Of vacuuming and other things

[hawkwing_lb]

Today the vacuum cleaner went on fire.

I blame the cat hair, personally.

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Chez-hawkwing_lb is ground zero for ongoing panic. Freshers' Week starts a week from Monday.

College! Back! Monsters! Help!

…Ahem. So I'm in the midst of intense reorganisation. Which includes shelving, filing, cataloguing, finding and in general tidying the accumulated detritus of --

-- well, quite a while.

One printer has already given up its life to the cause, and today saw the sacrifice of the vacuum cleaner to the cleaning gods. I dread to think what casualties might follow.

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Yes, I have been reading. No, I haven't been blogging about it. I will say that I finished two of the best books I've read this year (a list already featuring Bear's Blood and Iron, Brust's Orca and Issola, and Monette's The Virtu) last week: Jo Walton's Farthing and Alma Alexander's The Secrets of Jin-Shei.

And watched the best film I've seen this year: a German production by the name of Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage . Excellent.

Further details when I have time to write them. :)

Comments

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Who knew that cat hair was flammable? ;-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Arsonists? Vacuum cleaners? ;)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Firefighters? Birds? ;-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Whichever :). I must inform you, however, that burnt vacuum cleaner smells bad. I mean, really.

:)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing that bit of information. I plan to just take your word for it and not try it myself. :-p ;-) It reminds me of the "blue-collar" comedian -- I think it was Jeff Foxworthy -- who described how men will deliberately smell bad things just to one-up each other.

I've smelled* bad things before and don't need to impress anyone. ;-)

Any chance of replacing burnt vacuum cleaner with a clean non-smelling one?

*To me, smelt is a fish. ;-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Well, as vacuum cleaner is burnt and non-functional - the motor started smoking and making vrrr-whrrr-cough noises - we're going to have to, aren't we?

*drowns in dust*

;)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

"*drowns in dust*"

Wouldn't a dust mask help you there? After all, if a scuba mask helps you not drown under water, surely a dust mask will prevent you drowing in dust.

Well, dust is organic, so it's natural, right? ;-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Dust is toxic organic?

What kind of dust do you people get in America?

;)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

This kind of dust. The cute kind. Not at all like the stuff BBC shows.

Niiiice dust.

Besides, everyone knows that organic is natural and therefore is good for you. Breathe more dust!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Riiiight.

:)