Putting books on shelves is one of the most fun EVER things to do. Even if it has to be negotiated around the schedule of a cranky baby, who currently sleeps in the room full of bookcases & books to be moved. Which means that all clearing of shelves, moving of shelves, and filling carry bags/boxes with books to haul out, has to be done while she is awake.

You may already have spotted the flaw in this plan, which is that awake baby is awake, and does not particularly like sharing Mummy with books, and of course Daddy is needed too for the actual moving of bookshelves… thank goodness for the playpen. I would thank goodness harder if cranky baby was capable of sitting in said playpen for more than ten minutes before cottoning on to the fact that everyone else is having fun doing things outside the playpen, and screaming the house down.

So far I have a whole bookcase devoted to YA, and another one with an Ancient Rome shelf, a kids book shelf, a pretty old fashioned hardback shelf, an awesome specfic trade paperbacks shelf and several glorious empty shelves.

I have not yet dealt emotionally with the fact that I had more books that could comfortably fit on said shelves BEFORE the move started, and thus there are going to be some left over at the end of this process. Do not speak of it.

I managed to write 2000 words yesterday, again to the schedule of cranky baby. She is napping less, and needs more personal entertainment during her awake time, which is hard on the stay-at-home-writer, but it’s good to know I can kick into a reasonably medium gear on the last work day of the week if I need to.

After listening to the Underwater Menace on my iPod all week (a story I knew almost nothing about – fish people! Atlanteans! A mad scientist who wants to blow up the world because dude I’m a scientist who wouldn’t want to do that? I had so much fun that I decided to hunt down one of those fan-put-together telesnap audios I had heard was floating around the web and have been enjoying the Faceless Ones, another that I knew almost little about. I can categorically state that Pauline Collins would have been an appalling Doctor Who companion despite me having loved her in just about everything else she’s ever done, and I miss Ben and Polly already.

Further listening has brought me to the Bridging the Rift special episode about Chicks Dig Time Lords which is brilliant and interesting, and includes two of the book’s contributors. I’ve also really enjoyed some of the CoolShite on the Tube shows recently, especially their Rocky Horror soundtrack episode and their ridiculously involved and detailed review of Adventures of Power. Who knew there was so much to say about air drumming?

Tags: bookshelves, doctor who, listening, podcasts, saturnalia, writing