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I finally got a decent digital camera, so for those of you who want to know what my apartment looks like, here it is.

Swordage!

Just inside my apartment door. My dad originally made the rack for me to hang my bows from, but really, I think it works much better this way. Don't you?

Living space

When you've got a 500 square foot studio apartment, you gotta do what you can with your space. I sleep in the loft. The kitchen is through the doorway on the right. The telly is under the stairs to the loft, and the bathroom's behind all this lot.

Desk

My desk and my bookshelf- there will be a second bookshelf shortly, once I paint the darn thing and get it assembled. I still have way too many books to be strictly healthy.

Bathroom

Look, it's got a wooden ceiling!

... well, *I* like it that way...

Looking down from the loft

That's my dining table on the left and my couch up against the wall. The detritus on the table is, er, my electronics stuff; I'm teaching myself electronics from a book and feel no need to clean up between sessions.

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On seeing the awesome swordrack, my eyes were immediately drawn to the awesome hat.

Is it just the angle? Is it just my imperfect vision? Or does it really look like Indy Jones headgear?

It does sort of look like that, doesn't it? It's Australian, though. I bought it from an Australian goods store in San Antonio, Texas, when I was there for the Red Cross flood relief efforts in 2002; in San Antonio, at least, something like one out of every five Texans wears a cowboy hat as a matter of course, and I wanted to fit in at least a little. Not completely, since I don't like the cowboy look, but a little. The Aussie hats were in styles that I really liked, and looked close enough to what the locals wore to count, so I bought this one and have been wearing it to quite a lot of places including other Red Cross missions and my Alaska trip ever since. So it's not quite Indy's fedora, but it's in the same sort of spirit.

(I've got it on in this user icon. I pinned one edge back in an effort to duplicate the look I've seen on bush ranger hats, and to get it out of the way of my bowstring.)