Hooray for Craigslist!

“I’m getting a bookshelf! I’m getting a bookshelf!”

I’ve been browsing Craigslist recently in order to see if I could find anything funky and neat for the new apartment or, at least, listings for garage sales and the like.  Today, though? I’m picking up this:

I am probably entirely too excited for a $20 used bookshelf, but I’m pretty sure my ginormous Oxford English Dictionary will fit on it, which will free up a lot of space on my other bookshelves.  Even with that space, though, I’m probably going to have to buy another set of bookshelves to match the ones I already have.

When it comes to moving, though, that’s the one thing I’m not looking forward to moving–all the books.  I’ve already packed four boxes of books, and I haven’t even touched the books in my office or in the family room yet.  It’s never a fun process, moving, but it’s even less fun for a bibliophile–not only are books heavy dead-weight, but packing and unpacking them takes forever as well.  Still, despite all of my grumbling, I really am looking forward to moving; while the process will be a pain in the ass, it will be nice to become more fully invested in the graduate school and social lives I’ve slowly begun at school.  Plus, this year, I’m the social chair of the English Graduate Organization, so living near campus will make that aspect of the year go a lot better.

Edit: Boo for me, as I completely misjudged the size of that bookcase and the OED definitely won’t fit on it.  Ah, well.  Perhaps I’ll use it for the materials related to my thesis.