Colors of the Rainknot

[wateredsilk]

Today, as is fairly frequent whenever I visit my parents, I got pulled into working at their office for a bit.  I've worked there on and off since I was a kid, and one of their receptionists had called in sick, so could I maybe...? Yeah, sure, after all, I am Super-Tracy of the many useful skills! But I didn't really bring down any work-appropriate

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[darcydodo]

Actually, I don't arrange my books by color, but I do tend to primarily think about their color (and general edge-binding configuration) when trying to locate one. Although I do have something of a book-arrangement system, I've had a few different ones over the course of time, and I tend to actually find books by overlapping my knowledge of the general part of my bookshelf they should be on and my knowledge of what they look like end-on.

[wateredsilk]

Ah, see, I frequently don't have my books even on the shelf, so if I remember covers, it's often because they've been piled next to my bed or have been sitting in a mess beside my desk.

[darcydodo]

Oh, I have those too! But I'm a Classics grad student. That means I have a lot of books. If they were all off the shelf, I'd have no bedroom, living room, kitchen, or garage. (As it is, I have no bedroom. That's from all the papers and half the books that aren't on the shelves.)

[wateredsilk]

Yeah, The Boyfriend's papers are slowly taking over the living room and office. The sad part is, I don't think even he knows where the physics ends and the music begins; it's all scattered throughout in these crazy, sad, little mishmashs of paper.

[creativitys_end]

That looks so cool. My books generally aren't even organized at all. Which is sort of sad.

[wateredsilk]

My books are "organized", insofar as I had some kind of system in place when I first arranged them. I think that in reality, the books are so wildly out of place, it's a miracle I even remember where they're supposed to be.