when the lights go down in the city

I Love Desk

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:35:55 -0800

It's been about three months since I moved to Austin and started working from home. In the move, I gave up my office desk, obviously, and all of the furniture in my apartment, which wasn't worth shipping cross-country. I also decided I didn't really have room for a desk in my new house either. It's not that I didn't want a desk. My new place has very little storage space, so I had to opt for some drawers and shelves and felt there wasn't enough room for a desk.

Then I realized: I need a desk. As much as I love to write, I can't go without one. There's something about dedicating a clear space to my laptop (or paper), coffee, glasses, pens, candle, tchotchkes, scraps of inspiration; it creates a little temple, a spiritual center of sorts. I know it's just a desk. But it's important to me.

So I set out last weekend to build the smallest and cheapest office possible, and here it is!

My tiny desk

I bought the desk for $25 at Ikea and the chair was $15. I opted for Christmas lights to give a nice glow and because a lamp would take up too much space. I put up four squares of corkboard and loaded them with items from my old desks. I have just enough room for my beverages, notebooks, pens, glasses and breakfast, lunch or dinner.

I am so much happier now. Desk, I love you.

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There's A Lot Of <3 In This Room

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:21:11 -0800

There sure is a lot of love bubbling up amongst my friends, whether they're dressing up as spouses, matchmaking their infants or trading secret love messages across the internets. It's lovely to have all this love flying around.

This one* goes out to all the lovers:

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

* I couldn't find the Tom Jones version.

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Main Squeezes

nobody@vox.com(Krissy) — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:05:30 -0700

After the sixth person brought up my off-handed use of the phrase 'main squeeze' a few entries back, I realized that this is interesting subject matter to some of my readers!

So I thought I would share just a partial list of some other main squeezes in my life:

If you're not in this list, it doesn't mean I don't love you too. It probably just means I haven't added a photo of you to my blog yet.

Odds & sods

Did you know that iterate and reiterate have the same definition? Same goes for unravel and ravel.

The phrase "The revolution will not be televised" has been randomly stuck in my head for the past day. Take a moment to read the poem where the phrase comes from, it's well worth the time.

I'm seven books deep into my quest to read 25 books in 2007. I'm adding them all to this collection:

25 Books in 2007

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