Posted by alexandra_k on October 24, 2014, at 18:04:30
In reply to Re: your case-- (from upstream in the thread) » pontormo, posted by alexandra_k on October 24, 2014, at 2:28:13
I have rearranged my room... It makes a huge difference, actually. Something that I like to do every now and then. A bit of a fresh start. It has been a bit hard with the places I've been living. Having such a tiny space. Only one logical place for things. Perhaps that was why I needed to move rooms occasionally.
Anyway... The monitor makes a huge difference. Really, very. Odd.. For what is, in many respects, a very tiny thing. I guess my mobile phone made a huge difference to my life, too. My mobile... Gives me instant access to emails. And I can phone people occasionally. Which I've actually taken to doing. My Mother, even. For better or worse... I think it is important to the both of us to get along.
The monitor ties me to my desk, rather. Which would have been a bit of a pain before. For so many years now... Like... 11 or 12 years... I've loved laptops for their portability. Being able to write my thesis in cafes or under a shady tree...
The only writing I do these days is Babbling. All my assessments have been multiguess. I can't remember the last time I had to submit written work... Even law is exams rather than essays. I had to write a one page assignment for tech... Aside from that... Applications for things... But no written work since Australia.
I don't really need a laptop anymore. Maybe I'll get a desktop next time around. Bootcamp windows. Play Skyrim ahahaha.
The main thing I need in a study space is... To have the stuff, yeah. The books and the powerpoints etc... I'm hoping I can get away without a printer with having the monitor display... But what I really need... Is to be able to chatter to myself. Tell myself stories. 'There are 5 kinds of junctions: tight, adherans, desmosomes, hemidesmosomes, gap. tight junctions bind cells tightly so contents of organs don't leak. they can be found in the lining of the stomach, intestines, bladder. they are comprised of strands of transmembrane protein...'
And then of course, one day, find a good group of people who study like me... And we can quiz each other 'what is the transmembrane protein in a hemidesmosome?' and 'where would you find a gap junction?'...
none of this.... 'draw a graph of the pressure - volume relationship shading the amount of work'.
I think I might get a bean bag. They have them in the short loan library and they are terrific. You can sort of... Lie back on them to stretch out your hip flexors. YOu can lie across them on your belly like a whale... Until the library people grump at you for lying on the floor (no lying on the floor! it is a rule, apparently. And beanbags count as floor sometimes according to some of them). You can move about in them, that is the point... So you don't get... Stuck. Siezed up. Gosh darn it I am getting old. I have been thinking about getting one for a while, but thought there wasn't really room for it... But I think there is room for it... I can squash it into a corner under my desk... Or into a corner beside my desk... I might even be able to get a little table / book shelf / drawer space kind of thing... Sorely need one... No freaking drawers / stuff all shelves in this room... Living out of bags...
I know it is weird... But little things like this... Are so important to me, psychologically. Perhaps because this really is my home. It isn't a... Hotel. I'm not here for a 6 month student exchange and then moving on. I'm not even here for the 24 weeks of the academic year and then moving on. This is me... This is it... I don't have much... But I kinda like the idea of really... Really liking the stuff that I've got.
I remember one of my friends saying something like that to me... She said that she was used to having lots and lots and lots of stuff growing up. She had a bunch of sisters... So clothes, in particular. Lots and lots of stuff... But then moving around a lot for conferences... And study stints here and there... And she was coming around to this idea of having 1 suitcase full of good stuff. Instead of wardrobes full of mostly crap. Or... Stuff she didn't really like. Or stuff she might fit into one day. Or whatever...
I really like that way of thinking... Except for these nice wool / silk pants I got for my last med interview... Pretty charcoal and they sit just right... Before I got my squatters *ss. God dammit... THey never will fit again :( Bloody things are probably cursed, anyway. Perhaps that is the way to look at it...
The monitor... Really is very beautiful for moving images. Wow... Wow, indeed. Pictures... Are terrific, too. Text... I am dissapointed in text. I think it is because of all the stuff I read off the internet... People were saying that text was a very basic thing... Moving images... Colour... Those are hard. Basically making it sound like text is to moving image as walking is to running (toddlers learning aside). Like the demands on moving image are so much higher... Anything competent in that can handle text easy.
But I'm finding moving image to be beautiful, indeed. But text is looking grainy to me. Grainier than textbooks. The edges of text - at any font size - look pixelated. But I don't find that with printed textbooks. Why is this???
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