Tuesday, May 24, 2005

   THE ROOM: a wall, a desk, and a very special shelf
If any of you are visiting for the first time in a while, I've been giving a tour of my room for the past few days. So far we've gotten around one wall, with three more to go - so let's go!



This is a close-up of sorts of the wall below my window, above my desk. On the left is my LotR calendar (with TWO holes along the top for hanging, requiring DOUBLE the amount of nails!). Hooked on that one nail is a funky cross I got after my Confirmation all those years ago: it's made up of 3 nails wired together and it's all on a leather tie - I feel it's quite clever in that sense. That circle-bit isn't part of the cross, and is just a hangin' on ring-rosary, which I may have also gotten during Confirmation . . . heh, so yeah, there's a neat little bit for ya: SomeGuy is in fact Catholic though he doesn't really make the effort about it - most sad, I know . . . sorry . . . . . anyway, next to that is my burr-illiant "Procrastinator's Creed" poster; you can find the list online here or there, but I have the poster itself! Nyah hah hah! On the right is my poster from the 1998 "Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival" in Moscow . . . Idaho. Those of you in jazz band, you might know of this one as the biggest jazz festival in North America. Made for a good trip, I felt . . . Brian Bromberg the bassist guy was always there . . .


And here it is, the surface of my gigantic desk which I never use for the purpose intended. I'll start at "12:00" and go around clockwise. My umbrella, an empty HMV bag from my Star Wars/Tegan and Sara/U2 purchase a couple weeks back are at the top there. Just below them are a bunch of Japanese snacks I still have yet to finish off from when I showed that Japanese girl and her family around Vancouver a bit (they were nice). Top-right corner is the now-famous red writing binder of mine along with a cell phone recharger. That brown case is for the digital camera I was using, so it's usually not there . . . ah well. At the bottom-right corner is my wallet (red/brown leather), silver pocket watch ($10), and old cell phone since I washed and dried the new one . . . hehe. You can also see a $10 bill and a quarter . . . the quarter, incidentally, is a US quarter. Go fig. Around the bottom and you can see the Interac receipt from the Star Wars tickets, an open FFVII OST case, and a pack of Gobstoppers which came all the way from Florida . . . and I haven't eaten those yet either, despite the fact they were a Christmas present (sorry 'Beck!!!). Then there's my first CD player bought from nine years ago with saved up allowance, an arc-weld detailed pencil holder (made in grade 8 as well), and a metal "bear" bank which is much smaller than my older wooden one . . . however, this one is not broken. Oh, and that phone is to the main house line - this'll make more sense tomorrow. And yes, "Frisk" is my preferred breath mint.


Next to all of that stuff is a third shelf. Heh, yeah, I liberated a lot of shelves from the hallways after all the moving around (allegedly they were in the way anyway). So here, this shelf doesn't really have a set purpose just yet, though it does have one in particular that's quite important . . . that's in two more pictures, though. Oh, see that Inuyasha plushie in the corner there? That was SUPPOSED to be a birthday present for "The Girl" last September, but then she decided she'd rather have a work term and not go to school . . . heh, so I've kinda been stuck with it since. Ah well, sooner or later . . . so yes, that stuff on the shelf shall be explained soon enough.


Ahh . . . now THIS quirky character with the crooked smile is Ben, my teddy bear. I've had Ben since I was two, making him older than a lot of people here (nineteen, if not older!). Ben's got no articulation, and his butt's curved at just the right angle so that he can't really sit up without something against his back (like the shelf) - I think it goes with the smile, though. Heh, so I found this red strip of cloth, so I tied it around his arm - this was mostly because I was doing the same thing in high school with a red scarf I have (it went with the whole "School survivor" thing - I just wanted to look the part). And yeah, at some point in time I decided that he'd be the perfect person to display whatever medals I've ever won. So around his neck are one gold and two bronze medals from kung-fu tournaments, and one gold medal for the Fermat math competition I did in grade 11 (back when I was good at it). I used to have another gold kung-fu medal, but I sent it far away to someone whom I thought could use it a bit more than me . . . that said . . . . .


Heh, notice the continuity error? So yes, if any of you were to ever send me anything, it'd most likely end up on this shelf: these are my incomplete shrines to "my girls". The continuity error was because I ran around looking for movies or video games which I felt would completely sell whose spots those all were. For the most part I've organised them on the shelves according to timezones/west-east, so yeah. Currently these people are all North Americans, but I am thinking of branching out a bit some time . . . . . I also need some miniature flags for states/provinces or something . . . so yes, one day I shall have wonderful little spots for all my lovely far away friends that can surpass even the Christmas cards! I know, I don't know how that's gonna work either . . . but it will!


Jikai: the rest of the west, and a touch of the south!
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