August 02, 2000
Home Sweet Home, Take 2
This one's going to be image-intensive, you've been warned. Now that my living room, at least, is presentable, I thought I'd post some pictures of my new place. And since I moved to a new area at work yesterday, I thought I'd include a picture of my new home at work too. (Click on the pictures for a larger view.)
Work first. I just moved everything up to this place last night before I came home. Packing it all up involved ditching about two years' worth of accumulated junk. Files no one had asked for in over two years. Papers I'd forgotten I had. Projects that I don't work on anymore. All gone. It was a nice feeling. Then this morning I was faced with unpacking. It wasn't nearly as arduous as I'd feared. So now I'm upstairs rather than downstairs, and I have a real cubicle rather than a half-walled one. I told one of the support managers today: "I don't feel like an animal at the zoo anymore!" People would always stare at us when they went past. I hated it.
So anyway. The picture. I was working on dreaded data entry when I took the picture, hence the small stand to the left of my computer. Above the stand, on the computer itself, is a picture of a dragon drawn on a post-it note by a friend of mine. Above that is my plastic spider. Why, you might rightfully ask, do I have a fake spider in my cubicle when I'm notoriously arachnophobic? I forget where he came from. Jo and I found a pair of them for Halloween decorations, and mine just sort of hung around.
The pictures on the cabinet are various SCA friends as well as me in SCA garb. Also there are a couple of pictures of James, one as Puck and one not. And yes, that is a drawing of Pan in the middle. Jo printed it from the web somewhere and gave it to me when she left the company. Oh, and I have a couple pictures of my favorite kids from back when I taught preschool. I wonder where they all are now? See all the blank space remaining? I need more pictures! Send me pictures of you! I have digital pictures of bunches of folks, but nothing I can print out. So email me for my mailing address so I can show off pictures of all my friends.
Also of note, the fan in the middle right -- it's gonna get damn hot being upstairs. Feh. Behind the fan is a sign that reads "The Computer Goddess of Services Reception". My first supervisor made that for me to laud my computer skills -- they're pretty good, in comparison to the other receptionists at least. Then on the middle left is the #$!@#$ phone, but I don't want to talk about that.
Bleah. Enough about work. Here's my computer setup at home. There's not a lot interesting here, really. Unfortunately, Yahoo! Messenger was up on the screen, and so obscured the yummy picture of Hugh Jackman from X-Men. The books on the top are only a small portion of my roleplaying books, most of them Changeling. I have everything I need right there. Computer, footstool, phone, cup (which probably held iced mint tea), books. I should confess, however, that the uncomfortable wooden chair very often gets replaced by the armchair, which I drag the few feet from the living room. Much more comfy.
Welcome to my postage stamp living room. I like it though. It's a good size for one person. Fitting five folks here in Sunday was an adventure, but we managed. Look! I have an air conditioner! The poster, for the curious, is the complete text of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. I saw it in the bookstore and couldn't resist it. I decorate approximately like a college student. I have several posters stuck to the walls with double sided tape. They're very nice posters, though. The one you didn't see, over my computer, is from the comic Ascension, but I usually just call it the half-naked people poster. Of course, I do have 'real' wall hangings, I just haven't gotten around to hammering in the nails yet.
Last, but not least, the rest of my living room. If you've read this far, you should be canonized. Or committed. In the lower left, you can see the armchair which so often serves as my computer chair. Above the entertainment center is my other 'classy' poster, a Monet. The plant in the corner is fake. I can't keep a real one alive to save my life. The book on the coffeetable is Neverwhere, if memory serves. I love my window. Have I said that before? It's huge, but what I really like are the blinds. If I feel like being a cavewoman, I close them, and no light gets through. The sofa is a sleeper, so if any of y'all ever come visit me, you'll have a place to sleep.
Don't ask me about the bedroom. I promise, I'll start unpacking it this weekend. Really.
Posted by Lisa at August 2, 2000 09:16 PM
