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Occasionally, not all the time, but occasionally, I have the best freaking job in the world.
For those of you in reader-land and not connected to any sort of personal Sara-info IV, I currently work at CTI Staffing, which means that every week I show up to a new conference center or hotel around the city and learn what is it I'm doing for the next four-odd days. I fly around by the seat of my pants a lot. I meet a lot of tech and finance companies. Occasionally I am accosted by strange persons. Occasionally I am bored out of my mind. Usually my feet hurt a lot and I smile like a cheery lobotomy patient.
Don't let the snarky fool you. I do genuinely enjoy this job. The last two days are a perfect example of why.
I have been working the Book Fair at the Javits Center, representing Titan Books. For those of you unfamiliar with that name, Titan Books is a UK-based published of TV and film companions and graphic novels. Like, oh, Modesty Blaise, James Bond, Star Trek, Firefly. I found out the name of the company thirty seconds before I got to the booth, and just had time to say "I swear I know that name" before I saw the stacks of Firefly companions and the bottom dropped out of my head.
In addition to working such a kick-ass booth, this is the Book Fair. People at CTI angle for this gig, and there's a good reason why. Free books. Every major publisher and hundreds of minor ones, and books everywhere for the taking. They pile in teetering stacks, they spill over the sides of baskets, they practically flow like water. This show takes over the entire enormous Javits Center, and every booth has books for the taking. Last night I almost broke my shoulder from the weight of the bag I was carrying.
So although I almost cried in pain when I sat down for the first time today at 5:30 pm, and though I've eaten nothing better than a slice of chocolate cake and a fruit smoothie, I have massive piles of new books and I spent the last two days in something akin to reader's paradise.
I'm going back tomorrow, I'm bringing a backpack, and there will be looting. Who wants free books? What a silly question. Everyone wants free books.
For those of you in reader-land and not connected to any sort of personal Sara-info IV, I currently work at CTI Staffing, which means that every week I show up to a new conference center or hotel around the city and learn what is it I'm doing for the next four-odd days. I fly around by the seat of my pants a lot. I meet a lot of tech and finance companies. Occasionally I am accosted by strange persons. Occasionally I am bored out of my mind. Usually my feet hurt a lot and I smile like a cheery lobotomy patient.
Don't let the snarky fool you. I do genuinely enjoy this job. The last two days are a perfect example of why.
I have been working the Book Fair at the Javits Center, representing Titan Books. For those of you unfamiliar with that name, Titan Books is a UK-based published of TV and film companions and graphic novels. Like, oh, Modesty Blaise, James Bond, Star Trek, Firefly. I found out the name of the company thirty seconds before I got to the booth, and just had time to say "I swear I know that name" before I saw the stacks of Firefly companions and the bottom dropped out of my head.
In addition to working such a kick-ass booth, this is the Book Fair. People at CTI angle for this gig, and there's a good reason why. Free books. Every major publisher and hundreds of minor ones, and books everywhere for the taking. They pile in teetering stacks, they spill over the sides of baskets, they practically flow like water. This show takes over the entire enormous Javits Center, and every booth has books for the taking. Last night I almost broke my shoulder from the weight of the bag I was carrying.
So although I almost cried in pain when I sat down for the first time today at 5:30 pm, and though I've eaten nothing better than a slice of chocolate cake and a fruit smoothie, I have massive piles of new books and I spent the last two days in something akin to reader's paradise.
I'm going back tomorrow, I'm bringing a backpack, and there will be looting. Who wants free books? What a silly question. Everyone wants free books.