To fail is art, drink ale and fart.
Since there's no accommodation for me at University until someone drops out, I've spent some time today arranging The Funnel Web(the small room in my Mum's house where I live) to make it more habitable.
Since I got back from the States, I've been sleeping on a mattress on the floor(which isn't nearly as squalid as it sounds) as we have no bedframes spare. I can't afford to buy a bed frame(and I'll only be here another couple months at most, hopefully) so I have used 7 comic longboxes to raise the mattress off of the ground. It's almost real-bed height now.
I've also managed to arrange all the clothes I own into one very small shelving unit(with shirt piled extremely high on the top shelf, I must add) and the rest of my possessions are stored on top of the tumble dryer.
Oh yes, there's a tumble dryer in my room. Did I not mention that?
When I moved to Falmouth last year we needed a pretty big van to get all my stuff there. Obviously I had an entire flat to populate, but still - that was a lot of stuff for a 18 year-old. When I do finally move into halls at Uni I'm going to try and be much more Spartan about it, I think. Maybe just enough clothes for a 9-day cycle instead of the whole wardrobe-full. A couple of books I haven't yet finished, as opposed to my entire library. The small unicycle. Oh, and the projector, surround-sound and PC, as well as my laptop.
Yeah, the last sentence kind-of destroys the 'Spartan' element, doesn't it?
I'm quite worried about which of my DVDs to take. I would prefer to take them all, as I like to have my entire 250+ collection to peruse when settling down to a film/tv show, but I don't think that'll be possible in the small room typical of a University dorm. Aside from a few clear favourites(Empire Records, High Fidelity, Big Train) I just don't know what to take.
Luckily, of course, I'm only going to be an hour and a half away from home. I can always pop back to fetch something I need. I'd rather avoid doing that, obviously, but it's nice to have the out.