"Amelie"-esque Info and Impulse Shopping
May. 29th, 2005 07:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keladry_lupinKeladry doesn't like:
That steep, sickening angle of an airplane at takeoff
The silent, forty-five minute commute to work
Pulling the litterbox out of its corner, scooping it, and taking the trash out to the dumpster.
Keladry likes:
Updates on her favorite stories at Ashwinder
The view of the Pacific Ocean from the park on breezy or clear days
Ordering books online, receiving them in the mail, and finding a place for them on her bookshelves
*****
Though I didn't order books this time, oh, no. Last night, my intended one-stop for a book I'd ordered the previous week turned into a frenzy. I'd ordered my own copy of "Daddy Long-Legs," so that the Orange County Public Library could have theirs back (yes, it's overdue, and I'm the one that dog-eared all those pages, yes, it was ME!), but then I just HAD to go look for the three Austen books I don't already have. I own S&S, P&P, and Emma, but when I saw a copy of "Northanger Abbey," I realized that I didn't have it or "Persuasion" or "Mansfield Park." Shame on me, so I grabbed copies and, on another impulse, a copy of "The Jane Austen Book Club" from the new-on-paperback sales table. Add to that a copy of the "Comma Sutra" from the impulse table by the cash registers, and my one-book trip became six. Not bad for a grand total of five minutes. Steven just shook his head; he knows my addictions for books and reading/writing fanfiction. He loves me anyway.
Yes, I said "Comma Sutra." Following in the wake of Lynne Truss' "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," Dr Laurie Rozakis has written a book about proper grammar. I've skimmed through it a bit, and I've chuckled a bit thus far.
*****
Today's music is by the B52s. It's just a kind of mellow, groovy cruise. The bass guitar, played by Sara Lee, leads with the melody, and everything else, even Kate and Cindy's singing, is backup.
That steep, sickening angle of an airplane at takeoff
The silent, forty-five minute commute to work
Pulling the litterbox out of its corner, scooping it, and taking the trash out to the dumpster.
Keladry likes:
Updates on her favorite stories at Ashwinder
The view of the Pacific Ocean from the park on breezy or clear days
Ordering books online, receiving them in the mail, and finding a place for them on her bookshelves
*****
Though I didn't order books this time, oh, no. Last night, my intended one-stop for a book I'd ordered the previous week turned into a frenzy. I'd ordered my own copy of "Daddy Long-Legs," so that the Orange County Public Library could have theirs back (yes, it's overdue, and I'm the one that dog-eared all those pages, yes, it was ME!), but then I just HAD to go look for the three Austen books I don't already have. I own S&S, P&P, and Emma, but when I saw a copy of "Northanger Abbey," I realized that I didn't have it or "Persuasion" or "Mansfield Park." Shame on me, so I grabbed copies and, on another impulse, a copy of "The Jane Austen Book Club" from the new-on-paperback sales table. Add to that a copy of the "Comma Sutra" from the impulse table by the cash registers, and my one-book trip became six. Not bad for a grand total of five minutes. Steven just shook his head; he knows my addictions for books and reading/writing fanfiction. He loves me anyway.
Yes, I said "Comma Sutra." Following in the wake of Lynne Truss' "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," Dr Laurie Rozakis has written a book about proper grammar. I've skimmed through it a bit, and I've chuckled a bit thus far.
*****
Today's music is by the B52s. It's just a kind of mellow, groovy cruise. The bass guitar, played by Sara Lee, leads with the melody, and everything else, even Kate and Cindy's singing, is backup.
