Visit from the Cleaning Demon
Once a year the Cleaning Demon appears in my apartment and tempts me with the idea that I can transform my hovel into a neat, well-organized, color-coordinated space. My weekend passed in a seizure of house cleaning.
First I organized my cables, wires, chargers and adaptors drawer. I envy my gay friends whose gadgets are kept out of sight in drawers. Problem: I don’t have a drawer for my cables, etc. (Why do gay people have so much more closet and drawer space than the rest of us?) So I went to the P88 Japan home store and got a plastic box to store my cables in. (Fortunately the Cleaning Demon was not accompanied by the Free-Spending Demon.)
It’s clear plastic so I can see what’s in it. This should foil my cat Saffy’s attempts to chew up USB cables, etc, at least until she figures out how to open the box.
Then came the real challenge: I decided to catalogue all my books and cut my library down to 1,000 volumes. That’s the subject of my next column. 48 hours later I am exhausted but smug. The culled volumes will go to public libraries; my friend the BLB kindly offered to transport them. I kept some books to give away to readers.
Want a free book from this basket? You have to be able to claim it in Makati in the next two weeks, or have someone who can claim the book for you. Post a Comment under this entry, name three books you’ve enjoyed recently, and we’ll use our psychic powers to figure out which book in this basket you might like. No, you can’t choose for yourself, and if you do you’re not getting one. Stay tuned for the matches.
Update: At this point there are more entries than books to give away, so some of you (a dozen or so) will get email later this week telling you how to claim your book. If you don’t get a book this time around, it means there’s no book that matches your reading list or there are not enough books, but you’ll still be on file for the next round.
P.S. If your pet won a prize in our Pets Make Us Human contest and you have not claimed it yet, could you drop us a line in Comments below to let us know you’re still interested?
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June 13th, 2009 at 07:22
my three most recent favorites are:
The Stranger- Albert Camus
Forbidden Fruit: Women Write the Erotic (edited by Tina Cuyugan)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman- Haruki Murukami
June 16th, 2009 at 15:40
Aabot pa ba ito?
3 books I recently finished reading…
1. walong diwata ng pagkahulog – edgar calabia samar
2. ultraviolins – khavn dela cruz
3. the bedroom secrets of the master chefs – irvine welsh
June 17th, 2009 at 13:57
My recent favorites:
1. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
2. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and other Stories by Tim Burton
3. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
June 26th, 2009 at 07:23
1) the coffin dancer by jeffery deaver
2) r is for ricochet by sue grafton
3) kapitan sino by bob ong
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