Brandeis book sale!
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mayhapToday was the first half price day at the Brandeis book sale in Shawnee Mission, KS. I went and blew another $25 on books. (Yeah, another. I went there for the first time on Saturday, which was the first day that I didn't need to wear a gauze mustache taped to my face to staunch the bleeding, although I did bleed in a more restrained manner on several tissues during my perusal of the books and then I got a headache and needed to go home and lie down some more.)
The Brandeis University Libraries do these great used book sales all over the U.S., although tragically I cannot seem to find any kind of complete listing of locations for you, so you will have to figure out for yourself if there is one near you. Ours is in this incredibly run-down old mall--every year there are fewer stores, and there were just a handful to begin with, so I keep expecting to walk in some day and find a bunch of empty storefronts and the Christian Science Reading Room. They have tables and tables and tables of books, which are basically organized according to genre, except genre is sort of vague to begin with, and then you have things like Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret in the religion section, and all the books people have discarded on random tables, and so you have to obsessively comb every single table for precious finds.
... Or maybe that's just me.
Anyway, half-price days are glorious, but they are nothing as compared to Box Day. Buy a box for $5, run around filling it with books. You don't even need a good reason. You can get books because they have pretty pictures, or because the author's name is kind of cool, or because they are made out of paper.
Box Day is Saturday. Pray for my soul. Or at least my bookshelves. Or something.
The Brandeis University Libraries do these great used book sales all over the U.S., although tragically I cannot seem to find any kind of complete listing of locations for you, so you will have to figure out for yourself if there is one near you. Ours is in this incredibly run-down old mall--every year there are fewer stores, and there were just a handful to begin with, so I keep expecting to walk in some day and find a bunch of empty storefronts and the Christian Science Reading Room. They have tables and tables and tables of books, which are basically organized according to genre, except genre is sort of vague to begin with, and then you have things like Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret in the religion section, and all the books people have discarded on random tables, and so you have to obsessively comb every single table for precious finds.
... Or maybe that's just me.
Anyway, half-price days are glorious, but they are nothing as compared to Box Day. Buy a box for $5, run around filling it with books. You don't even need a good reason. You can get books because they have pretty pictures, or because the author's name is kind of cool, or because they are made out of paper.
Box Day is Saturday. Pray for my soul. Or at least my bookshelves. Or something.
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Take it easy
Date: 2004-08-05 11:41 pm (UTC)I wish you much success at some glorious finds.
I have been reading about your post-surgery steps. I myself only had the guaze taped under my nose the day of the surgery. I remember waking up in the recovery room and freaking out because I was told there would be nothing on the exterior on my nose. I apparently swore at the team in the recovery. (such shame...it was like swearing at my own Mother as she was a surgical nurse who worked also in the recovery room)
As for me I had no tubes but rather guaze packing in my nose until the day I was released. That moment when the finally took that stuff out was such a glorious moment in my life. It was all I could think about after the surgery. Sometimes it is the simple things that seem so huge.
Re: Take it easy
Date: 2004-08-06 12:09 am (UTC)She also had basically the same surgery eight years ago, and she had the gauze packing, which she remembered with much lack of fondness. When she asked the doctor about it at my pre-surgery appointment, she said that basically the consensus was that everyone hated it and it was more trouble than it was worth. This was happy news, indeed.
I'm definitely still doing a lot of sitting around, interspersed with some lying around, for variety. At least now I have books to read while I do it. Er, more books, I mean ... ;)
I gather your
Date: 2004-08-06 12:29 am (UTC)Keep at it!