The manuscript, it folds...

So I got hold of the post office where my manuscript is, directly. And I ask why it wasn't delivered. 'Oh,' the guy says, 'it won't fit in the box. It's only five by five.'

Uh?

I sort of had this theory that a publishing company who is expecting lots and lots of manuscripts would get a PO box in which said manuscripts will fit. This is logical, yes?

Right.

So I said to the guy, 'Go ahead and fold it.' And he says 'Okay, I can do that.'

So it's delivered. But I admit to a bit of a decrease in respect for my possible first publisher.

Almost there...

I've been working on everything but Pennsic.

But my room is _almost_ very, very nice now. The second table is in, and the computer's set up on it. I need to run two more network cables, but that's trivial.

The bed is cleared off, and I sprayed it with a deodorizing mix. (Cheap vodka, diluted in water. What? I don't _drink_ the stuff...) Tomorrow, if enough of the musty smell is gone, I will make the bed again, and then I'll be able to sprawl upon it and read.

I'm giving some thought to getting a futon couch frame for that spot, instead; we already have a futon that would fit, and usually it lives wedged under the bed. I'm sure we could find a home for the bed - it's a single, but it's a Craftmatic. :)

In any case, there's still plenty to do:

1) move the chair I used to use downstairs - the thing is seriously overkill and I like this one better.

2) make the bed, and pile the Usual Stuff atop it. though I still have to decide if Siegfried is among the Usual Stuff

3) rearrange the stuff in the plastic-drawer-things I have so the small one is _with luck_ empty, so I can re-fill it with desky things. (The problem with using tables instead of desks...more space on top, but no drawers!)

4) let poor Siegfried out...I haven't had a chance much today...

5) carry the milk crate with the paper upstairs, and probably put the small drawer-thing atop it

6) possibly stack some of the random desky-things (file folders and such) in the box with the paper

7) hang some of my feather masks on the walls

In other news, I have (re)discovered that I should never, ever go to Staples without a specific shopping list, and just enough money to buy what's on it. I've added a CD case and two small cup-things to hold coins and paper clips to the anal retentivity supplies I bought Thursday.

But now my desk is neater. :)

However, I really _do_ need to start getting ready for Pennsic at some point...