so despite the fact that this house has damn near 3000 square feet – about 80% more space than out last house – we’ve been living in a state of suspended junkie squalor since we moved in last summer. see, we’re sick of shitty walmart bookshelves that bow under the weight of our books, have the shelves so far apart that half the wall space is wasted, and generally look like hell. so, we left our books in boxes on the basement floor, awaiting the day that we would build some massive, sturdy, custom-size shelves. and lo, that day did come. and it was good.
i got them loaded up, which freed up all the floor space in the basement, which has allowed us to move a bunch of crap that was laying around upstairs to storage downstairs… and the house almost looks clean! we don’t know what to do with ourselves now. and we have all of a shelf and a half empty – it may not look like this is a huge problem, but you have to factor in that i only permanently keep about 5% of the books that i acquire. i guess it’s about time to load up some more boxes to pass on to my other book-devouring homies, or admit that i have a book problem almost as severe as my stringed instrument acquisition syndrome. it’s almost like playing six degrees to kevin bacon – i pass most of my books on to smitingthewicked and ra-ra (or to nodamnsense, who then passes them to STW and ra-ra), who then pass them on to another of NDS’s siblings, superviking. from there, i expect they get scattered all over the florida panhandle.
i ought to start writing my name and URL in all the books that pass through my hands, just to see where some of them wind up. nerd fun at its finest! it’s kind of like this awesome thing my sister and i did for my college boyfriend – we wrote “SHANE IS A WEENIE” in sharpie on every penny that passed through our hands, just to see if he would ever get one back. it took a few months, but he eventually did. this was when i found out his sense of humor wasn’t quite as awesome as mine.
okay, bitches. we’re off for a weekend of snowboarding and other nonsense with all the homies we have stashed in the denver area for safekeeping. more on that next week. i’m assuming it’s safe to promise that, since the chances of me breaking BOTH arms is pretty slim.
