Mood Lifters...
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highlyeccentric1. i now have a bicycle chained up just inside the college gate. The riding of a bicycle kept me sane and functional through high school; ergo, it can do the same now. Currently i am the text-book definition of unfit- my knees tried to give out halfway home from central station- but I have no yet been run over by a bus, so all in all it's a plus.
2. My white box of a college room is usually illuminated by a giant collage of free postcards, which, at last count, took two days to put up and four straight hours to take down. Enough is enough. I headed down to the poster sale today, on my bike, and purchased for myself A castle of illusion by Irvine Peacock, and a gothy purple fairy with a crying kitten, who turns out to be the Angel of Death by Victoria Frances. Must have been end-of-line stock, since I can't find it on their website, but I did track it down on the publishing company's site. Blue Dog have more of her stuff, though. I quite like the Kiss, and Lamenting Angel.
Currently the Castle is on the wall by my window, in a part of the wall designated for random-stuff-to-stick-up. It matches my curtains nicely. Angel of Death is over my bed (morbid, but i THOUGHT she was just an emo fairy...1) and I think I'll leave the width of the two beds clear around her. The wall on the other side of the beds has my photo-poem series on it, which I'm getting rather tired of, but it's bright and colourful and I'm used to having it around.
Random David's homemade LolCat pinboard is over my desk, looming over tables of anglo-saxon vocabulary; there's a small wallmounted bookshelf in the corner, and next to that is the Nuns Having Fun calendar, a postcard advertising an exhibition on medieval MSS in Victoria, and my cherished old National Geographic map of Medieval England. Pages from last year's Winnie the Pooh calendar are scattered around the room, and the rest of my Random Stuff collection is yet to go up, but my six framed photos of myself with Important People are in position- the Wife, behind the teapot; the Archangel, on the bookshelf;![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gryphonvere on top of the small bookshelf; Dad, stuck to the side of said shelf; the Little One, on one side of the dressing table, and the Best Mate, on the other- and Miracle Jesus looks down upon it all from his perch above the pinboard. All in all, it's feeling more like home every day.2
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1. She also has very impressive knockers. A much more pleasant way to go out than this, all things considered, although I note the common fondness for cats.
2. What the above several paragraphs add up to is: OMG I HAVE SUCH COOL STUFF. Observe. Do I not have cool stuff?
2. My white box of a college room is usually illuminated by a giant collage of free postcards, which, at last count, took two days to put up and four straight hours to take down. Enough is enough. I headed down to the poster sale today, on my bike, and purchased for myself A castle of illusion by Irvine Peacock, and a gothy purple fairy with a crying kitten, who turns out to be the Angel of Death by Victoria Frances. Must have been end-of-line stock, since I can't find it on their website, but I did track it down on the publishing company's site. Blue Dog have more of her stuff, though. I quite like the Kiss, and Lamenting Angel.
Currently the Castle is on the wall by my window, in a part of the wall designated for random-stuff-to-stick-up. It matches my curtains nicely. Angel of Death is over my bed (morbid, but i THOUGHT she was just an emo fairy...1) and I think I'll leave the width of the two beds clear around her. The wall on the other side of the beds has my photo-poem series on it, which I'm getting rather tired of, but it's bright and colourful and I'm used to having it around.
Random David's homemade LolCat pinboard is over my desk, looming over tables of anglo-saxon vocabulary; there's a small wallmounted bookshelf in the corner, and next to that is the Nuns Having Fun calendar, a postcard advertising an exhibition on medieval MSS in Victoria, and my cherished old National Geographic map of Medieval England. Pages from last year's Winnie the Pooh calendar are scattered around the room, and the rest of my Random Stuff collection is yet to go up, but my six framed photos of myself with Important People are in position- the Wife, behind the teapot; the Archangel, on the bookshelf;
gryphonvere on top of the small bookshelf; Dad, stuck to the side of said shelf; the Little One, on one side of the dressing table, and the Best Mate, on the other- and Miracle Jesus looks down upon it all from his perch above the pinboard. All in all, it's feeling more like home every day.2***
1. She also has very impressive knockers. A much more pleasant way to go out than this, all things considered, although I note the common fondness for cats.
2. What the above several paragraphs add up to is: OMG I HAVE SUCH COOL STUFF. Observe. Do I not have cool stuff?
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Date: 2008-03-07 11:22 am (UTC)Hmm... Blue Dog should be at La Trobe sometime in the next few weeks...
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Date: 2008-03-07 11:44 am (UTC)I got a half-size Japanese one with snow and mountains and tiny people in triangle hats in canoes. I'm going to look it up in a bit and find out who did it and so on. I wanted to get Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa, but then I decided that I don't really want a massive tsunami on my wall, and besides the art ones were expensive.
If they'd had a House MD one, I would have bought it instantly, but they didn't.
Hehe, I got a Life On Mars one for my sister - I think some of the quotes on it will make my mum go "ummm..." and make faces, but that's one of the requirements for my sister's wall decorations, so she'll like it.
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Date: 2008-03-07 11:50 am (UTC)Firefly would be better than Serenity, but there's a cast only one, which would be nearly as good as a Firefly poster.
*gratuitous Simon icon*
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Date: 2008-03-07 12:39 pm (UTC)Been watching Casanova. i suspect whoever told me it was softcore porn was exaggerating. either that or softcore porn is very, very disapointing.
There *IS* David Tennant with his shirt off, though i'm disapointed to find he has so much chest hair. BAH. skinny weedy nerd heroes aren't supposed to have hair!
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Date: 2008-03-08 03:23 am (UTC)I wouldn't know about the hair, considering that most skinny weedy nerd heroes don't seem to take their shirts off on camera that often. Oh yeah, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RpOvzQ7Ju8 is the link for the Spicks and Specks Rocky Horror thing I told you about. Adam Hills in drag! *cackles*
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Date: 2008-03-07 02:55 pm (UTC)B. Hawk
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Date: 2008-03-09 03:17 am (UTC)Also, the gothy purple fairy sounds very cool!
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Date: 2008-03-09 03:40 am (UTC)