May192010
A Little Light Reading/Listening
Filed under Music,School,stuff by Kim at 11:44 pm on May 19 2010
Here they are, all 40lbs of books for my summer semester. It’s a little intimidating, a little exhilarating. I really want to unpackage them and look at them, but at the same time, most of them are unreturnable if opened, and I want the prof to confirm I got the right books. You DO NOT want to know how much this stack of books set me back. I’ve installed them into their new homes next to my new desk and they are waiting to be cracked open.
These sentiments will all seem very quaint, very soon.
In the meantime my old desk*, which is now considered the “fun” desk, is home to the Big CD Archive Project. I seldom play CDs anymore. I carry the iPod Classic for a reason – I like having my whole collection with me. So it’s time to compact the CDs and store them. I’m going with spindles. They’re all on the desk, however, because there is still a lot of music that hasn’t been ripped.
Yay, tedious. Yay, countless 90s hits I’ve been overlooking**.
The booklets will go in a box, hopefully that won’t take up much space. My understanding is that the plastic in the jewel cases is not easily recyclable so I’ll have to deal with that. I guess I’ll just shove the compacted CDs and booklets under the bed in case the music police come by, and I’ll get an extra foot and a half where the CD shelves once stood. Incidentally, anyone want two CD shelves?
* Yes, I get to have two desks in the house! I am lucky.
** Now ripping: Andreas Vollenweider’s classic ’93 harp album, Eolian Minstrel.
1 Kimon 20 May 2010 at 12:39 am
Interesting: This pretty much indicates a plan to never buy another CD. I wonder how soon I will prove that wrong?
Also: I just realized that at the time I first began ripping music almost a decade ago, I had made myself so sick of Belle and Sebastian by overlistening that I didn’t rip much of their stuff. Now I get to kind of rediscover it, so that’s nice.
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2 Heatheron 25 May 2010 at 8:39 am
I have most of these books, and it makes me smile that someone else out there has the same stack. Even though I’m done with nursing school, I have kept many of those, and still use them on occasion. The Nsg Dx Manual is a total life saver! Good luck!
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Kim Reply:
May 25th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Thanks so much! I am soooo ready!
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