felis_ultharus

So the work on my room finally progressed to the point where I couldset up the bed Matt bought me as a birthday present. It's a beautiful, black metal-frame bed, the nicest one I've owned.

Actually, this is the first room I've ever had where I feel I can decorate -- most of my rooms have been places to store stuff, and any attempts at decoration were more like damage control than anything else. I spent most of my week sanding and then staining shelves to match drapes.

These Verdun Human Filing Cabinets (my name for these stacked duplexes) are really nice inside, though always oddly proportioned. My room is the same width as my last two rooms, but at least twice the length. Meanwhile, the living room is more of a bulge in the corridor between the front door corridor and the kitchen. The kitchen is huge, and the bathroom is tiny.

Still, it's an old place with a lot of character. New apartments in Montreal seem to be airless, soulless, unhappy places with stained rugs that emit a swampy miasma of ten years' worth of smells. And hardwood floors are a definite plus to anyone with cats.

Moving em_fish yesterday went very smoothly. Next Saturday we get her big furniture. Next Sunday, there shall be a game. And next Friday, those in town who can do evenings might want to come to a drag show fundraiser for the NDP, which montrealais has worked very hard on :)

So, my room is gradually taking on the pre-move, zero-decoration-and-furniture allure of a crack addict's appartment. Except, of course, the computer wouldn't last two minutes in a crack addict's apartment.

(I have the computer propped up on boxes -- it reminds me vaguely of tireless car on cinderblocks.)

No surprises that virtually everything I own is in book form. Even factoring in the furniture I'm taking with me, and the clothes, about 75% or 80% of what I own seems to be books (and we're talking volume, not number, here). And that's only if I don't include notebooks, old journals, scrapbooks, etc.

On a D&D note, it looks like we can have it here after all -- if you guys don't mind all the boxes, that is :)