How things are at present

[fpb]

The translation market is deader than I have ever seen it. I hope it is just a seasonal thing and not that recession that everyone keeps insisting is over. However, I have started serious work on rearranging my flat, which now looks more like a building site and less like a battlefield. I am also hoping this will help with the latest slimming drive - which include distant supervision from my doctor - since I really have come to realize that my overweight problem is interfering with my active life, and I cannot afford to just let it take over. [sings} If I were a rich man, yada dida dida dida dida dida dah, all day long I'd biddy biddy bum, if I were a wealthy man... - but I am not, and with the translation market in a coma I have to rely on the dubious kindness of the British state.

You would think that this would be a damn depressing situation to be in, but as a matter of fact I am less depressed than the average. And I think this is entirely to do with the start of serious work on the flat. I have been brooding about changing things around for years, but now that I have started I not only see possibilities everywhere, but the fact itself of having things to do is encouraging rather than otherwise. The work just multiplies; install a shower in my bathtub; place a waterproof curtain there; put up shelves; turn the skeletons of the old bed I am taking apart into frames for new bookcases (I have very luckily found some wood which will fit in the frames just great); move several bookcases and rethink the distribution of books, comics, CDs, tapes and vinyl; wash the carpet; repair the bicycle and turn the wrecks of previous ones into a whole second one - just because; possibly build some sort of shelter to avoid them being rain-damaged again; sort the clothes that no longer fit me and (unless I see some real prospect of slimming) send them to charity. You would think that this would feel overwhelming, but in fact, now that I have started on it instead of just brooding on it on my own, I feel ever so slightly exhilarated.

Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Uhh, you haven't forgotten this is me you're talking about, have you?

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

By peaceful order, I just mean that beautiful moment when you've got your place clean and orderly, and everything seems so nice and spacious and bright that makes it feel like you have so much more space and can breathe! It usually last no more than five minutes, then you start living in your space and it gets dirty again!