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I've reached THAT DAY today.
THAT DAY is the day every year when I look around my apartment, and then around my office, and in my car, and think to myself, "I cannot read another dogdamn young adult book." And you know, the books have been really good this year. I think I just need a week off. Even better? This is a good week to take off. ALA is over and new booklist nominations are in, but I still have plenty of time to read them.
But for those looking for a rec, keep an eye out for The Hunger Games. It lives up to all the hype and then some.
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I am one of those crazy people that stood in line for the iPhone 3G. And dear deity in Heaven, it was worth every second of the wait. Love, love technology. I was NOT the crazy guy that lined up at the AT&T store at 8 p.m. the night before opening, but I was there around 5 a.m. with my copy of Madapple (So. Amazing.) and a beach chair. I was about #30 in line, so I wasn't worried too much. By 7:30, there were 250 people in line, easily. Needless to say, they didn't all get phones. Ooooh, and there was almost a riot! Before the store opened, the employees counted their phones and then surveyed all the people in line to see what phone they wanted, so they would know where to cut the line off. Makes sense, right? The rule was one phone per person in line. However, about six people in front of me, a guy had brought a friend who had no intention of buying a phone. Said friend sold his spot in line to some sucker down around #150. The sucker wanted to buy a phone, which meant that the count done by the employees would have been off by one item, thus screwing the last guy in line.
This is New Jersey. You can imagine what happened when the last guy in line got wind of this. I was imagining the next day's Star-Ledger to have a headline like "Dumbass in iPhone line rouses mob of pasty Apple geeks." There were no beatings, but there was a lot of angry shouting. Thankfully, the manager did not let Sucker into the store to buy a phone.
Mine is the 16GB white. Now I need a case for it. I'm thinking purple, to go with my laptop bag.
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Thanks to dettiot, I think my spn_summergen fic just made a major turnaround in the direction of Viable, Maybe Even Good. Her best piece of advice: Stop wibbling over the fic for a few hours and go play Guitar Hero. It's amazing what a good practice session on "Stricken" (medium level) will do for your creativity.
Now: Going through my mail, getting the cat hair off my pants because I'm meeting an author at one of my libraries tonight and I don't want her to think I'm a total slob.
THAT DAY is the day every year when I look around my apartment, and then around my office, and in my car, and think to myself, "I cannot read another dogdamn young adult book." And you know, the books have been really good this year. I think I just need a week off. Even better? This is a good week to take off. ALA is over and new booklist nominations are in, but I still have plenty of time to read them.
But for those looking for a rec, keep an eye out for The Hunger Games. It lives up to all the hype and then some.
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I am one of those crazy people that stood in line for the iPhone 3G. And dear deity in Heaven, it was worth every second of the wait. Love, love technology. I was NOT the crazy guy that lined up at the AT&T store at 8 p.m. the night before opening, but I was there around 5 a.m. with my copy of Madapple (So. Amazing.) and a beach chair. I was about #30 in line, so I wasn't worried too much. By 7:30, there were 250 people in line, easily. Needless to say, they didn't all get phones. Ooooh, and there was almost a riot! Before the store opened, the employees counted their phones and then surveyed all the people in line to see what phone they wanted, so they would know where to cut the line off. Makes sense, right? The rule was one phone per person in line. However, about six people in front of me, a guy had brought a friend who had no intention of buying a phone. Said friend sold his spot in line to some sucker down around #150. The sucker wanted to buy a phone, which meant that the count done by the employees would have been off by one item, thus screwing the last guy in line.
This is New Jersey. You can imagine what happened when the last guy in line got wind of this. I was imagining the next day's Star-Ledger to have a headline like "Dumbass in iPhone line rouses mob of pasty Apple geeks." There were no beatings, but there was a lot of angry shouting. Thankfully, the manager did not let Sucker into the store to buy a phone.
Mine is the 16GB white. Now I need a case for it. I'm thinking purple, to go with my laptop bag.
--
Thanks to dettiot, I think my spn_summergen fic just made a major turnaround in the direction of Viable, Maybe Even Good. Her best piece of advice: Stop wibbling over the fic for a few hours and go play Guitar Hero. It's amazing what a good practice session on "Stricken" (medium level) will do for your creativity.
Now: Going through my mail, getting the cat hair off my pants because I'm meeting an author at one of my libraries tonight and I don't want her to think I'm a total slob.