Thursday, December 27, 2007

As Christmas As Moving the Furniture

Anyone who knows Studyboy, knows that he is a master at modifying his work environment to suit his purpose. This is true if the work space is a wood shop or a class room, and it is true of his StudyLair.
We had to dismantle the StudyLair and make it a bedroom because the LeXy TD came to visit for Christmas (she wanted to be called Catwoman but dc comics threatened to sue.) In fact it was necessary to rearrange the whole apartment to accommodate Christmas and another human.
The hall closet moved to the Laundry Closet so the area by the door could be Tree Central.
The Reading Chair from the StudyLair moved to the living room so all of us could sit at one time and we didn't have to play a week long game of Christmas Musical Chairs.
On the feasting day, bits of living room furniture were stuffed into other rooms so it could double as the dining room because the kitchen is too small for three to sit at the table. Truly, the living room is also too small to sit three at a table but one of my superpowers is the ability to shoehorn large objects into too small a space. It's called Yanaspace, sort of like what librarians do in L Space.
Once we moved the table out of the kitchen we realised how much easier it was to move in there. We decided that Studyboy would use the larger kitchen table as a desk in the StudyLair, and the kitchen would get his narrower make shift desk that was really just a coffee table jacked up on empty boxes. So early this morning after the LeXy TD flew off out of the sunrise, we started rearranging the furniture (again).
Away went the spare bed from the StudyLair and back went the Reading Chair into its place. The table swap happened, but instead of boxes to support the weight of the vintage 1982 microwave we snagged at a yard sale last fall, we used a small shelf unit from the StudyLair (also a yard sale find.) That shelf was used to hold up the swing arm book rest that floats in front of Studyboy's Reading Chair. Lesser humans would just hold the book in their hands, but this is what I mean by his talent for workspace modification. So today, when the rest of St. John's was out for Boxing Day Sales and Armageddon Shopping ahead of a big storm, we were out looking for a drill bit and a box of screws to jury rig another support for the book rest.

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