for 2 hours i have just engaged in the most dangerous possible activity all year - rearranging things on my bookshelf. i don't know what you people think, but it's not easy to stand on the edge of your table, clinging to the edge of a shelf and bending backwards because otherwise your head hits the ceiling and bending forward you can't see anything. and trying to move stubbornly heavy books with one hand and making desperate lunges to catch books falling and sliding down i really don't think i should own any hardcover books. i am not sure whether i do more damage to them - their covers seem to disintegrate with unbelievable speed in my possession - or them me - i have just been hit very hard by a falling book. this happens often enough but this time it hurt so much that tears came to my eyes before i could help it. additionally it brought down my swingle singers' jazz bach cd and the case smashed. rather pleased now that i've straightened everything up and also cleared another bit of space - 32 inches of books, doublestacked. that's really all i can afford to add in the coming year though, unless i buy bookshelves, though there is no room for shelves in my already very small room. and i don't know how i'm going to get all of them home, and then back again in a year's time, it will probably cost a fortune to ship, and i haven't room at home either. oh well. maybe i can get new bookshelves when i'm home.

i am only 1/3 of the way through the greek but i am hopelessly distracted. by random books. not even thesis books, but browsing through othello and wondering about chaos coming again. isn't it curious? that the first to be born of chaos is love? not to love is to return to nothing. and browsing through john fuller, madeleine l'engle and a bunch of harry potters. i would go to the library to get them but they're all tucked in the education library. why? pratchetts are in alderman, but for potters you have to go to the juvenile book section. tsk. ARGH!! how is it possible that night watch is already in the school library. checked out, no doubt, but i can't believe we've got it already. didn't it just come out? and a good thing it's checked out too or i would not study greek nor write my paper. i hope this person returns in by monday so i can bring it home with me and read it on the plane. i'm bringing a lot of library books home with me i do hope it'll be okay unless luggage goes astray. it might mightn't it? oh well. why can't we turn in papers at the beginning of each term, the way su-lin gets to? *grim*