Craft mania

I now have 31 paper cranes. I'm running out of space on my dressertop, and I won't likely have an excessive amount of surface to work with at Reed, so I need to think about a more compact display solution. I think I will make strings of them after all, while perhaps keeping a small collection of the newest ones loose.

The two newest ones were experiments in folding cranes as small as possible (and one-upping Dancing Physicist's efforts) and represent the lower limit of my interest in folding tiny cranes. They came from squares of paper 3/4 inch on a side, and their wingspan is 5/8 inch, so although I might be able to fold something a little smaller... there's no further aesthetic value in doing so, and they'd just get lost on the first stray breeze. My mom however suggested spraying with a fixative and making earrings out of the ones already folded and I love the idea. It also makes me consider making smaller versions of my neurotransmitter/drug molecules and making earrings out of those. Though I really don't need any more earrings. Actually, the challenge with that would be making the molecules hang nicely. Dopamine is the only one that has a shape I'm sure would work well as an earring. Maybe a dopamine and serotonin pair?

Move-in is just a week and a half away! I should start packing and cleaning. I've already been going through clothes, narrowing them down and creating a sensible organization system in my dresser. I think the battery or something in the pseudo-vacuum died, so I'll have to call GP if I can't find a plug on the thing. Looking around this place, I feel like I have so much stuff I need to get rid of some of it so it'll fit in my new room... but it all CAME from a dorm room, so really I don't need to worry, just get it all consolidated.