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matrixrefugee) wrote2005-08-13 01:02 am
matrixrefugee) wrote2005-08-13 01:02 am
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All Over the Place
I'm turning in early tonight: I've had a looong busy day.
Started out with going to Lowell, intending to get some computer work done at the MCC Library. Only to find the place was Closed, though the sign they'd hung up on a rope across the steps was backwards and I had to turn it around to read it.
So, I ended up using one of the eeeexxxtrrrrreeeemmmmeeeellllyyy sssslllloooowwww computers at the Pollard Library downtown. And since a bunch of kids were using the regular comps for internet access, I had to use one of the "E-Mail Only" comps, which meant I had only fifteen minutes to check my email. Of course I used up that scant amount of time, waiting for the dumb thing to load the pages, so I only got a couple items printed out for my mother.
I also picked up "Legends II", edited by Robert Silverberg, which features a dozen novellas by contemporary sci-fi/fantasy writers, specifically spin-offs of their best-known novels. The reason I got it: there's a spin-off of "American Gods" in it. Cool! And a nice way to prepare for the release of "Anansi Boys"... I think I have a teeny idea for a fanfic come out of it, but it's only an idea as yet... ::Uses her snazzy new "American Gods" icon::
I managed to squeeze in a trip to the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store. Bought a hardback copy of Clive Cussler's "Sahara" (with the binding intact! ::memories of having trouble getting that a copy of that book with an intact spine out of the library:: ) and a shirt for my John Constantine costume for Boskone next year. It's a white Brooks Brothers, no less: a $100 US shirt, which I bought for 99 cents. I already have the pants and the oxfords (and the attitude, if I'm in the proper pissed-off frame of mind, which is about half the time anyway...), and I thought I had the jacket when I was looking among the suit jackets, only the pockets were wrong: the openings were vertical when they should be horizontal (yes, I'm a stickler for details). Besides the jacket, I just need the wristwatch and the tie; you'd think finding a black tie at a thrift shop would be easy. Nope: I looked, but all I could find were *LOUD* paisley ones. John Nash's line in "A Beautiful Mind" came to my thoughts: "There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad your tie is." I guess guys keep their black ties and get rid of the ugly ones. Ah well, I'll try again.
And speaking of Constantine, I finally typed and posted the next-to-the-last chapter of "The Smoke of Satan...", this after putting in a gruelling shift at work: Non-stop bagging, no breaks to do overstock or breaking down aisles. Ah well, I needed the exercise.
Short shift tomorrow: 6 to closing (9.30-ish), which should net me some time to get some writing and hopefully some typing in, around housecleaning.
Started out with going to Lowell, intending to get some computer work done at the MCC Library. Only to find the place was Closed, though the sign they'd hung up on a rope across the steps was backwards and I had to turn it around to read it.
So, I ended up using one of the eeeexxxtrrrrreeeemmmmeeeellllyyy sssslllloooowwww computers at the Pollard Library downtown. And since a bunch of kids were using the regular comps for internet access, I had to use one of the "E-Mail Only" comps, which meant I had only fifteen minutes to check my email. Of course I used up that scant amount of time, waiting for the dumb thing to load the pages, so I only got a couple items printed out for my mother.
I also picked up "Legends II", edited by Robert Silverberg, which features a dozen novellas by contemporary sci-fi/fantasy writers, specifically spin-offs of their best-known novels. The reason I got it: there's a spin-off of "American Gods" in it. Cool! And a nice way to prepare for the release of "Anansi Boys"... I think I have a teeny idea for a fanfic come out of it, but it's only an idea as yet... ::Uses her snazzy new "American Gods" icon::
I managed to squeeze in a trip to the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store. Bought a hardback copy of Clive Cussler's "Sahara" (with the binding intact! ::memories of having trouble getting that a copy of that book with an intact spine out of the library:: ) and a shirt for my John Constantine costume for Boskone next year. It's a white Brooks Brothers, no less: a $100 US shirt, which I bought for 99 cents. I already have the pants and the oxfords (and the attitude, if I'm in the proper pissed-off frame of mind, which is about half the time anyway...), and I thought I had the jacket when I was looking among the suit jackets, only the pockets were wrong: the openings were vertical when they should be horizontal (yes, I'm a stickler for details). Besides the jacket, I just need the wristwatch and the tie; you'd think finding a black tie at a thrift shop would be easy. Nope: I looked, but all I could find were *LOUD* paisley ones. John Nash's line in "A Beautiful Mind" came to my thoughts: "There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad your tie is." I guess guys keep their black ties and get rid of the ugly ones. Ah well, I'll try again.
And speaking of Constantine, I finally typed and posted the next-to-the-last chapter of "The Smoke of Satan...", this after putting in a gruelling shift at work: Non-stop bagging, no breaks to do overstock or breaking down aisles. Ah well, I needed the exercise.
Short shift tomorrow: 6 to closing (9.30-ish), which should net me some time to get some writing and hopefully some typing in, around housecleaning.