So, thanks to Haddock, I am now aware that my feeds are apparently awry, and I apologize for that. I think it has something to do with the latest version of Wordpress, which I recently upgraded to, since things are going haywire on the back end as well. At any rate, hopefully those of you who can’t read this because it’s not showing up in your feeds will eventually head to the main page and see this. The direct feed for this ain’t livin’ is at: meloukhia.net/feed, and you may want to update your feed readers to reflect this. There are some other direct links too; you can use your feed reader to find them, if you feel thus inclined, by typing in my URL.

Speaking of which, I do like the latest Wordpress, although it is kind of irritating that it’s making the site go all wonky. For those of you who use Wordpress, it is a good idea to upgrade to the latest version just in general, and it was an easy install. I realize it sounds sort of silly to be plugging the new version of Wordpress when I’m having site problems, but I’m not sure it’s fair to blame Wordpress for all of those problems. So, uh, go upgrade.

For those of you who are completely mystified by the above two paragraphs, here’s a story about rearranging furniture:

So, the thing is, I like to rearrange furniture. It’s kind of a thing with me. Usually, every six months or so, I totally rearrange my house. I start to feel restless when everything remains in a static position, and I get antsier and antsier until I abruptly decide it’s time to tear the living room apart, usually late at night, and then I get all sweaty and covered in dust and then I am filled with a sense of deep satisfaction.

The problem is, I can’t do that in my new house, because my new house is very small, and it has a highly restrictive floorplan. When I moved in last year, I arranged everything in what seemed like the most logical way, and everything is still arranged in pretty much the same way, despite the fact that I moved in almost a year ago. This is…unprecedented for me.

A few weeks ago, I rearranged the objects on the shelves in the kitchen, attempting to channel my frustrated desire to move furniture around, and it really wasn’t very satisfying. The problem is simple: I want to change the way my house looks and feels by moving things around, and I can’t, and I’m starting to feel like I’m suffocating, which makes me bemoan the myriad issues with my house even more.

For example, they could have put in a half-story to make the upstairs lofts useful, but they didn’t. So instead I have what seems like a lot of space upstairs, but I can’t use it, because the ceiling is too low. And they could have made the bathroom, I don’t know, a few square feet larger so that you don’t feel like you’re making out with the hot water heater when you take a poop. Oooh, and they could have put ventilation in the kitchen, so that the house doesn’t always smell like whatever was most recently cooked.

The fact of the matter is that I bore easily, and I think that rearranging furniture allows me to pretend that my house is different, as well as allowing me to work off some excess energy. And the thing is, I don’t really want to go through the headache of moving, because it’s a pain in the behind, so I’m stuck in this furniture configuration and it suddenly feels very oppressive. In short, I’m bored with my house.

I thought about moving my desk upstairs, because there is just enough room to sit on my ball and work up there, but I think I would feel too cloistered, what with the ceiling sloping in on either side of me. And then I would have to skulk upstairs to watch movies, which doesn’t sound all that pleasant. Plus, it’s going to get wicked hot up there this summer, because this house only has one window that opens. And, seriously, ONE WINDOW? It’s not like this is Siberia, people. Cross-drafts are actually a good idea, and I’m not talking about the drafts that whistle through all the cracks in the winter.

So maybe I could move my desk against the west wall, and unstack my bookcases and line them up against the wall that the desk faces now. But then I would have my back to the window, which I think would give me the heebie-jeebies.

Maybe I’ll just burn all the furniture and fit the house out Japanese-style.

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