Things I do to keep sane

[jmtorres]

You may or may not have noticed, I've been posting to dw a lot less lately. I'm probably not going to go back to posting daily grumbles and random thoughts to dw, and if that was something you were interested in, or if we're friends enough that you'd want to keep up with me day-to-day, a lot of that kind of stuff is getting dumped into decontextual now. At first it was just going to be a "random shit people say" amusement ground, which is why it got named Out of Context Theatre, but then I started following some fannish accounts and I got weirdly social what the hell ever: I'm decontextual on twitter. Over here on dreamwidth I will probably be posting more essay-like content, things that have been percolating a while, as well as fanfiction and vids. If I ever finish any ever again.

Right, so that was online housekeeping. Moving on. Disjointed thoughts to follow.

Working was fucking nuts (redacted)

On Thursday I am flying out for the long weekend to see echan and jetpack_monkey (and diannelamerc and lizbetann). If there is anyone in the LA area who would like to meet up with me and/or them while I'm visiting, HOLLA.

I have this I don't even know, it might actually be a disorder, but apparently I am more likely to feel things are right with the world if I move all my crap around every year or so (if I'm not actually moving from one house to another). At present I'm considering essentially switching the TV/guest room and my bedroom--because my bedroom is bigger, and I want to turn the TV room into the VIDDING ROOM, and have my desk and vidding computer in there as well as the fiendishly clever ikea sofa bed the TV. While it would make it difficult to vid from bed, it would make vidding a) potentially more social, as covidders could hang out and clip from DVD or betas could hang out and watch random crap until needed but, like, in the same room and b) more likely to happen from some members of the House of Torres who don't like climbing over my endless piles of laundry to get to my vidding computer.

I measured everything and found a decent free designer online, floorplanner.com, and then took some screenshots:



Current layout of the rooms in question:





I figure there's not many ways I'd choose to lay things out with the TV room as my new bedroom--the bed would HAVE to go against the interior wall of the house, for reasons of OMG THE SUMMER IN VALLEY OF HELL:



(I have high hopes that in moving everything around I will also magically unpack everything, but I am trying to be realistic here a little.) I was also considering buying a Narniawardrobe at IKEA to stick oh, probably, upper right, to maybe alleviate the endless piles of laundry and because the closet in that room is smaller, but for reasons I'll touch on later it may not be in my best interest to acquire more furniture.

I've come up with a few different ways to put together the new VIDDING ROOM. My favorite is this one:



However, it would require taking my desk apart a LOT and reassembling it backwards. I could, with less sturm und drang, do it this way:



This would also put spectators more over the vidder's shoulder. Social yay, don't bug me when I'm working woe? It shouldn't interfere for sightlines to the main TV, but it might for the VHS unit I keep around just in case.

Okay, but then there's another issue. It's possible we'll be getting a third person moving in, in like, six months, in which case I would have to give up one of these rooms (the smaller one, obvs, first come first serve?). I figure if I put the VHS unit and my bed in storage (the fiendishly clever ikea sofa bed is perfectly comfortable and larger than my bed, which means I could more easily have company) I could fit everything else in my bed/vidding room like so:



in preparation for which I might set up the intermediate vidding room like so:



There are other options I could do with the L-shaped desk actually pointed into a corner that would open up more central space, but I actually want it out, so you can get to shelves on both sides. I'm not too fussed about taking the desk all the way apart to flip which side its L is on, since I'm going to have to take it halfway apart to move it at all, so I think the main question is--can I do it my favorite layout, or should I be working in preparation for the guest room becoming a third resident's room? So I should probably nail down jecook about that before I start hauling crap around.

Thoughts, House of Torres?



My to-do list is full of boring, grown-up things like endless piles of laundry and car maintenance and shoes. My plotbunny list lately is all:

--Harry Dresden is Not a Lesbian (Harry always-a-woman AU, and no, she's not a lesbian, she's functionally bi but so in denial that she keeps yelling at people she's NOT A LESBIAN, despite the thing with Elaine and the thing with Lea and the thing with Murphy--meanwhile, trufax, Susan turned out to be straight, go figure--and then Molly tries to make everyone's head explode by announcing she's decided she's a lesbian like Harry: Charity is all "lesbian whatever COULD YOU CHOOSE A WORSE ROLE MODEL JFC" and Harry is all "but... I'm... not a lesbian! WTF!")
--WHERE ARE ALL MY PEPPERBOT NOTES, DAMN IT THIS NEEDS MORE PLOT, hahaha Steve is all "cool! the future is awesome! who else is a robot?"
--These Mistress Pepper notes are surprisingly complete, hahaha Steve is SO confused by them switching between Mr. Stark and Miss Potts and Tony and Pepper, because it's a scene/not scene thing that they're not copping to
--somewhere in the corner, Ivan is hiding from me all smug. I'll get you, my pretty.