A list of mishmash

[tarigwaemir]

Lowell House on the Feast of St. Pascal Baylon

1. Granado Espada pre-open beta! Self, please do not install client until after your final on Saturday.

2. team7 is starting an online magazine for themed literary reviews: Maybe Sparrow (LiveJournal community at maybesparrows). Issue 1 is "Metafiction" with a rather spectacular reading list (sign up here), and issue 2 is "Diana Wynne Jones" (sign up here).

3. Tin also asked for photos of our workspaces, which reminded me of that neat meme that ambientlight did a while ago.

Take a photo of your desk, as-is (no cleaning up/prettying allowed! The idea is to see what it really looks like), and post it twice on your LJ, the second version annotated.





My desk is usually not so disorganized, but I thought I should take a photo of it in a more chaotic stage since it shows more personality than its usual bare surface mode.

I like looking at photos of people's bookshelves myself. One of my favorite Peter Wimsey moments is when he looks at Cathcart's bookshelf as a reflection of the man's character. (Although do let me add that the only reason Margaret Drabble's The Red Queen is sitting on the top shelf is because I found the book at a sale and thought it would be interesting. Alas, it drove me up the wall by the tenth page. -_-)

4. Pidgin (the new name for Gaim) is awesome and just may revolutionize my IM habits. I was afraid at first that it didn't have CJK support, but actually, all you have to do is change the GTK+ theme to anything other than the default Windows setting.

5. Please shake me out of my complacence, and tell me to study for my finals. Or alternatively, finish my imaginarybeasts story. ::pulls at hair::

Yours &c.

Comments

[ldmoonflower.livejournal.com]

What's Asian popcorn?

[troisroyaumes]

Popped corn kernels, very bland and unsalted. Looks different from regular popcorn though. They sell them in Asian supermarkets; you've probably seen them.

[room101.livejournal.com]

*itches to download Pidgin* Cannot download in the office, cannot download in the office, cannot - *flails*

Go study, yes, yes?

[troisroyaumes]

It's the neatest thing ever. XD

Hai~! ::salutes:: (By the way, two thumbs up to your icon.)

[room101.livejournal.com]

*downloading* Oh God, this means I'll be spending even more time on chat! *laughs*

(Personally I want to try Granado Espada - a friend did a test for it and it was shiny *_*)

[thisresonance.livejournal.com]

I was thinkin' of doing something like that. Should've known there'd be a meme like that going around.

I'm going to have to wait until daylight to post mine. Unless my friends list wants to see nothing but a glowy computer screen. :P

I, too, was wondering about the Asian popcorn. It's funny that you call your desk disorganized. It looks very confortable actually. All that stuff in easy reaching distance!

[troisroyaumes]

Yes, I'm lazy so I like having everything within reach. ^_^

I'm a bit of a neurotic neat freak, so the state of my desk is irritating me at the moment, but not enough for me to actually start cleaning it up. (I give it about a couple of more days before I snap.)

[thisresonance.livejournal.com]

I'm a neat freak when it comes to my computer desk. Mostly it's out of a desire to keep my ninja kitties from making a mess. At the moment I have a tower of precariously stacked books that I'm just waiting for a cat to knock over or try to sit on.

I just noticed that you have the four volume set of Ro3K. Rawk! Did you buy it online? I got mine from Amazon, but it was on the expensive side. Not that I regret buying it...

[troisroyaumes]

Yup, I got it from an Amazon Marketplace seller. I actually bought boxed sets of Outlaws of the Marsh, Journey to the West and Dream of the Red Chamber at the same time and pretended they were textbooks to get one of my scholarships to cover the costs, but don't tell anyone that.

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

Your desk is awesome!!
I should post a picture of mine.

[troisroyaumes]

Yes, please do! ^_^

[issen4.livejournal.com]

Your desk is *neat*. Well, compared to mine, which has stacks of books and manga (I have to move them to the floor when I write), and mail, and puddles of knitting.

I should post a picture of mine.

[troisroyaumes]

Ooh, now I want to see a picture of your desk. ^_^

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

that red telephone is rather charming, in a not-at-all-sleek-and-modern sort of way. *_*

[troisroyaumes]

Haha, I would love to take credit for it, but it's the red telephone that comes with every dorm suite. I do like it though. ^_^

[meril.livejournal.com]

An international crisis with every phone call~!
...sorry, sorry.

[meril.livejournal.com]

Disorganized? No, just full of homework.

Now, if you see my (work) desk, you'll see disorganized. If I can find the USB cable for the camera.

[troisroyaumes]

Ooh, I'd like to see. A picture of a messy desk is always more interesting, in my opinion.

[jaebi-lit.livejournal.com]

Seeing your desk reminds me again why I like living off campus--my desk is perpetually crowded with books and drafts and articles when I write papers, and my dorm desk was never big enough to contain all the chaos.

Mmm, ggangnaegi!

bookshelf as a reflection of the man's character.

Yes! Bookshelves are awesome. Although mine got kind of boring in college, because they were mostly filled with school material. I guess it's still an accurate reflection? No life outside of school, that is. :P

[troisroyaumes]

Am munching on 강냉이 right now, in fact! ^_^

Yes, dorm desks are generally too small. I plan on investing in a nice big table when I get my own apartment.

I always have non-textbooks on my bookshelves, but of course, actually getting around to reading them is an entirely different matter. ::sighs::

[jaebi-lit.livejournal.com]

Yum, yum.

My current desk is a 3' x 5' work table. No drawers, no frills, just (almost) enough wide, flat space for me to work. I'm going to miss it when I move.

So true. I didn't start reading my non-textbook books until I finished my thesis, although I had a whole bookcase full of them.

[lawnmower-elf.livejournal.com]

OMG Granado Espada! **squee**

Okay, must go to final now.