New stuff

Yesterday was horrible. Just plain horrible. And I don't mean the studying for the bar part, I mean the lugging the furniture up and down the stairs part. I am not going to bore you with all the gory details of how we had to throw out the old non-functioning air conditioner (which involved carrying it down 3 flights of stairs), buy a new portable (read: GIGANTIC) air conditioner, and carry IT up the 3 flights of stairs. Not to mention the purchase of (what we thought were) black/brown book shelves from IKEA, and the carrying of THEM up 3 flights of stairs, only to open the box and realize that we inadvertantly picked up white book shelves instead of the black/brown ones. That discovery was followed by our return to IKEA (which yes, you guessed it - necessitated carrying the unbelievably heavy shleves down the stairs - yes 3 flights of them), and exchanging for the correct shelves and for the LAST TIME carrying them up the stairs. But, regardless, it was all worth it, and without further adieu, I present our new book shelves:



I realize it's not very exciting from looking at this picture, and perhaps my excitement is a tad heightened by all the manual labor I had to undergo, but I still think that they are much more beautiful in real life.