Of Studies And SEPs
I’ve been sorting stuff out.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m changing jobs next week and so I’ve had to prepare to take home all the personal crap I’ve accumulated in nine and a half years with one employer — which appears to consist of a family photo, about nine and a half years worth of payslips, a dilbert desk calendar (much to the disgust of my colleagues who were hoping that would remain), and perhaps least usefully, a little device that was embedded in a chocolate advent calendar back in December 1999 that produces a Bart Simpson laugh when you press it.
You know, important stuff.
Meanwhile, all my projects and stuff have been passed over to other people now and have become SEPs and — what? An SEP? Oh, it’s from “Life, The Universe and Everything”:
“An SEP,” he said, “is something we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s somebody else’s problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it’s like a blind spot.”Ford Prefect, in Douglas Adams’ ‘Life, The Universe, and Everything’
So, anyway, all of my projects and systems are now SEPs and I’m very much winding down now I’ve only got two days to go (well, about one and a half, given my current flexi time balance), and meanwhile I’m trying to get myself all nice and sorted for the new job.
This required Sorting Out The Study.
Yes, it did require capitalisation. My study has traditionally been… well … a pile of books with a computer in it.
I decided that this wasn’t the most efficient or effective use of space for an area where I’m going to be working three full days a week (let alone the evenings spent wittering on on the blog as per usual) so I decided I needed to convert the small room into two areas.
So I’ve now got a desk area, comprising of a desk, my PC, a printer, a scanner, enough USB ports to shake a stick at, as well as the aforementioned Dilbert desk calendar. But — and here’s the clever bit — I also have a nice lounge chair in the other half of the room, so that while the desk area is my workspace, I still have ‘relax space’ in the room for chilling out, reading books or listening to music.
Not only that, but the reorganisation has created sufficient space for me to put another set of bookshelves in the room. Yes, I do know that many smaller public libraries have less books than me, but that’s not the point…
There’s just one teensy problem. The lounge chair I’ve pinched is part of the wife’s set of wicker/cane furniture that sits nicely in the conservatory and she’s starting to add the words “now” and “or else” to her demands that I return it to its original location.
Darn.
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The solution, to both wife hints and posterior comfort is another piece of expenditure. Get a small bed settee. That way, the office doubles as a ‘guest bedroom’, you have relax space, and your wife will be happy, as will the Council if they decide to review your tax situation re office space.