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Bah. I had been doing so well. I'd gotten up at a more reasonable hour. I used the stairs instead of the elevator -- since the building I'm in has the slowest elevator in the world that's not legally the science library's elevator that's not such a great sacrifice for my health, but it's something -- and I was whipping through writing up my grade key and stood every shot at getting all the homeworks graded before the day was done. Then the power went out.
I took that as cue to take an early lunch. Afterward and with the power on mysterious people I don't know sent a mass e-mail explaining the power failure was caused by contractors digging, and it just struck me that any organization with a sufficiently large physical campus probably keeps a couple of contractors around digging things just so that any big problems that crop up can be plausibly blamed on the contractors digging. They said they were going to have a full report about how it happened by the end of the day.
I got around to taking the various books that I'd left on flat surfaces, mostly chairs I wasn't using, and started piling them up into pretty good-sized piles on a single chair. I live alone, and have to find ways to make my own fun. I can't say there's a whole lot of purpose to it, except that I've now got three more chairs that I could, in principle, use for sitting on, and I have a stronger argument for buying a bookshelf. I haven't yet found Nothing Like It In The World, though, and it's getting to be odd even for these parts.
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Date: 2006-02-27 06:26 pm (UTC)The downside, of ycourse, is you will be loading your bookshelf in an organized fashion, and it simply won't work. You'll have oversized books which will need to go on their sides on a shelf of their own, and break categories; And as you run close to filling a shelf you'll have inner debates over things like "Should The Gallery Of Regrettable Food really go with my cookbooks, or in general non-fiction?"[*1] But that's the price you'll pay for stable vertical storage.
--Chiaroscuro
[*1] This is a non-trivial decision for me, as the cookbook group is stored on my dresser due to an overfull bookshelf.
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Date: 2006-02-28 03:49 pm (UTC)I have gone window-shopping for bookshelves, and there's a pretty nice-looking one I've seen at Ikea. I just haven't bought it what with that whole problem I have about spending money on the obviously useful things.
Weirdly enough, my non-paperback books tend to fit into a pretty nice continuum of sizes. I can arrange them in a pretty smooth fashion just on size alone. It's choppier bundling them by subject, but if I just want appearance they should go very nicely.
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Date: 2006-03-03 12:13 am (UTC)--Chiaroscuro
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Date: 2006-03-03 02:58 pm (UTC)I settle for pretty near random access, anyway. The times when I need a book so urgently as to not have time to look through a couple shelves are pretty rare. Usually if I need to look up something that fast I can just go online and not find it there.
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Date: 2006-03-02 02:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-02 02:47 pm (UTC)You know, I'd have to hunt down references to be sure, but I think they were even telling versions of that joke in telegraph days.
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Date: 2006-03-02 02:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-03 02:56 pm (UTC)As it happens, there are cases of competing ant species in which one ant colony will deliberately wipe out the other's trails.