Beyond the cleaning up!

November 2, 2009

My mind probably will never fully understand the meaning of the word”storage”, especially if “storage” implies you put things away with order… in any language you say it, I think that I’m probably unable to understand what “order” can be, for more than 2 seconds
It is a GREAT and BIG problem for my studies, especially now that I’m studying physics. Physics is something that requires a certain level of mental order… well, actually most of the best physicists are REALLY crazy, but it’s another kind of craziness.

I spent most of my life in my room. A little room in a little apartment placed in a building of a little city. Ok, I guess at this point I can be asked “Are you a smurf”?. Who knows?!

I live in “small” places and in a situation of “little chances”, but I do dream big and love photography… then, for my 21st bday I asked my parents an iMac 24”.

Their reaction: “WHAT?! 2,000 euros for a computer?! Are you crazy? Can’t you, at least, get the 20” one?”

At the end “I won”. I mean, I got the 24” iMac, my parents paid the whole thing, but for the following 12 months I had to give back the 90% that wasn’t included in the 21st  birthday present. Isn’t it “lovely”?

At this point, people with tidy minds could wonder: “Which is the relationship between her messy mind, her room and her 21st birthday “present”? “

SPACE and DISORDER!

The coming of the new computer made me doing a little revolution in my “computer station”, that is actually on “wheels” as moths of the thing in my room…
[For those who are computers geeks: "Do you recall the game named Sokoban?" That's how thing are "placed" in my room ]

Consequence of the revolution: something had to move away, therefore, for almost 18 months 1/4 of my table has been “occupied” by those objects that “moved away” when the new computer came. They were like clandestine on it.  My mother complained a little and I answered back: “When I can I’ll put “the alien” away and  clandestine stuff will move to its place”. The moment came 18 months late… C’mon, it isn’t such a big period of time if you consider that in the meanwhile I studied, failed or half-failed a lot of tests and got depressed

Here is “The alien”:

who “kindly” opened its mouth when I wanted to download pictures…

He left the room. My room.

After at least 6 or 7 years it has been in it…My first pc is leaving forever. Sniff! The pc that I used when photography passion started hitting me very hardly, the same PC that allowed me to “meet” that men who become a really good friend, the PC that… was just my first “all mine” PC.

It’s leaving a part of my history… I took away from it the 2 HD and put them on my table in the hope to buy (someday) 2 little “proper boxes” to make them become external HD. While saving the HD I thought: “It’s like preserving a working brain of a dear person…” moved away from this thought a second after I started it

The “The Alien’s place” before it left:

As you can see beside “the alien” there were, beside a lot of mess, a lot of dictionaries and grammars and English language related stuff. I could write 2 other posts about those books, but I’ve wrote already too much today.

Now the place looks this way:

Once again physics (and it’s only a little part of my books and copybooks!) occupied most of my life spaces with less funny and colorful things… it’s fine… It’s what I decide for my life 3 years ago:”studying physics”. Probably an huge mistake but I’ve to deal with it, I like it or not

More powerful passions didn’t totally move away. On the “upper” level there are still 2 dictionaries, a grammar, the external HD (at the moment just one because the other one is in the “electronic stuff sickbay”=”boyfriend house”) and other photography related things and a few of “old” CD-ROMS.

This is just a spot of the revolution, tomorrow I’ve to keep on changing thing in my whole room. I’m extremely tired, but it’s worth. Changes can be good too.