Gaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[ksmith]

I shouldn't be cleaning my office on Christmas Eve, but I am. I tried working in here yesterday, and rammed into the pile of books and not-yet-filed stuff every time I spun my chair to the right.

It's the little things that drive one to the snapping point.

Granted, my office is a converted third bedroom, about 72 square feet. Larger than my day job cube, but you know, bookcases. And stuff was piled on the floor in such a way that I couldn't get to the supply closet. So, triage. A cardboard box was resurrected from the basement, and the 2006 files and unfiled receipts piled within, then pushed beneath the desk in a place where my feet won't hit it. Unshelved books were exiled to the basement bookshelves. I can now spin my chair with impunity, and the floor is cleared. True filing and organization will have to wait until after the completion of ENDGAME, but at least the dogs can come in here without stepping on phone bills and tipping over the stacks of books.

The house of my dreams...would be all office, with built-in bookcases filling three walls and the fourth opening out onto the sloping lawns and the separate gazebo office where I would work on balmy days. Yeah, I'd have a bath and a kitchenette somewhere because, you know, food and hygiene. Not too worried about having room to entertain friends. I mean, I have friends...last time I checked...but you know, bookcases. And file cabinets.

I've heard rumors that there are people who do not understand bookcases and do not see them as a selling point in a home. Are any of these people running this country at present, because if they are it would explain a hell of a lot.

Comments

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

I've found that a sleeping bag fits neatly between stacks...and if you can't sleep comfortably surrounded by books like that, probably you should be staying in a hotel anyway.

Of course, I have an unreasoning fondness for dungeon style stacks with glass floors/ceilings, so I'd have to have provision for that, as well as cast iron spiral staircases.

After I install one more shelving unit, I'll actually have most of a floor here...very weird.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

When my husband replaced the electric baseboard heaters in our house with a central heating plant, I was almost more excited to have new walls on which to put book cases than to have central heat.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I know that when we sold our last place, the agent told us to put (unattached) bookcases into storage. Supposedly bookcases frighten people.

Our lovely custom-made, built-in floor-to-ceiling bookcase near the kitchen was described as a "curio display case".

Le sigh.

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

I like art, the only problem is that I need the wall space for bookcases.

Anyone who doesn't grok the need for bookcases on every potential surface probably shouldn't be invited over anyway.

(Note to self: if I'm ever actually in the market for a house, I must impress upon the realtor that I need a place with tons of built-in bookcases.)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

YESYESYES about bookcases!!!!! And all the rest, too.

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

The house of my dreams...would be all office, with built-in bookcases

I always wanted one of those libraries with the floor-to-ceiling shelves and a sliding ladder or three.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

And that weird area of upper level shelves behind a balcony rail, with that little door that leads who-knows-where.

Yes, I know. L-space.

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

Oooh, definitely!!

I enjoy cleaning my office, actually. Paper piles up and it seems as though the act of clearing it helps me attack the next writing job with more clarity.