Lately I've been running out of room for my books.

The books sit on bookshelves. They sit on top of my dresser. They sit on my windowsill. They sit under my TV, muscling out my DVDs. They sit on top of my kitchen cabinets.

So I've started thinking, maybe I should get rid of some of them. Surely, I can't need all these books, can I?

I scan the shelves, thinking of what books I can get rid of, and the first one that jumps out is a book of sheet music. Ironic, seeing as how I don't own or play an instrument. Heck, I don't even know know how to read sheet music!

But I remember buying the book back in high school. I liked this girl, let's call her Sally. And Sally liked Ben Folds Five. And I think she played piano (though I may be making that up), so I decided to buy Sally a book containing the sheet music for the Ben Folds Five album, Forever And Ever, Amen.

But Sally and I stopped talking (in the way that regularly happens in high school) before I could give her the book. And then high school ended. Now Sally is married and lives in the suburbs, and I'm still stuck with a book I've had since I was 15 and have never once looked at.

The hard option: I need to learn to throw out books.

The easy option: I need to move into a new place with more surfaces to put books on.