Writer's Block: Open book test
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So, the answer right now would be very VERY funny...because I have three empty bookshelves in my main living room area, hundreds of books on the floor in bookshelf order next to my bed, as well as four or five boxes of books and a closet full of books stacked about a foot high. (I bulged a disk while moving...so actually putting books on the shelves was out. Besides, I need at least two more bookshelves to put them all up...)
This might give someone a very accurate impression of me, though, because I live a fairly higgledy-piggledy life.
On closer inspection, they might notice that I am sort of obsessive compulsive along with being a mess, though. It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. My books are all arranged by genre (as defined by me. I worked in a library for six years, and I could do dewey or LC numbering, but I don't really care to.) and they are carefully arranged (not as carefully on the floor as they will be on the shelf...but close enough) in order. For example, my poetry, my American lit, my British lit minus Lewis and Tolkien (who have a whole shelf to themselves! Woot!) are all in chronological order. I also have one shelf over my computer desk with "pretty" books and important large reference books, and another with language books--dictionaries, Greek/Latin texts, a Sanscrit textbook, random stuff like a teach yourself Welsh or Swedish...neither of which I have used, El Senor de los Anillos, etc.
I think the only obvious conclusion would be that I love books, especially classics both of the Greek/Latin and canonical English literature variety, and I love music (have a whole shelf's worth of music from voice lessons and choirs, and even some old viola stuff) and I am a major hoarder of those books.
So, the answer right now would be very VERY funny...because I have three empty bookshelves in my main living room area, hundreds of books on the floor in bookshelf order next to my bed, as well as four or five boxes of books and a closet full of books stacked about a foot high. (I bulged a disk while moving...so actually putting books on the shelves was out. Besides, I need at least two more bookshelves to put them all up...)
This might give someone a very accurate impression of me, though, because I live a fairly higgledy-piggledy life.
On closer inspection, they might notice that I am sort of obsessive compulsive along with being a mess, though. It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. My books are all arranged by genre (as defined by me. I worked in a library for six years, and I could do dewey or LC numbering, but I don't really care to.) and they are carefully arranged (not as carefully on the floor as they will be on the shelf...but close enough) in order. For example, my poetry, my American lit, my British lit minus Lewis and Tolkien (who have a whole shelf to themselves! Woot!) are all in chronological order. I also have one shelf over my computer desk with "pretty" books and important large reference books, and another with language books--dictionaries, Greek/Latin texts, a Sanscrit textbook, random stuff like a teach yourself Welsh or Swedish...neither of which I have used, El Senor de los Anillos, etc.
I think the only obvious conclusion would be that I love books, especially classics both of the Greek/Latin and canonical English literature variety, and I love music (have a whole shelf's worth of music from voice lessons and choirs, and even some old viola stuff) and I am a major hoarder of those books.