Words and supermarkets

[sartorias]

madrobins says it so very well here:
http://madrobins.livejournal.com/191374.html

I am an extremely fast reader, but wow, I am more behind every day.  I resort to cheating on my timer, then am furious with myself for not getting to my list of tasks, but people are so fascinating, and it's all right

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[faerie_writer]

I love reading all the livejournal news too. But it's getting harder and harder to keep up as my flist keeps growing. :)

[sartorias]

*sigh* yes.

[scribblerworks]

Oh! I agree. I suddenly realized about a week ago that I didn't really have to mutually befriend everyone who put me on their friends list. I might click to their pages occasionally, but I don't actually need to add them to my daily (sometimes several times a day) visit to "My Friends" page. Heh.

Even so, the viral nature of widening one's circle just keeps happening. Someone (like Sartorias) will point to someone else's LJ, and you find a voice that resonates with you, and bang! you're hooked on yet another thing to read.

Still... it's better than being bored and having nothing to do.
:-)

[sartorias]

Oh, the sheer luxury of having nothing to do!

But yeah.

[jennifergale]

I'm also one of those who is overwhelmed by stuff in stores. Wal Mart scares me more than Costco and the Supermaket. Almost everything in Wal Mart is horrible junk that will not last in a home for longer than five years. The towels snag, the clothes disintegrate in the wash, and don't get me started on the seasonal aisles or the furniture. Every single time I enter that store, I think of the dump.

and then I get anxious because I am hyper-aware of the fragility of the infrastructure

And here I must confess...when I learned we were moving into the middle of nowhere, into a land where wheat and barley grows well, I was relieved. If something happens, I know that we can make it. I think that's why I learned how to can. I feel this drive to learn the old survival skills and to teach them to my kids. I'm not paranoid (I think), but I don't like how dependent our infrastructure is on oil, and...well, who knows what might happen. Dang. That does sound paranoid.

[danceswithwaves]

Does it count as paranoia if it's possible? Oil...is not an unlimited resource, to say the least.

I agree about Walmart. Sometimes Cosco scares me, to see how it caters to our "buy everything and lots of it" mentality, but Cosco also caters business that actually do need that much stuff -- and most of it is food or useful things like tissues and cleaning supplies. Walmart scares me pretty much all the time. It just looks like junk.

[sartorias]

You've been busy. I am surprised and flattered that you dropped by her at all, much less tried to parse my spaghetti knot prose.

[karenthology]

I have a smartphone that allows me to read all sorts of things; I can take it everywhere, and it's made staying in touch over LiveJournal (and reading lovely, lovely Project Gutenberg!) quite a lark. But it's not the *perfect* device for eyestrain, and you'd probably be better off with a Palm, in that case.

When I had my journal shakeup, not everyone followed to the new 'personal' one, and that's all right with me. But I find I garner far fewer comments than I once did, and I miss it. So, I comment on everybody else's stuff. And, like someone on the 'net recently said, get involved in distributing LJ's currency of unsolicited advice.

Er. I hope you're having a lovely day!

(Also, I think there's a story in that thar supermarket... :) )

[sartorias]

Someone else will have to write the supermarket story, as I hate feeling helpless enough to not want to propagate the anxiety. Adventure for me!

It's a WONDERFUL day--gray and gloomy and moist and COOL! We've had almost nine inches of rain, an absolute miracle. (Last year just under two, and the year before about four.) I love it, and more to come, woo hoo!

Yeah--I once had a journal that I dropped, before I started this one. But I learned something.

[mmegaera]

Supermarkets don't bother me -- I can put my blinders on, take my list and ignore all the premade nutritionless crap. Probably 80% of my food comes from the periphery of the store (where the meat, produce, dairy, and other things that don't make as much profit for the store are), not the aisles (where all the junk is -- admittedly, I do make forays for pasta, frozen vegetables, and the occasional jar of applesauce [g]).

What bothers me, always have and always will, are department stores. I don't know if it's the sheer amount of conspicuous consumption or just how much things cost there, but I've been known to have a minor panic attack just walking into Nordstroms.

[sartorias]

Yes. (I don't even go into them any more. It's been ages since I bought a piece of clothing that way--I wear my spouse's and daughter's rejects, and coax my old stuff through yet another year.)

emerald wand of oz

[anonymous]

are there going to be any more oz books? I LOVE them!

signed,
a big fan
claire c.
age 12
CA, USA

Re: emerald wand of oz

[sartorias]

There was one more, called "Trouble Under Oz."

The third one got written ("Sky Pyrates Over Oz") but the publisher died, so it won't be published by him. I might self-publish it one day.

Thank you! :-)