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bluelovesorangewhat's your self portrait of the day? How would you like to be remembered? Ideally I'd like to be remembered as the one with the ready quip and a wink, the one who almost always wore something black, the one who left crap messages on answering machines that started with a sigh and then ended with a bullet of I'llcallyoubacklaterokaybye!, the one with her nose in a book. The one that made you laugh.
But I suppose truthfully, I'd be the sleepy, crazy sticky-up hair girl who complained about her wobbly bits and ate her cereal with a lot of slosh and crunch and giggled too loud, and who played fast and loose with the rules of grammar.
And segues are for other people.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince arrived yesterday, the boxes are all stocked neat and tidy in columns in the back room and maybe I'll take a picture of them, but it is more tempting to just poke and poke and maybe one of them will fall over and maybe the tape will give and maybe a book will slide out.
And you know, maybe I will finally understand the male mind.
I am not signed up for the fun midnight party opening, L, B, A, and M all are (the lucky bastards), instead, JOY OF JOYS, I get to work the morning shift, from six o clock with my manager Kent. I'm still going to dress up, though, because damn it, my Ravenclaw tie (book version) is DAMN COOL. Have decided to veto the skirt though, so I will be dressed as a Hogwarts Boy. Or possibly Blaise. In Ravenclaw. Eh. It'll work.
But hey, have bridal shower this weekend, and then get to meet up with the fantabulous![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hostile17girl next week for Disneyland (hopefully Space Mountain will be unofficially open on our day, even though A said his brother (who works at the park) said nothing much has changed) but then I think A is just trying to wind me up.
Yesterday was the start of our Friends and Family weekend at the shop (I sent out some postcards to people, and naturally, forgot to sign my name, so if you got a purple postcard and wondered, 'I didn't sign up for spam!' well...um, it was me, and hey, 20% off your entire purchase is not a bad thing, considering some of the stuff you can find on sale/bargains, etc. Also, just manga.) and I went a little book happy and bought
Jane Austen's guide to dating by Lauren Henderson
Yes, yes, I know. I bought it mostly for the amusement factor, and because most of the dating/relationship books I've seen on the shelf are completely vile-sounding. The Rules? He's just not into you? Egh. No. It basically uses examples from Jane's novels and applies them to modern day relationship situations, and it's generally common sense with a bit of snark thrown in. Am halfway through it right now.
Lies my Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Once I saw this on the shelf and read the premise behind it, I knew I had to get it immediately - what gets left out of American history books. Ever since I've finished my history class, I've been renewing my interest in American history, and there's a lot of fascinating books out there written on what we got wrong or what we need to know to get a balanced look at our past and what would happen for our future, and I plan on buying all of them eventually (my little store actually carries them. Happiness. Of course, it also carries the ultra conservative view point as well, but to be truly fair and balanced....)
Also, apropos of nothing, I've decided that the president in our society is too much of a job for one man, which is why so many of them get it wrong...yes, there's the cabinet to consider, but if it's handpicked from like-minded men, its just corruption in varying levels of degrees. My least favorite presidents - Nixon, Hoover, Reagan, Bush, Bush Jr. (trickle down economics MY ASS. REAGAN-LITE), and I never really understood the appeal of JFK - was it because he was young and the potential of what might have been that was so attractive? Because policy wise and presidentially speaking...I didn't think he was very impressive.
How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
Not just a throw away line from Ewan Macgregor, no....a whole book! Pretty self explanatory.
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman
I like her books, and should really read more of them.
The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein by Miranda Webber
I can't take romance seriously with the half naked, clutching pose with artful hair and wind swept brow type of poses on the cover, or the big swirly script, so when I do read romance, I like them to be mixed with something - mystery, fantasy, history or in this case, humor and horror/mystery pastiche. I'm sensing Young Frankenstein out of this, but I guess ever since Katie Macallister started the vampire and quip and romance bit, there's a new niche that's steadily filling up?
Love Underground by Alicia Fields
More of the same, only its an exploration (even if it's frothy deep) of Persephone and Hades....etc, bad boys are Xblank.
I recently finished E. Sabin Rose's A School for Sorcery, which I picked up because the paperback cover art reminded me of Trina Schart Hyman's work (I've loved this illustrator ever since I picked up her picture books at age nine or whatever) and then started reading it because it was one of my favorite things - girl goes from unlikely background to study at magical boarding school (Hey, Harry isn't exactly new, is he?). There's shifting time lines, very funny side characters, and Tria the heroine is...well, awesome. There are hints of romance, but they don't overtake the book as they don't need to - what's important is Tria and her discovery of her magical capabilities. It's the 'second' in a trilogy of works, and the third one When the Beast Ravens is coming out this January in paperback. It all reminds me of Howl mixed with the Cecilia and Sorcery books, which makes them highly readable.
Am half way through Bruce Campbell's book. It is so bizarre, and very funny.
But I suppose truthfully, I'd be the sleepy, crazy sticky-up hair girl who complained about her wobbly bits and ate her cereal with a lot of slosh and crunch and giggled too loud, and who played fast and loose with the rules of grammar.
And segues are for other people.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince arrived yesterday, the boxes are all stocked neat and tidy in columns in the back room and maybe I'll take a picture of them, but it is more tempting to just poke and poke and maybe one of them will fall over and maybe the tape will give and maybe a book will slide out.
And you know, maybe I will finally understand the male mind.
I am not signed up for the fun midnight party opening, L, B, A, and M all are (the lucky bastards), instead, JOY OF JOYS, I get to work the morning shift, from six o clock with my manager Kent. I'm still going to dress up, though, because damn it, my Ravenclaw tie (book version) is DAMN COOL. Have decided to veto the skirt though, so I will be dressed as a Hogwarts Boy. Or possibly Blaise. In Ravenclaw. Eh. It'll work.
But hey, have bridal shower this weekend, and then get to meet up with the fantabulous
hostile17girl next week for Disneyland (hopefully Space Mountain will be unofficially open on our day, even though A said his brother (who works at the park) said nothing much has changed) but then I think A is just trying to wind me up.Yesterday was the start of our Friends and Family weekend at the shop (I sent out some postcards to people, and naturally, forgot to sign my name, so if you got a purple postcard and wondered, 'I didn't sign up for spam!' well...um, it was me, and hey, 20% off your entire purchase is not a bad thing, considering some of the stuff you can find on sale/bargains, etc. Also, just manga.) and I went a little book happy and bought
Jane Austen's guide to dating by Lauren Henderson
Yes, yes, I know. I bought it mostly for the amusement factor, and because most of the dating/relationship books I've seen on the shelf are completely vile-sounding. The Rules? He's just not into you? Egh. No. It basically uses examples from Jane's novels and applies them to modern day relationship situations, and it's generally common sense with a bit of snark thrown in. Am halfway through it right now.
Lies my Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Once I saw this on the shelf and read the premise behind it, I knew I had to get it immediately - what gets left out of American history books. Ever since I've finished my history class, I've been renewing my interest in American history, and there's a lot of fascinating books out there written on what we got wrong or what we need to know to get a balanced look at our past and what would happen for our future, and I plan on buying all of them eventually (my little store actually carries them. Happiness. Of course, it also carries the ultra conservative view point as well, but to be truly fair and balanced....)
Also, apropos of nothing, I've decided that the president in our society is too much of a job for one man, which is why so many of them get it wrong...yes, there's the cabinet to consider, but if it's handpicked from like-minded men, its just corruption in varying levels of degrees. My least favorite presidents - Nixon, Hoover, Reagan, Bush, Bush Jr. (trickle down economics MY ASS. REAGAN-LITE), and I never really understood the appeal of JFK - was it because he was young and the potential of what might have been that was so attractive? Because policy wise and presidentially speaking...I didn't think he was very impressive.
How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
Not just a throw away line from Ewan Macgregor, no....a whole book! Pretty self explanatory.
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman
I like her books, and should really read more of them.
The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein by Miranda Webber
I can't take romance seriously with the half naked, clutching pose with artful hair and wind swept brow type of poses on the cover, or the big swirly script, so when I do read romance, I like them to be mixed with something - mystery, fantasy, history or in this case, humor and horror/mystery pastiche. I'm sensing Young Frankenstein out of this, but I guess ever since Katie Macallister started the vampire and quip and romance bit, there's a new niche that's steadily filling up?
Love Underground by Alicia Fields
More of the same, only its an exploration (even if it's frothy deep) of Persephone and Hades....etc, bad boys are Xblank.
I recently finished E. Sabin Rose's A School for Sorcery, which I picked up because the paperback cover art reminded me of Trina Schart Hyman's work (I've loved this illustrator ever since I picked up her picture books at age nine or whatever) and then started reading it because it was one of my favorite things - girl goes from unlikely background to study at magical boarding school (Hey, Harry isn't exactly new, is he?). There's shifting time lines, very funny side characters, and Tria the heroine is...well, awesome. There are hints of romance, but they don't overtake the book as they don't need to - what's important is Tria and her discovery of her magical capabilities. It's the 'second' in a trilogy of works, and the third one When the Beast Ravens is coming out this January in paperback. It all reminds me of Howl mixed with the Cecilia and Sorcery books, which makes them highly readable.
Am half way through Bruce Campbell's book. It is so bizarre, and very funny.
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Date: 2005-07-09 10:52 am (UTC)that's what i heard in the pipeline
Date: 2005-07-09 11:19 am (UTC)Re: that's what i heard in the pipeline
Date: 2005-07-09 03:09 pm (UTC)also, M's working that day, drat it. and we'd be insane to go on friday, i'm sure.
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Date: 2005-07-09 09:57 pm (UTC)