Moving is bad
Jul. 5th, 2004 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhondacrockettEspecially temporary only-going-to-be-here-two-months moving. A lot of stuff is still packed, to be moved to my university accommodation in September. The kitchen needs an extractor fan and more cupboards. We're still puzzling over how the showers work. There's a stale smell in the bathroom, and downstairs shower/toilet. I'm not sure what belongs to whom, because the people who will be living in it have left a lot of their stuff about. We only got oil this afternoon. I need to get a TV licence. We can't receive Channel 5. And it feels odd, living in such a large house with so many stairs and blank cream walls.
But I'm settling in. I'd become used to Ulsterville, which was much more homely than rental properties for students usually are.
My bedroom is absolutely enormous! I keep thinking that there must be a better way to make use of this space, and trying to re-imagine the layout. That's what comes of watching too many property shows.
Between the trauma of differentiation and the furor of moving, my PhD work has been abandoned, and instead I have been devouring novels. One nearly every day, which means I'm reading till 2, 3 o'clock in the morning, because I am stupid and can't make myself stop. Let's see, I've read:
Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde (only kind of half-counts because I'd started it a while ago and was about half-way through)
Bitten; Stolen; Dime Store Magic - Kelley Armstrong
The Street Lawyer - John Grisham (my first Grisham! Probably my only Grisham; I really enjoyed it but it didn't make me interested in the rest of his stuff)
So that's five, four and a half books since *squints* last Sunday. Taking into account that I was moving on Tuesday and Wednesday, went out with Philip on Thursday, and was home from Friday till yesterday afternoon... that leaves me Sunday, Monday and last night. Ok, so I think I also read on Tuesday during the day, and might have finished off Dime Store Magic on Wednesday night, but that's still intensive reading.
Now if only I could read my PhD stuff as easily...
Where are you on the highway of life?
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But I'm settling in. I'd become used to Ulsterville, which was much more homely than rental properties for students usually are.
My bedroom is absolutely enormous! I keep thinking that there must be a better way to make use of this space, and trying to re-imagine the layout. That's what comes of watching too many property shows.
Between the trauma of differentiation and the furor of moving, my PhD work has been abandoned, and instead I have been devouring novels. One nearly every day, which means I'm reading till 2, 3 o'clock in the morning, because I am stupid and can't make myself stop. Let's see, I've read:
Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde (only kind of half-counts because I'd started it a while ago and was about half-way through)
Bitten; Stolen; Dime Store Magic - Kelley Armstrong
The Street Lawyer - John Grisham (my first Grisham! Probably my only Grisham; I really enjoyed it but it didn't make me interested in the rest of his stuff)
So that's five, four and a half books since *squints* last Sunday. Taking into account that I was moving on Tuesday and Wednesday, went out with Philip on Thursday, and was home from Friday till yesterday afternoon... that leaves me Sunday, Monday and last night. Ok, so I think I also read on Tuesday during the day, and might have finished off Dime Store Magic on Wednesday night, but that's still intensive reading.
Now if only I could read my PhD stuff as easily...
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