what i should is to be doing work but as it is i'm looking for shower curtains and room curtains and mattresses and bureaus and carpets. i've decided i don't want anything white or beige or blue in my room. i'll have plummy shades, dark purples and wines (like harriet's wine-coloured frock. "port or sherry?" "claret." ... "i've waited a hundred years to see you dance in that frock." i think there's something about an arthiritic and elderly elephant in that too, but i forget what.) very dark pinks. and greens. sharp bright greens of the sort you call to mind when you think of thai silk, and milder greens of the sort catalogues call sage (or cucumber, or after some sort of plant life anyway.) dark greys with a hint of green and dark greens with hints of grey. i seem to be letting the two beijing cushions that addy gave me dictate the colour policy. heh.