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alexist at 12:06am on 31/07/2003
alexist at 12:06am on 31/07/2003Picked everything up, put away the various books & papers scattered around, dusted the furniture, ironed the clean sheets and put them on.
I know it's totally anal and ridiculous to iron sheets. Every week (ok, sometimes 10 days) when I do it, i think about how stupid it is and how much time I waste on it. It gives me a certain weird satisfaction, though. Cleaning and cooking do that. I don't understand myself. I always thought (or was raised to think) that being intelligent meant you were supposed to do things that stretched your mind, and actually doing things was somehow not good enough. That's one of the reasons I never thought of something like cooking as a career--I was a smart girl, therefore I should go to college and write papers and get a nice white-collar job. I'm not necessarily putting that down, but it can be a very limiting way of thinking.
I know it's totally anal and ridiculous to iron sheets. Every week (ok, sometimes 10 days) when I do it, i think about how stupid it is and how much time I waste on it. It gives me a certain weird satisfaction, though. Cleaning and cooking do that. I don't understand myself. I always thought (or was raised to think) that being intelligent meant you were supposed to do things that stretched your mind, and actually doing things was somehow not good enough. That's one of the reasons I never thought of something like cooking as a career--I was a smart girl, therefore I should go to college and write papers and get a nice white-collar job. I'm not necessarily putting that down, but it can be a very limiting way of thinking.
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It has occured to me lately that I would actually make a damned good secretary/PA. I can type like a demon, I'm polite, I LIKE running things to a timetable and bossing people around, and I'm intelligent enough to do things off my own bat without having to be constantly supervised. But that's not the done job for someone with a science degree, half a masters, and hoping to do a PhD for fun, so I'll probably never do it.
Bloody stupid though, I'd probably be better at that than I am at acoustics ;) At least it gives me an option for when I head back to Cornwall!
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For the fitted sheet, start on a corner. Hook it onto the corner of the flat end of the board, and smooth the side along the end of the board. Iron the side that way, and rotate till you get back to the original corner. You'll have done the whole perimeter of the sheet. Now you can do the whole flat centre (be careful not to leave a wrinkly "seam"--where the top and side of the mattress would meet if it were put on the bed.
Ok, it's official: I am Martha, but less faux-WASP. And without the découpage.
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Neither is ideal though. I want to be an academic.