On "Spring" cleaning and rabid, packrat tendencies...

[gnine]

So, a little while back, Neechan and I decided to engage in some Spring cleaning. (Okay, so it was in July, and as such, not so much "Spring" as good-GOD-remind-me-*why*-I-live-in-Kyoto as-we-sit-here-boiling-in-our-own-juices "Summer" cleaning, but I digress...)

Anyways, as part of said cleaning, we decided to (finally) dispose of the almost two-year backlog of weekly and/or monthly manga magazines we had lying about, collecting dust and taking up much needed space, space that could be used for more important things like...err...more books. Um, did I mention we lose?

As we sorted through the comics, stacks piled high around us (for those who've never been to Japan, and/or are unfamiliar with the likes of Shounen Jump, etc. these things are in no way SMALL. The *thinnest* is more than an inch thick), we were reminded of something our mom used to say all the time when we were kids (often accompanied by a head shake of despair as she glanced about our bedroom, searching for a place to walk): that one day, when we had adult incomes and our own place to live, we'd have no need to buy furniture, for we could simply construct all necessary pieces out of our vast collection of books.









Course, really, we're just following the long standing family tradition/rule, which states we will always have enough books to fill one more bookcase than we actually own. (Or, in fact, three or four bookcases, cause let's face it, tiny, low-ceilinged, tatami-floored Japanese apartments are really not made for appropriate-sized bookcases :-p)

Comments

[naye]

You people are crazy. CRAZY!! (Wow, good thing I moved away from Japan after a year, or that would totally have been my apartment. *g*)

[gnine.livejournal.com]

...These go all the way back though, from when we'd first moved into the apartment. So...um...err...okay, not much of an excuse, but. Well, they're gone now? And we do have lots of pretty One Piece, Get Backers and other color spreads, so, um, win?

[sholio]

I'd been feeling like a person of no willpower lately, what with all the books and comics and manga everywhere (including more than a few I haven't read) and the new giant order on the way from Amazon. I feel less dorky now. *g*

[gnine.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeah, the power to resist is not something I've been known for. Ever. Never ever. Um, oops?

Though, one point in our defense, most of those volumes cost under $3, and were two years in the making, so um...er... that maybe makes it a bit better? Course, the pictures don't show the stacks and stacks of manga we WEREN'T throwing away...Not to mention all the English books we've purchased from Amazon.jp since coming here...Oh, moving back to the States is gonna be *ever* so much fun :-p

[sholio]

LOL. I feel your pain -- well, I guess not entirely, since I haven't had to deal with moving overseas, but the Alaska-to-Illinois move (and the reverse three years later) was bad enough. At least the moves helped knock down my collection somewhat. Now that I've found a more-or-less permanent place to live, the books are piling up EVERYWHERE.

(p.s. Who am I looking at in the pictures?)

[gnine.livejournal.com]

LOL, Neechan was just speculating if you'd know which of us was which, realizing you'd probably never seen pics.

Me in the top one, neechan in the bottom one.

[sholio]

Hee! That's actually ... pretty much the opposite of what I'd guessed when I first looked at them. (Though part of that, I imagine, was simply leading myself astray by guessing at first that since you were the one posting the entry, you were also the one holding the camera.)

[crashtestskater.livejournal.com]

Ha Ha, thanks for the laugh. Always apreciated. Um...

Hon. Darling. Dearest. Can you sent me a link to dramatic episodes com you were telling me about. I couldn't find it. Yes, I suck, I know. I also haven't figured out about deluge. I've downloaded and instaled macports but I can't find it on my computer or have figured out how to use it. Sigh. My brain is feeling a little befudled. I'm not expecting you to solve all my problems but I need to vent my frustrations.

I say again, sigh.

[gnine.livejournal.com]

For the dramatic eps, go here.

And with deluge, once you have it installed, it should just open automatically when you click on a bittorrent link, at such sites as mininova.org or such.

*huggles*