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Jan. 23rd, 2012 04:11 pmI braved the darkness that is my storeroom just now. I'm trying to make space in my unit and shrink my possessions into a reasonable quantity (without actually getting rid of books - I need my books!), and I wasn't focused on my research anyway, so I took a spiderweb break. It wasn't that dark, to be honest, but it really had a lot of webs. And books. And papers.
I have extracted two boxes and a bag for re-use in other matters, rearranged things a bit and found some early drafts of things that need to go with the other early drafts of things. Another two dozen visits of this sort and the whole storeroom will be tidy and beautiful. Or maybe only one dozen. After all, the floor is already visible.
I need to bring the boxes and bags inside one by one and sort them. The papers will be a lot of work and I'll be much less worried about space when that's done. The problem is, I don't want to throw things out. In an old suitcase are all my overseas living papers - letters and essays and strangenesses. In a box is the foundation of Women's History Month in Australia, alongside a bunch of work against racism. There's history research that never quite went anywhere, and stories that were published so long ago that no-one even knows they existed.
It will be rather tough to throw them all out. Or even to throw half of them out. I might just leave the cobwebs to grow a bit longer...
PS If anyone who lives within reasonable distance has a VHS player and would like all my old VHS tapes (some of which have only been watched once) they're yours. All you have to do is collect them and not quibble about titles. (I don't want to get rid of one or two, I want to get rid of them all.) For $50 I'll even throw in the VHS player! (It's perfectly operational, but doesn't like my television.)
I have extracted two boxes and a bag for re-use in other matters, rearranged things a bit and found some early drafts of things that need to go with the other early drafts of things. Another two dozen visits of this sort and the whole storeroom will be tidy and beautiful. Or maybe only one dozen. After all, the floor is already visible.
I need to bring the boxes and bags inside one by one and sort them. The papers will be a lot of work and I'll be much less worried about space when that's done. The problem is, I don't want to throw things out. In an old suitcase are all my overseas living papers - letters and essays and strangenesses. In a box is the foundation of Women's History Month in Australia, alongside a bunch of work against racism. There's history research that never quite went anywhere, and stories that were published so long ago that no-one even knows they existed.
It will be rather tough to throw them all out. Or even to throw half of them out. I might just leave the cobwebs to grow a bit longer...
PS If anyone who lives within reasonable distance has a VHS player and would like all my old VHS tapes (some of which have only been watched once) they're yours. All you have to do is collect them and not quibble about titles. (I don't want to get rid of one or two, I want to get rid of them all.) For $50 I'll even throw in the VHS player! (It's perfectly operational, but doesn't like my television.)