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Jan. 8th, 2019 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeOh the dilemmas of wanting more storage space on your phone but not really being able to get a new phone even apart from the cost because the iPhones keep getting shittier and shittier all the time. Bleh. Actually do they even make this model of iPhone anymore or am I stuck with no headphone jack and a phone you can origami?
(The epitome of first world problems. I'm not going to get a new phone, I'm just annoyed at having to delete photos from three years ago, mine or that other people have sent me.)
No, my first problems involving dropping large sums of money on their head are a) building the fucking bookshelves and b) getting my cavities filled and c) getting all the research books I want. C is less of a problem and more of a but whyyyyy don't I have unlimited funds to just buy all the cool books I want to study. Bookshelves first. The hilarinnoying part about looking at bookshelf plans is 90% of them involve starting with "now find the studs" and I'm all "three out of four walls of this room are brick-fill-brick, there are no studs there is only Zhuul" so, um. This is going to be a fun challenge. The fourth walldoesn't exist is a drywall partition put in to enclose off a bathroom, so that surely has studs somewhere in it, right? Right?
I have so many questions about what previous owners of the house have done with the building. So, so many. Not the original builders, mind! They seem to have built a very lovely house. But the previous owners? Who puts wallpaper over perfectly nice pine paneling? Why did you only paint one and an eighth walls red? With non-wall quality paint and no primer? what the actual FUCK?
Arrrgh. Bookshelves! There will be some. And I did go ahead and order one book ahead of the giant stack that I plan on ordering once I have somewhere that isn't the floor to put them. It's an excellent book about Anglo-Saxon England, with good scholarship and a good attitude towards the history and a lot of citations to various disciplines. By Nicholas Higham and Martin Ryan if anyone's curious. It's a good history book for Lifestyles, for Gjenganger, and then I have a couple books out from the library for the Skiffle series, and I think for the rest of that I may depend on JStor articles. We'll see.
In the meantime I need to rustle up some focus for writing work from somewhere. Yesterday I was able to make things up with character notes that I'd had floating around in my head and building off of that, today I just got all my 4TW folders in order and now I need to buckle down and do some vaguely directed work at what I need to get done this month. So that's going to be fun. Getting started will be heavy lifting, that is. Once I find a sense of direction and focus it will be actual fun, not sarcastic fun.
(The epitome of first world problems. I'm not going to get a new phone, I'm just annoyed at having to delete photos from three years ago, mine or that other people have sent me.)
No, my first problems involving dropping large sums of money on their head are a) building the fucking bookshelves and b) getting my cavities filled and c) getting all the research books I want. C is less of a problem and more of a but whyyyyy don't I have unlimited funds to just buy all the cool books I want to study. Bookshelves first. The hilarinnoying part about looking at bookshelf plans is 90% of them involve starting with "now find the studs" and I'm all "three out of four walls of this room are brick-fill-brick, there are no studs there is only Zhuul" so, um. This is going to be a fun challenge. The fourth wall
I have so many questions about what previous owners of the house have done with the building. So, so many. Not the original builders, mind! They seem to have built a very lovely house. But the previous owners? Who puts wallpaper over perfectly nice pine paneling? Why did you only paint one and an eighth walls red? With non-wall quality paint and no primer? what the actual FUCK?
Arrrgh. Bookshelves! There will be some. And I did go ahead and order one book ahead of the giant stack that I plan on ordering once I have somewhere that isn't the floor to put them. It's an excellent book about Anglo-Saxon England, with good scholarship and a good attitude towards the history and a lot of citations to various disciplines. By Nicholas Higham and Martin Ryan if anyone's curious. It's a good history book for Lifestyles, for Gjenganger, and then I have a couple books out from the library for the Skiffle series, and I think for the rest of that I may depend on JStor articles. We'll see.
In the meantime I need to rustle up some focus for writing work from somewhere. Yesterday I was able to make things up with character notes that I'd had floating around in my head and building off of that, today I just got all my 4TW folders in order and now I need to buckle down and do some vaguely directed work at what I need to get done this month. So that's going to be fun. Getting started will be heavy lifting, that is. Once I find a sense of direction and focus it will be actual fun, not sarcastic fun.