Study Clutter

See, this is why I have to live alone: when I'm in the depths of trying to finish course work, I spread everything out everywhere, and I don't like cleaning it all up until I'm done. I'd rather have everything in place so that when I get home or when I have a few spare moments, I can just get to work. Since my kitchen/dining room/living room is really all one big room (well, there is a counter dividing the kitchen from the living room, but it's still an open area) you can see all the clutter at once!

Right now, my dining room table is covered in World Religions books, including an open binder and textbook, ready for me to return to work. There's also a pencil case spilling pencils and pens out onto the table, a roll of tape, and an open pencil box with pencil crayons. On the wall behind the table is a New Testament timeline that I'm slowly filling in.

The coffee table in the living room has all the books for the two Bible studies I'm involved in, which means there are three notebooks, a Bible study book and study guide, and a commentary on Romans (and usually there's a Bible there as well).

The desk (which is between the dining room table and the couch, in that space I call the office) usually has the laptop on it along with various bits of paper that need my attention; however, often enough the computer ends up on the desk chair (okay, the dining room chair that I use as a desk chair) so that I can use it when I'm sitting on the floor.

The floor is the worst. All the other places you would at least expect to see books (well, you would if you know me at all!). The thing is, I like working on the floor; in fact, that's where I am now as I type this. I was researching feasts in the gospels and Acts for NT Chronology until I decided I'd found enough of them. Anyway, NT Chronology requires a lot of research in a lot of different books to answer the questions (and fill in the timeline), and that's the course I work on in the middle of the floor. I am currently surrounded by: one open binder, 2 stacks of notes printed off the computer, 11 books, one pencil (no wait, that's actually behind my ear right now), one pencil sharpener, and, somewhere in there, I know there's a pen. Oh, and there's a bag of goldfish crackers.

Yeah...so, if you want to visit, all I ask for is fair warning so I can at least stack up the books and make it look tidier!