You guys are scaring me. :lol:
Ok, so in a consession to form over function, my desk is currently against the slanted wall. Even this isn't TOO bad - juist getting my monitors a bit further away from my head and up to ear level seems to have helped somewhat.
I'm thinking, though, that once I finish tracking for the album I'm working on, I might rearrange the room for a couple weeks to get my desk in front of that alcove. IT looks like it'll fit well enough, and if I just move my bed along the same wall to be right next to the closet it shouldn't screw with too much else. I could just do that now, but doing so would eat up most of the usable space in the room (to walk in, you'd have to basically walk along the perimeter of the wall to get around the bed, before a space opened up) so I'd rather just do it for a few weeks at a time while mixing, and leave it as is most of the time.
Re: drums - my old roommate whose room this used to be used to keep a drum set in here. I don't own one myself, so it'll be the same sort of deal, where when it's time to track drums I'll just move my bed (probably just lean the mattress up against the wall - it's not an ideal bass trap, I'm sure, but I'd imagine the mattress and box spring would help a little), set up the drumkit, and go to down. Then, when we're done, break down and return the room to normal.
That's the thought, anyway.