when they come into contact with cat fur ;)