Owan
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That is cool, Alyosha! Spirals on the floor but they might be hard to read on the ceiling. *replaces some of the paintings with a placks (sp) of quotes* I’ll cover the ceiling with my favorite words. In black calligraphy; which will be marvelously difficult to paint.
They have amazing pictures in Hobby Lobby, BTW. Makes me wish I didn’t have to share a office (turned bedroom) with three siblings. A little wall and floor space would be nice. If I had somewhere to start a collection I’d start now.
But writing in black all over my ceiling will mean I’ll have to change the wall and ceiling color to musty yellow which won’t work with my white carpet. A black carpet might be too depressing. But I could do it anyway, it might work with my black and white checkered furniture and wood
coffee table.
Maybe wood floors? I do prefer wood over carpet for a library…
*has really gaudy tastes* Maybe I should expand a little and have two living rooms so people won’t need to see someone after they visit.
[edit]A skylight sounds nice but would get in the way of my writing… For a desk I want one of those really huge and expensive ones with dozens and dozens of cubby holes. But it will go in my bedroom and match my really expensive bed with a headboard made of cubby holes and built in underbed storage. *wiggles eyebrows*
I don’t think I want my books to have a special room to themselves, I want to live with them and be around them. I think I want to keep them in the living room and dust them on every third Saturday.
I don’t think I need a huge area for them either, only large enough to house my favorites. Libraries are for learning whether or not they’re my favorites.When I imagine my future house I generally imagine it to look like my Grandmother’s old apartment. A cracker box of a thing, even though I love spiral staircases I don’t really want anything very large because the cleaning and maintenance might be a little much for one person. (Yes, I’m odd enough to include realities like dustballs and bathrooms in my plans and dreams.) The living room is large with light colored walls and a looseyourtoes white carpet. No TV because the GMC is too expense and whenever I imagine myself with a TV I’m sprawled in a recliner oposite it wasting time. And I can’t afford to waste time.
Therefore without a TV I’ll have three walls worth of space, I’ll start my collection on the wall behind the couch. Floor to ceiling woodshelves broken up with pictures (like a black and white painting of a sewer entrance) and under the pictures low tables/stands for holding vases and nicknacks (like scupltures of the Eiffle Tower, &c. One of the stands will have to hold a radio/CD player and one of the spaces between shelves will hold a CD rack). In the middle of the room I’ll have a large coffee table for holding the currently readings and the chocolate and the pencils and paper. Also a couch, recliner, &c.And I’ll have a fantastic collection of bookends. If the world has enough interesting/pretty ones to offer me, that is.
[edit]And the light fixture will not be a chandelier, infact, I think I want a collection of pretty, intricate standing lamps instead.
I…haven’t memorized my library card number. I don’t actually even have a library card. Yes! A inhouse library is esential, large windows, lots of pillows and fluffy chairs, I’m thinking My Fair Lady library not Beauty and the Beast library.
*nods* I’m naming my children that way too. Or atleast strange names. Just need to marry the right guy.
Some possibles: Taylaminkadot, Istra, Jonathan, etc.Quotes in conversations…oi.
–You sleep with them.
–You mumble passages in your sleep.
–When you wake up you can relate the dream you had to some book.
–You always take a book with you when you go out, regardless of were your going and whether or not you’ll have time to read it.
–You have no life and no hobby except reading.
–Conversations seem to end up on the topic of books.
–The librarian knows your name and favorite genre.
–They say you’re the best thing that happened to them.
–The library sales have record breaking sales every year…because of you.
–When you get a little money you spend it on books. Your health, wealth, and well fair aren’t very important.
–When you have a book detector instead of a metal detector.
–You can laugh in the face of the book addicts you read about.
–When you read.
–You read the “Book Recommendations” in the back of books and find that you’ve areasy read half the books listed.
–When You can’t navigate your room any more.
–When you know who Harriet Beecher Stowe, Tom Sawyer, Hans Christian Anderson, and H. G. Wells are and which books they wrote.
–When you ace tests asking who’s more real, Sherlock Holmes or Winston Churchill. (Real test, most English kids think Winston Churchill was made up for a book.)
&c.
*places dibs on the title “The One Who Is Thursday” before Alyosha does*
Which is deffinitely considered counting unhatched chickens. You can take the title, “She Who Shall Not Be Named Anything That Is Not Russian”, Alyosha.
Hopefully we’re allowed titles that have nothing to do with our accomplishment.
*doesn’t like that idea*
We’d all be frazzled from stress by the end of the RAT and then we’ll die of a heart attack as soon as we see everyone elses score! Not a good idea. Especially because we won’t have time before our funerals to remove the purple bags from underneath our eyes and we’ll have cramped fingers from turning pages for ever and ever and ever! It’ll make our ghosts horribly grumpy, so grumpy that chocolate and poetry will not please them. And therefore it will be our fault that the boards end up empty and rotting and haunted.
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Reading Groups could probably also go in the Games section…
You could make it a Offical No Prize Read-Off, you know.
On NWeb the prize for the various art contests is a user tagline. A few words under their avatar. And second and third place winners get “bragging rights” so you can talk about your winnings in your signature.
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