… and it’s a little bit scary.<\/p>\n
The way my main room is now set up is: There are two doors that get you into the room (both are open doorways). One is from the kitchen, and one is from the hallway that leads to my front door. As it stands now, my desk (which I put together myself – I ROCK) stands against the wall across from my bed, which is a great spot for it theoretically, except for the fact that when I sit at the desk, I can look to my left, out the doorway, and see all the way to the front door.<\/p>\n
Now, I’m not a feng shui expert, and I don’t even know what I’m talking about here, but I do know this: I rarely feel like sitting at my desk. There’s something about the configuration of it, there’s something about being able to see the front door at all times which just … doesn’t … work. I want my desk to be a place where I can sit, and work. My apartment is small, but I have enough wiggle-room to know that the desk needs to be moved.<\/p>\n
I know where it must be moved: to the wall where my Bookshelf # 6<\/a> now stands. If my desk is there, then there is no doorway leading outward, to the left or right hand side. My desk will be up against the wall, and my back will be to the rest of the room, and something about that configuration in my mind is very pleasing and right to me.<\/p>\n Call it feng shui, call it spatial relations, call it whatever you want to call it … I feel distinctly restless when I sit at my desk now. I do not think that you should always have a view of your own front door in the very place where you want to lose yourself in your work. No. It’s too tempting. The energy is wrong. The front door summons me in moments of writer’s block: “Come! It’s a beautiful day! Leave the apartment! Go!”<\/p>\n I get weird about change, though … and this will be a rather huge project. I must remove all the books from Bookshelf #6, pull it away from the wall to make room, and then empty my entire desk (of my computer, my plants, my office supplies) – and then move the massive desk to the other wall.<\/p>\n I need help.<\/p>\n My friend Jen is coming over to help me re-arrange everything. I feel strangely nervous but strangely excited. A new outlook, a new perspective, and hopefully a feng shui-approved workspace will now be set up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … and it’s a little bit scary. The way my main room is now set up is: There are two doors that get you into the room (both are open doorways). One is from the kitchen, and one is from … Continue reading