tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265758111946440722.post5610755478730770578..comments2023-07-12T02:48:20.029-05:00Comments on Going 40 in a 20 Zone: Correspondence, continuedScott Rohrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09849255157125487663noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265758111946440722.post-26169649728992231972009-02-21T17:23:00.000-06:002009-02-21T17:23:00.000-06:00I think arranging books by color is an excellent i...I think arranging books by color is an excellent idea. One I may have to take up although I am prone to chronological arrangement. The one tower of books by your countertop looks to be waning a bit to the left. I have ignored such piles in my own home only to be woken up in the middle of the night by books falling from the sky around me. (my shelf was mounted to the perimeter of my bedroom, near the ceiling) Not a pleasant way to rest.Mandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02462006934452054196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265758111946440722.post-24026670922516768642009-02-19T16:18:00.000-06:002009-02-19T16:18:00.000-06:00Axis 1: 309.4 Adjustment disorder with mixed dis...Axis 1: 309.4 Adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct<BR/><BR/>Axis 2: 301.4 Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder<BR/><BR/>Axis 3: None known<BR/><BR/>Axis 4: Mild to moderate stressors including atypical sequencing of educational milestones, disruption in homelife due to forced international relocation, occupational stress due to NCLB and enforced daily interaction with adolescents, recent recovery from eight years of Republican hegemony<BR/><BR/>Axis 5: Current GAF = 62<BR/>Moderate symptoms including some difficulty in tasks of daily living, only partial management of obsessional rituals, poor insight regarding accurate context and meaning of behaviors.<BR/><BR/>Prognosis: Somewhat guarded, due to poor insight mentioned above.<BR/><BR/>Client denies suicidality, is able to contract for safety, and is able to understand the implications of withholding information. Client is able to enter legal contracts and sign checks.debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11701744720665792046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265758111946440722.post-46531794913190887982009-02-19T10:42:00.000-06:002009-02-19T10:42:00.000-06:00Yes, Ann, before my housewarming, I told you what ...Yes, Ann, before my housewarming, I told you what K had incorrectly told me: that Scott arranges ALL his books according to color. <BR/><BR/>During my housewarming, I shared my feelings about this with Scott (we may or may not have passed a "talking pillow" around during this mini-intervention), telling him that it was keeping me awake at night, wondering if he would, say, actually split up the Harry Potter series because the covers have different colors. Scott then reassured me by explaining that K had been mistaken: Scott and Eric just have the one column of red books (I did misunderstand part of Scott's explanation that night and thought that he had one invisible bookcase filled with red cookbooks). In any case, I've been sleeping much better ever since.<BR/><BR/>You, Ann, were apparently not in the room during this exchange and perhaps did not hear me shouting my relief from the rooftops, so I sincerely apologize for allowing you to continue to live under this horrible misconception. <BR/><BR/>Next step: an intervention on K about his apparent use of hallucinatory drugs! (I think K actually told me that he had HELPED Scott arrange all his books according to color, which led K to arrange all his own cookbooks by color. And maybe his other books, too?)<BR/><BR/>P.S. If I truly suffered from the most serious form of particularism, I would be unable to allow my French-titled DVDs and books to co-exist next to the English-titled ones, not only due to the disconcerting mixing of languages, but also due to the fact that French publishers write titles on the binding in the opposite direction (English titles run from the top of the spine to the bottom, whereas French titles run from the bottom to the top), which means that you have to turn your head from one side to the other to read the different titles in a row of mixed-language books and DVDs. If I were truly sick, the fact that this bugs me every time I look at such a shelf would force me to create new organizational sub-categories and separate these sub-groups. But because I am Master of my condition, I am able to deal with rocking my head back and forth as I read the titles on the shelves, and most people don't even know about this horrible tragedy in my life. The rest of my DVD organizational method is simply Right and Salutory.Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00891080313862925535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265758111946440722.post-45041225147388814752009-02-18T20:10:00.000-06:002009-02-18T20:10:00.000-06:00Alas, Stephanie, you were the one who REPORTED Sco...Alas, Stephanie, you were the one who REPORTED Scott's method to me. Had you, perhaps, explained it more thoroughly, you could have saved G40 the trouble.<BR/><BR/>FYI: One of the reasons I designed my own home was to include an actual library (floor to ceiling shelves with a sliding ladder, just like in Beauty and Beast, the sight of which made me cry in the theater) so that I could stop the bookshelves-in-every room and random piling madness. Of course, the library is now full (despite the buy-a-book, sell-a-book rule, too oft ignored) and books have begun to stew about. Thus the attempt to rearrange a few shelves last Monday.<BR/><BR/>I already have a satisfying organizational method in the library proper, but thanks for your kind offer of systemization assistance. Highlights include fiction and nonfiction on opposite sides of the room, with fiction alphabetized and nonfiction categorized. Poetry, English language/theory, literature anthologies, and drama have their own shelves proper, while Shakespeare has two shelves. The bottom row, all the way across, is my children's section (rarely used by children, surprisingly useful for teaching high schoolers, who easily pick up the meaning of alliteration from Dr. Seuss's "B Book"). I recently noticed that my Stephen King section is ordered by publishing date, but other multiple volume authors are arranged to look pretty (usually by height). <BR/><BR/>I have decided the following, thanks to our host. A small pile of mismatched, non-thematically chosen books sits on my fireplace mantle. These were selected by my mother, who rearranges EVERYTHING whenever she visits (just ask my poor migrating plants). This little collection of books is ugly like the dead brown grass outside my window. And if you know how much I adore snow cover, you know that means UGLY. I shall remove the offending volumes and replace them with a smart pile of horizontally stacked red books.<BR/><BR/>I promise to report when the stack has been assembled.<BR/><BR/>PS After hearing Steph's DVD org. method, I have become a believer in "particularism" as a serious disease.annwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08156985265566637062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265758111946440722.post-55453552547487396722009-02-18T15:17:00.000-06:002009-02-18T15:17:00.000-06:00If I read between the lines, I think you're sugges...If I read between the lines, I think you're suggesting that *my* method is less desirable than yours.<BR/><BR/>I prefer the strew-it-about and make-a-random-pile-when-you-have-to system.<BR/><BR/>In this way, my entire life is one long game of Scavenger Hunt, and I never have to lose my child-like sense of play.<BR/><BR/>hahahahahahahahahahaha sob hahahahahahahadebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11701744720665792046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265758111946440722.post-9557149691050266542009-02-18T09:12:00.000-06:002009-02-18T09:12:00.000-06:00Ann must have been out of the room when I did my m...Ann must have been out of the room when I did my mini-intervention on you for your (incorrectly) reported system of organizing books according to color.<BR/><BR/>K recently asked how I selected books to be displayed in my living room (rather than in the office, where most of my bookshelf space is), and I told him that he would have to figure that one out on his own (it's really not difficult). A more exciting game for my next party might be to have guests figure out my organizational systems for my CDs and DVDs. Ann will not be allowed to participate, because I already explained it to her in great length (at least for the DVDs).Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00891080313862925535noreply@blogger.com