Packing the Office
I'm not the cheerfulest of campers today. I had attitude yesterday, I've got attitude today, I'm just hoping the campus deli has enough latte to get me through the afternoon, cause I'm making no more tea in my office for weeks, and I favor the sort of tea that takes the enamel off your teeth, so I notice when it's gone.
Today's the last day for packing up my office.
As I mentioned earlier, books are done. I've got the important paperwork out of the way. Squirreled away the fountain pen collection, so it's safe. Carefully kept out all the things I need for the research trip to England, in case I can't really get into my office next week, a tragedy everybody tells me isn't going to happen but I think will, on account of I've met the humans, and mostly they don't get things done when they say they will.
But today. Today is the day I pack up the art. The dragon. The statue of Athena. The two statues of Quan Yin. The several many pictures of Joan of Arc. The framed London newspaper picture of the citizens of Charleston watching the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The giant poster of the Kings and Queens of England. The map of England. The poster of the 1916 Irish Republic proclamation. The copy of the Magna Charta. The Byzantine St. George icon. The reproduction wax seal of Henry II. The many chile pepper lights, which I use to create a sort of arch over much of the sacred art. The Victorian picture of gamekeepers shooting the hell out of a bunch of bunny rabbits, bought in Arundel to commemorate a stroll my mother and I took through the Valley of Death, wherein the gamekeepers of Arundel had poisoned the local bunny population but failed to pick up their bodies. Not very picturesque, really. The Valley of Death, I mean, not the Victorian engraving. The Ginny doll dressed as Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation. The Queen Elizabeth I teapot.
I'm going to pack up all these things, and more, and then walk out of the office and not go back till Tuesday. If indeed all this stuff gets moved into my office on Monday, as has been promised me, I'll take at least some of it back out of the boxes before I go to England. If not, well, I'll see it in late July.
So I'd like to thank Autumn, who linked to this and cheered me up no end.
Today's the last day for packing up my office.
As I mentioned earlier, books are done. I've got the important paperwork out of the way. Squirreled away the fountain pen collection, so it's safe. Carefully kept out all the things I need for the research trip to England, in case I can't really get into my office next week, a tragedy everybody tells me isn't going to happen but I think will, on account of I've met the humans, and mostly they don't get things done when they say they will.
But today. Today is the day I pack up the art. The dragon. The statue of Athena. The two statues of Quan Yin. The several many pictures of Joan of Arc. The framed London newspaper picture of the citizens of Charleston watching the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The giant poster of the Kings and Queens of England. The map of England. The poster of the 1916 Irish Republic proclamation. The copy of the Magna Charta. The Byzantine St. George icon. The reproduction wax seal of Henry II. The many chile pepper lights, which I use to create a sort of arch over much of the sacred art. The Victorian picture of gamekeepers shooting the hell out of a bunch of bunny rabbits, bought in Arundel to commemorate a stroll my mother and I took through the Valley of Death, wherein the gamekeepers of Arundel had poisoned the local bunny population but failed to pick up their bodies. Not very picturesque, really. The Valley of Death, I mean, not the Victorian engraving. The Ginny doll dressed as Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation. The Queen Elizabeth I teapot.
I'm going to pack up all these things, and more, and then walk out of the office and not go back till Tuesday. If indeed all this stuff gets moved into my office on Monday, as has been promised me, I'll take at least some of it back out of the boxes before I go to England. If not, well, I'll see it in late July.
So I'd like to thank Autumn, who linked to this and cheered me up no end.
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