Fourteen clocks and half as many walls

[sovay]

Slowly this room begins to look like someone lives here. Yesterday, with gaudior's help, I moved the desk and the dresser into their rightful locations; today I put away all my clothes that were in garbage bags, leaving only one bag of clean sheets and towels (I really want a tiny linen chest) and the suitcase and black travel bag of good clothes, which would ordinarily be on hangers in a closet except that the closet currently contains stuff belonging to my cousins, including the ramshackle bookcase that threatened to fall forward everywhere else in the room we tried it. Tonight I set up my sound system and the mermaid lamp on my desk. There's still clutter, but some of it is unavoidable; I am sharing the room with boxes of my cousins' manga, which Gaudior stacked into a neat half-ziggurat against the wall so that I could jigsaw my luggage into it. The rest came with me and will get sorted in the next few days. I had enough of boxes lying around the floor during this last move.

nineweaving sent me a radio ghost:



I miss my cats.

Comments

[umadoshi]

MERMAID LAMP!

Much sympathy on missing the cats. *hugs*

[sovay]

MERMAID LAMP!

I've had it since childhood, when the mermaids were sea-green-skinned with weed-black hair; my father repainted them two years ago like tattoo mermaids, red-haired, yellow-haired, with silvery green tails. The paint has become a little chipped with moving, but I suspect it could be touched up. I'll try to remember to take pictures!

[umadoshi]

I'll try to remember to take pictures!

That would be very cool. ^_^

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

That picture is beautiful.

Thank you for updating. I hope you get cat time again soon.

*hugs*

[sovay]

That picture is beautiful.

I wish I were writing; it is exactly the sort of thing I would want to write about.

Thank you for updating. I hope you get cat time again soon.

Thank you. I am going to visit them tomorrow. I need to work out a better schedule. This is too long without their familiar scent and sound and claws.

*hugs*

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Gaudior's radio ghost is beautiful, perfect. It captures the feeling of haunting and being haunted, of loss, perfectly.

Remind me where your cats are? Are they with your parents?

[sovay]

It captures the feeling of haunting and being haunted, of loss, perfectly.

I would like to use it as a prompt to write something, but it doesn't seem that my brain is producing either poetry or prose right now, which I hate.

Remind me where your cats are? Are they with your parents?

I wish! Everyone wishes! My mother is so violently allergic to cats that her doctors will not even allow her to try the desensitization shots; she could not offer even to have them in the house. The cats are with derspatchel in Roslindale, but I am with gaudior and rushthatspeaks in Somerville. I will be going to visit them tomorrow. I am hoping Autolycus still curls right up onto my shoulder and purrs like a monster truck. I miss them both, but I miss him most: he was the cat that chose me.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I hope the ghost will come to you. I would love to read what that story wakes in you.

Nine