Finally excited, finally moving
Tomorrow I’m starting the process of moving in to my new apartment with Tim. He’s already moved in (as of about two years ago) and I’m just super excited about getting to live with someone and getting to have my own place. I might even get a Wii for it. Because I hate being responsible and things. I’m really happy that I’m excited about moving, I was really nervous for quite a while. I kept having really bad dreams about moving out while I was in Europe and then I came back and got sick and wasn’t that excited about doing anything… Now that I’m wellish again though, I just can’t wait to get to move out and have my own things. Two nights ago, I had two excellent dreams about having my own place and decorating it. In both dreams, the apartment was much cooler than it actually is… but I’m just happy that I’m having happy dreams.
I’ve decided to decorate using this starched sheet idea. It’s a really good way to cover walls when your lease is bitchy about you ruining things with paint and wallpaper. So anyway, the idea is that you take fabric and you dip it in a bucket of starch and then you use a brayer to smooth it onto the walls. When you’re ready to move out, you just tear it down and soap up the walls. Hooray for simplicity and awesome wallcoverings. James was looking through my ReadyMade book a few weeks ago and said that he thought it was cool that they’d taken a big canvas and just painted “i’m home” on it in really big letters. So, I think I agree. In the same vein, I’m going to paint my wall-fabric with a poem that’s clever and not too depressing and hopefully a little bizarre. I’m choosing between the following:
Alicante by Jacques Prevert
Une orange sur la table (An orange on the table)
Ta robe sur le tapis (Your dress on the floor)
Et toi dans mon lit (And you in my bed)
Doux présent du présent (The gift of now)
Fraîcheur de la nuit (Cool wind of night)
Chaleur de ma vie (Passion fire of my life)
(It’ll be written in french only cos the translation is awkward and I’m not sure I trust the website I read it from. This translater is no Lawrence Ferhlingetti… owner of city lights and author of the translations in my book of Prevert poetry… but there are some words that I didn’t know so I had to cheat).
and the following which is untitled by Jack Kerouac
The bottoms of my shoes
are clean
from walking in the rain
I’m torn. I love Prevert and I think the poem is all awesome and sexy, but I’m also somewhat concerned by how incredibly emo it is to have a french poem in your bedroom. But, none-the-less, it’s really awesome. The Kerouac poem is awesome and I love his haikus the most besides his novels. So it might be a good one to do too. I’m gonna have to think it out. Any opinions?
I need my check from the masons to get here ASAP because I need to buy things at Target. Specifically, I want a mattress topper cos I don’t think the mattress that Joe and I had was very comfy… even if you sleep in the middle of it. Also, I need new sheets in part because I let Joe have the old ones and in part because I want different colors in the room even before I told them they were as good as his. My goal is dark blue. Kyle is particular about what he sleeps on, apparently, which seems obvious from the quality of sheets in his room (always very nice). I get finicky about sheets because I like my comforters to be so huge. So since the comforter is microsuede I was sheets that breathe well. He offered to buy the sheets because he wants a nice threadcount and I said that would be fine except that I don’t want satin. In part because I need sheets to breathe as per my earlier statement but also because I can’t sleep on satin without feeling really awkward. It’s too fancy. And I think it’s kind of emasculating. And if you’ve ever had unshaven legs which don’t have hair grown-out to the point of soft before… you’d know that sleeping on satin is like turning your legs into cacti and sleeping in any other bed. I decided tonight that cotton sateen might be a good middle point. But who knows. I just want dark blue. And breathable. Let’s face it. I prefer Cotton Jersey. I think Egyptian Cotton is something the jews picked when they were enslaved in Genesis.
I also want a mattress topper and some cups. I need some paint too so that I can paint the furniture that I want to paint. And I should probably be realistic about my life goals and sand the furniture a bit so that the paint will stick. Auuugh. I’m just excited to be sitting around my new apartment with the boxes unpacked. Why can’t that happen today?