this side of the blue

i like that this blog has become a place i go to when i want to regroup my thoughts; it may not be organized and utilized, but at least it's helpful in some small way.

i caught a cold over the weekend, so i've been cooped up in my room the past few days. i think i'm over the worst though (i think...). i hope i wake up tomorrow feeling better and ready. i have several things i need to take care of this week. it's my last week before school starts, and i want to start out the semester healthy and focused.

to-do by the weekend:

-finish inspired zine.
-finish sewing together socktopus for james' birthday.
-bake cookies for james' birthday package.
-wrap all the presents; have everything ready by friday at the latest.
-buy all my books for next semester.

i felt a little better tonight, so i straightened my room and did some laundry. threw away some stuff, regrouped other things so i feel a little better. i've decided to name my tall oak bookshelf the zine factory, even though it's really not. i keep all my paper there, but all my zine supplies - glue, scrap paper i've found and hoarded, newspaper clippings, stationary, old calendars, old letters etc etc etc - is in a white laundry basket under the chair in the corner of my room. i just don't have the room for it all, so needless to say, zine-making always gets really messy and usually kind of confusing if i don't clear a great big space beforehand. i need a fucking desk in here, but i have no room. maybe if i got rid of the dresser... but then, where would i store all my socks/underwear? i could hang up all my pants, i s'pose, and maybe get something small and more practical for the undergarments? they don't take up that much room, afterall. even still though, getting rid of the dresser wouldn't free up that much extra room. my dresser isn't even that big, and it'd be useless having a desk anyway if i didn't have a desk chair so i could actually, y'know, work at it. well, maybe i could at least get some kind of storage desk to organize all my supplies, even if i couldn't use it like a real desk. someday, someday.

it's nearly midnight, and seeing as i've been ill, i should already be in bed. today i took a sick day but i fully intend on going in tomorrow, as long as i don't feel worse! but i'm going to wait until the laundry is done. it always makes me feel better when i know what i'm wearing in the morning...