KaijuDesk, Winter Edition – In Progress
Watch troubles and the second cold and frosty morning, etc. etc... cue the Oasis song; I think I've got the lyrics right. Or an approximation thereof.
Learning to work in the arctic morning chill, still, of my back room / former paint shop office / Sanctum. Space heater, one of those faux fireplace things, which gives off a good amount of heat in a narrow focus but just barely edges out the chill. And, befitting my stubborn desire to not waste electricity to stay warm or fend off pneumonia, I had – among other things – considered taking a saw to KaijuDesk and moving it upstairs to my former, no-less chilly, office.
Recognizing that this was, most likely, unrealistic, and, in a bid to make my paint shop Sanctum even more of a cocoon and ensure heat distribution beyond the borders of my neuropathy-in-waiting feet, a notion to make KaijuDesk even larger, transforming it from an L to a U; jam that warmth in the cocoon, in the cave, like a bear... after a false start with an antique Shaker writing desk, the U was finally crafted by Frankensteining my old desk, a footboard unearthed in the attic and retrofitted with IKEA legs, with KaijuDesk. With this amalgamation of Sanctums former and present, a realization: my desire to move back upstairs wasn't because I missed the space but because I missed my old desk.
And now, reunion, the coffee rings of old formed over eight years of projects and thinking and moving and shifting to the coffee rings of new, a faux fireplace underneath... because of course I'm writing this grotesque at the kitchen table; I don't want to turn the heater back on.
The day’s run awaits. Happy Saturday; regular ramblings return on Monday.
