So I need to vent and I don't know where/how else to do it ( Read more... )

Hello, all ( Read more... )

I had the weirdest dream last night ( Read more... )

[this entry cross-posted to the booksellers community]

Dear comrades,

I am a long-time employee of the bookstore named after two people. I got into a debate with two of my managers today over the fairness of automatic renewal [AR]. For those of you not in the loop, automatic renewal refers to a process whereby customers who have purchased one of our ( Read more... )

Since everyone who reads this works/worked for the same company...

Automatic renewal: friend or foe?

[more on this topic soon]

Stolen from turtleofwrath :

If there is someone on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

I am a procrastinator.

A horrible, no good, lollygagging, time-wasting staller.

What do I do?

I worked this morning.  Five hours.  Just shelving.  An uneventful shift, passed entirely by placing books on a shelf, one after the other, with the occasional phone call or customer thrown in.  I was left entirely alone, and the freedom seemed to make the time go by faster.  I was surprised when noon came and I found myself leaving.

I called my ( Read more... )

I was thinking of e-mailing Oprah about her James Frey smackdown [did you see that??]. I had gone to the Oprah website, to the contact form, and I had filled out the required information. The window is titled "E-MAIL THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW ( Read more... )

Hello.

I am sorry I have not been online much.  I have been trying to dig myself out of the class reading hole I am in.  I am getting there, but it's a slow process.  I'm working on it.

Last Saturday, I went with Michael to see Brokeback Mountain at the movies [this is the first movie I've seen in more than a year].  Let's just say that it knocked ( Read more... )