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Most people like to give the impression
that they are organized, neat ami aseptic
people in their own environment. I tend to
got caught up in the idea myself.
This week, I can't hear it anymore,
l ately, my surroundings have gone down
hill to the point of no recovery. My apart
ment has taken on the look of "Larly Re
modeling" style. I attribute the mess, a
modified barn-look, to the end-of-the
Monica
Osterbuhr
semester projects and tests that my
husband and 1 arc enveloped in. livery
thing we own seems to be coming out of
hiding and onto every available inch of flat
open space.
The carpet is covered with tiny pieces
of paper and new spring from the cutting
and pasting that will become layout. Weeks
of paper and newsprint from the cutting
things we don't have room for are shoved
into every comer, as though we work on
the side for a hardware store as glass pack
ers. Books, supplies, measuring tools, ad
hesive and shoes are strewn all over. Mail
from last month, tape cassettes and old
popcorn lay uninvitingly scattered about.
You may wonder why 1 don't clean it up
instead of just talking about it. My hus
band wonders the same thing. If 1 have all
this live time to write about my dilemma,
why don't I use it to clean up our place?
Willing about it is one thing, doing it is
something altogether different.
Friends delight in our fortune of having
a kitchenette in our apartment. That's just
one more area to become an eyesore. I'm
at the point where I'm so tired every day,
it's easier to go to class than to sit around
and look at the dirty dishes.
How could 1 have forgotten about the
long-suffering hours spent doing under
graduate work? How could I forget about
"the shakes" from exhaustion and the
sensation of lightbulbs flashing in front of
my pupils? To top it off, I'm getting edgy
about moving. For the fifth time in five
years my husband and I face another move.
I am over the shock of having to physically
leave my apartment and possibly this town
forever, but am petrified of packing again.
I packed things two years ago and don't
know where they are. Not only that, 1
don't know what they were.
For a couple who hasn't even been
married for a decade, we have enough
material goods to start a second-hand store.
The large items don't make trouble in a
move; it's the small things like my Rubik's
Cube, pin cushions, a stuffed bear,
coasters, ceramic dog, iron, wrapping bows,
photos, clothes and dishes that frustrate
me.
Chances are very great that I will not see
a number of things that are in my posses
sion for a number of years. We have at least
two more years of residence hall life ahead,
providing my husband gets a residence hall
director position somewhere. The last time
we moved, we devised an extensive
numerical coding list for our goods going
into commercial storage. We have tempor
arily lost the list.
More than half of our material posses
sions are stored in different locations. My
clothes are at my parent's house, my
albums at my brother's, my lamps at my
aunt's, table at my brother-in-law's and
most of my plants arc at my cousin's.
Now and then, we check the storage bin
for vandals to see if they've done a favor
and taken some of our junk. Maybe we
could encourage them by putting up "help
yourself signs and leaving the door ajar.
Nsforaslcan
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