Things Presently In My Room Which Confuse Me

[rushthatspeaks]

How Did These Get In Here?

one extremely large bottle Rebel Yell bourbon with approx. two shots left (maybe I can use it as paint thinner if I ever need to thin any paint)

one box Lipton's Cup-a-Soup Chicken Noodle which I honestly have never seen before

six (6) strands Mardi Gras beads, three sparkly purple, three gold

one sparkly fairy-godmother type wand with a star on the end of it and streamers

four identical black Sharpies

Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish, in French (how the *hell* did this get on my desk? Was I having some kind of mental lapse?)

I Know How These Got Here, But I Wish I Didn't

two-foot-long inflatable platypus

extremely large crinkly piece of shiny paper

sixteen redundant cardboard storage boxes

fourteen volumes of The Complete History of the Papacy, out of order

one set white elbow-length opera gloves sewn with green sequins

a lone jack of hearts

six-inch high cast-iron owl candle-holder

tape containing the greatest hits of the Bloodhound Gang and Mylene Farmer (the latter in French)

copy Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars, feminine edition, bound in fuchsia leather with gold tooling and highlighted at all quotations from the Apocryphal Texts of Enoch

stuffed camel named Niles (not by me)

stuffed squirrel with detachable tail

orange stained glass platypus suncatcher

fluffy kitten stickers all over computer monitor

green-sequined garters unsuitable for actually holding up stockings (not that I have any stockings)

I Don't Usually Have And Somehow, At The Moment...

*Absolutely complete* works of Angela Carter

six different half-full water bottles

large collection of bad promotional X-Men stickers

two boxes chocolate Pocky with printing on boxes entirely in Thai

four half-full tins *purple* hair dye (what?)

complete game map of Zork III

Comments

[eredien]

I can take the squirrel back.

What is a "feminine edition?" That book sounds like something that ought to have been in the art exhibit in "Lights out for the Territory".

[ryenna.livejournal.com]

Dude, the things that used to accumulate in my dorm room... Even (perhaps especially) when I was rarely sleeping there.

Most of such things ended up May Day gifts or in a box marked "BMC oddities".

They sell Pocky at the store Andy manages, many flavors, but all the almondy ones are milk chocolate so I do not buy it.

I am intruigued by the kitten stickers.

-Amanda

[rabidfangurl.livejournal.com]

The Incresingly Ludicrious Fairy is puzzled as to how her wand ended up in your room, because she swore it was with the antlers last she saw.

She also wants it back.

[rabidfangurl.livejournal.com]

Wait, it is on top of the antlers. The Increasingly Ludicrious Fairy now wishes to inquire if her wand has spawn, or if not, then whose wand *is it*?

To change the subject...

[khava.livejournal.com]

I heard that a tree fell on and collapsed the roof of Glenmede, trapping two students in their rooms until the fire department came and cut them out. Is this true?

Re: To change the subject...

[eredien]

Yes, though it was Glenmede gateway house and not the main Glenmede house. It was three McBrides. Two had "minor injuries" and are okay now. They're living in the carriage house until the gateway house is repaired, which might take a while. The tree was apparently on someone else's land.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

A fair amount of that is from, I believe, your 21st birthday party?

I absolutely cannot help you with the Foucault, tho.

Love,
Ruth.