Thursday. Stuff.

[mrissa]

1. It seems like the way the pharmacy screwed up timprov's meds is unlikely to result in his head exploding at this time. Still. Did we need that? We did not.

2. Vertigo does not get better when you add hypoglycemic dizziness to it. Just FYI. In case you were wondering. I don't usually need this tattooed on my forehead in mirror-writing. Just occasionally.

3. I find that I am so averse to talking about politics in entries to this lj that I go tight-jawed when I think of even saying so. I just want it over, and I'm being kind of hypervigilant about my boundaries: I read the news, but only when I feel like it (which is at least daily, but still). I do not watch TV news. I do not watch debates. And when political volunteers telephone or show up on my doorstep, I get rid of them as quickly as I can, because this is my house, and I can't control whether there are ads everywhere and endless rehashes of the same soundbites, but I can control my house.

4. timprov says I should believe in the writing of this book because I know how these people go. And I do, I do. I never had to call gaaldine to say that I was definitely unexpectedly pregnant by a man who was about to be the Queen of Air and Darkness's teind. (And in fact, I am neither Janet nor Ang, and neither is gaaldine.) But I know how these conversations work even so. This is a very strangely fluent sensation, made stranger by its similarity to writing Dwarf's Blood Mead and The Mark of the Sea Serpent.

5. You know how I said I wasn't going to write another book at this desk? Apparently I was wrong. But I kind of wish I hadn't been. I just don't see a way to make desk shopping a good thing right now, and the adjustable height desks I found online were Not Suitable for a variety of reasons. So I think further thinky thoughts about it, in hopes that something will come swimming to the surface and I will get to say, "Oh, of course! That!" But I'm not really counting on it.

There is more, but I think that's it for now.

Comments

[rosefox]

Desk: Craigslist? Freecycle?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

See, the problem here is not price. The problem is that I don't know what height desk will be comfortable for me, and I will have to go sit at some to see. I could order a full-price one on the internet if I was willing to guess that it might be the right setup for me, but I'm not really.

[rosefox]

Ahh. So it is more lack of data than lack of available stuff.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And it's the sort of data it's very hard to get other people to get for you.

Sometimes in my family when I was little -- well, more mid-sized, really -- we'd ask each other to perform non-transferable biological functions. "Will you go take a nap for me? I'm tired, but I'm really busy with this." "Hey, can you have an apple for me? I'm hungry, but I don't feel like eating."

[rosefox]

This comes up only rarely here, and only when someone unnecessarily or graphically announces the reason for an intended trip to the smallest room. The invariable reply is "Do one for me while you're in there".

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My poor godfather as a youth was tormented by the fact that he could not excuse himself from a family table without having the aunties ask why, and where he was going. This caused him to tear his hair in a dramatic, amusing, and memorable fashion when I was very small and prone to fits of giggles anyway.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Ikea is now selling tabletops and table legs separately but coordinatedly, kind of like Garanimals (ummm, you may be too young to remember Garanimals. But they were awesome!). One of the leg options is an adjustable-height trestle, here: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20070662

The resulting desk might be vast and awkward, of course. I don't picture you as being the sort who spreads clutter all over her desk (my desk is a shrine to clutter), but if you are, a big table is a good thing.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

If you just need a little desk, PNH got an awesomely useful little desk that is adjustable and it also tilts, and it holds a laptop perfectly. It's weird and made of some goofy IKEA plastic and is probably named Mungo or something, but it costs about fifty bucks or less.

On the downside, it's not got room for books on it. It's just a writing surface or a laptop surface.

Probably you want bigger, though. And with four feet rather than one.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My desk is pretty organized. When there's clutter on my desk, it's there as a trigger for me to deal with that particular thing, since the clutter will drive me crazy if I don't. But I'm keeping this desk for storage and longhand writing and because it's my grandpa's; I'm just getting another one for ergonomics. There's room in here for it.

Maybe if my mom and I go to Ikea to have lunch with my aunt and uncle one of these first weeks, I'll use that opportunity to see if they've got anything.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

You can get people that come round in a van with carpet samples. I'm not sure how desk samples would work, exactly, but there's clearly a gap in the market, there.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, I want a surface for a tower and monitor and mouse and keyboard and printer, and I do think four feet would be wise under the circumstances.

Still, a desk named Mungo is at least worth thinking of if I end up in Ikea with my mom to have lunch with my great-aunt and -uncle.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It'd have to be a much bigger van, I'm thinking.

[ckd]

I remember Garanimals. According to Wikipedia, they were relaunched earlier this year. (Between that and Members Only also relaunching, I'm getting really frightened. What'll be the next memory from my past to come lurching out into the fashion world once again? Legwarmers?)

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I think that happened (briefly) a couple of years ago, sorry! (Can't find much supporting evidence, though - maybe everyone's trying to forget about it)

[aedifica]

I have been known to do this, especially back when I had strange work schedules and might not always have time for a full night's sleep before heading back to work.

[laurel]

They have legwarmers for sale at Target . . . right now!