New year, new pattern

[elainegrey]

Knowing that the 6 am call days were wreaking havoc of some sort, today i am trying a different model. As before, on work email fifteen minutes before the call to collect myself, but after the call: stop. So, now i can journal and email and do stuff for a while before "returning" to work -- and that's the question now: at 9 am? Then the day should be a little shorter? Or 10 am. I'm thinking 9 am, because i will want to be caught up before the 10 am calls.

OK.

lola_kristine read my Winter goals and noted that "The HALL" sounds ominous. Why yes it is! First of all, there's no light in the hall and there's no ambient light yet, so no photos. We have two long low cabinets, custom made for our previous apartment, that have two shelves at CD height, and it's two CDs deep. The CD shelving is so out of order it's comical, we should probably buy flashlights to dedicate to finding things in the shelves. That is the easy part.

On top of the shelves are boxes from our last move, containing photos and frames and art. We intend to fill the hall with family photos and art. We'd bought the frames for around the large window on the Presido, the window the CD shelves were custom designed to sit under.

Hanging on the main wall currently is a huge laminated aerial photo of *a section* of the community college campus Christine and i did GIS work at. It was a substantial investment for Christine and, as she has continued with a contract job to create the campus GIS (almost done, hurrah!), a signifier of sorts. Taking that down (which just went up in the vacuum) may have more emotional meaning and significance than simply taking it down.

We did get up the long photo of her father's divinity class at Harvard, nineteen-forty-something, some years back: it's on a wall visible from the dining area and gets some light. The rest of the hall is reasonably lit by ambient light during the day, but we will need to figure out some lighting solution appropriate for renters.

Then, once we clear the boxes off the long shelves comes another challenge. I would like to put some of the pottery collection there and some of our very large books from Books'R'Crack The Folio Society. (This would then clear up floor space and shelf space, so other books could have homes in the barrister book case and on the desk shelves.)

The surface screams "Cats will run here." Quake putty seems cat-proof so far, but that's mainly been Greycie Loo's dancing up the walls. Edward is more massive and claims some file boxes that have been left at the end of the CD shelves. What will he make of the new surface?

I suppose an question may be whether we just get more Ikea book cases that go higher to fill the hall space. We could have an "eye-level" display area for pottery and photos, while much more of the space is occupied by books and media. Hmmm.