i have a running e-mail that i send to myself every time someone mentions a book that i think i might like to try to get out of the library (as opposed to my wish list where i think i might buy it cause i'm trying to buy fewer books ( Read more... )

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
A. A. Milne

(you would think i would remember it...hell, you would think i would have embroidered it and framed it on my wall.)

...how you can start out trying to clean off the kitchen table and the next thing you know, you are reorganizing the spice rack and finding new ways to store all your tea?

i knew i had a copy of the maltese falconthe funny thing is that i had a very clear picture in my head of where it was and what it looked like. when i went to that shelf in that room, the books that looked like that were there but they were by other authors (bunch of books i inherited from my grandparents). the hammett turned out to be in another ( Read more... )

i found my copies of bending the landscape (both sf and fantasy). i have been looking since wiscon ( Read more... )

i've had this pair of shoes for six years, too.

(again this exciting fact was gleaned from reading an old post where i refer to them.)

the curse of being a completist is that, when you find out that a favorite author has two books out that you don't own, you contemplate buying them, even though you have yet to read the last book by them that you bought.

i just picked this up from firecat:

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)

truer words were never spoken!

i have a ton of t-shirts. they're in various conditions. ones that are in good condition--no stains or holes, cute something on the front, i can give away, no worries. but what about the rest of them ( Read more... )

my god i have a lot of pairs of beige linen pants that don't really fit me.