Finally had my appointment...

And thus am feeling *much* better, now that I got three weeks' worth of emotional crud off my shoulders. Only catch is, I won't be seeing my therapist again for another four weeks, since she's on vacation, and then there's schedule conflicts the third week. I can manage in the meantime.

I know I've said I should stay away from Larry's Comics, but I nipped in to see if they had "Dead Boy Detectives", Jill Thompson's new manga-style "Sandman: Seasons of Mists" spin-off, which came out yesterday. Lo and behold, I walked in and practically put my hand on it. So, I got that and the August issue of "Hellblazer" (One extreme to the other: from kawaii to hellishly dark). They still had the Chibi!Death plushie, which was begging me with her big blue eyes to take her home... so I shook down my wallet and found the money for her. I'm letting my mother "confiscate" her for a few days, till Monday after the dental work, as a little incentive to .. I guess "keep my mouth shut" doesn't apply when you're trying to silence your whining over some dental work. That and the DVD of "Constantine" coming out Tuesday are my incentives/rewards for *not* grumbling. (I must sound like I'm disciplining/rewarding a child, but hey, I consider myself to be only a semi-adult, so I sometimes have to use parenting tactics when I'm dealing with myself.)

Some books had to be dropped off at the Tewksbury Library, so I hung around there a little while on the way home. They were giving away some used books, or "Beach Books" as they call them, thus I picked up a few: Brian Aldiss's "Helliconia Spring" (I like his short-story style, so I'm curious to see how he writes novels), Piers Anthony's "Killobyte" (a clever-looking novel dealing with VR games and diabetes... I've heard talk that Piers Anthony has a touch of Asperger's Syndrome, which makes me all the more curious to read his work), and the strategy guide/walk-through of a 1993 computer game, "King's Quest", which reads more like a novel than a strategy guide: makes me wanna find the software for the game, since I'm curious about computer games lately.

"I can resist everything except temptation..."

I *know* I posted, last night, that I was gonna wait till HP 6 came out in paperback, but well... I walked into work this afternoon and there, right inside the door, staring me in the face was a table-full of copies of HP 6, at $18.99 US, $11 US off the publisher's price. At that price, they're practically Giving it Away.I tried to resist, but then I got stuck bagging on a register within eyeshot of the table-full of books. My ability to resist quickly started eroding, so when I finally got my lunch break, I grabbed a copy: Hey, it was flying off the table. At the rate we were going, there was no way a copy would be left for me by the time the next payday comes... I read about four pages on my lunch break, and I'm about to go back and keep reading.

Yes, I had to dip into the money I'd set aside for the DVD of "Constantine": I'm still gonna get that on Tuesday, but I'll have to make myself a loan... Oh well! I'll manage, the way I usually do.