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trinalin April 3 2009, 03:03:33 UTC
Campion is a great choice. Though I'd probably go with Columbo myself, provided he's been fumigated (I imagine he reeks of cigar smoke). ;-)

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wishfulaces April 3 2009, 22:39:07 UTC
Ha! Yes, Columbo would definitely require fumigation. :)

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nsempress April 3 2009, 04:30:53 UTC
April might kill me too. Of course, after the 20th, everything will be done and I will be golden, but until then, BLEGH.

I do that with store receipts. It's the hardest to decide which book gets the receipt if I buy multiple ones; generally, if I buy a fiction and, say, a Bonaparte book, it's the Bonaparte book. With just multiple fiction books, I just pick one at random and stick it in there.

I have a semi-corner office (tucked away inside a labyrinth of hallways), although it's unfortunately right next to the reading room. I always hear somebody in the reading room talking to someone else, and I'm like, oh, okay! I'm going to talk to ____. I spend a lot less time in my office after last month's debacle, though.

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wishfulaces April 3 2009, 22:40:23 UTC
See, the 20th is just one day out of everything else I've got going on this month. And then, seriously, May and June will finish me off if April doesn't.

I usually put the receipt in the book I like the most (or think I'll like the most) when I have to choose. Yay for arbitrariness?

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agentotter April 3 2009, 06:58:55 UTC
My mom uses anything she has at hand and leaves it in the book for the next person to stumble across

I LOVE that, and I do it now whenever I'm sending out a swapped book or anything like that, just put something random in there. I got a book awhile back from cofax that had a Bay Area bus pass in it, and I was just kind of delighted... it's a little slice of something from another part of the world. I like it. :)

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wishfulaces April 3 2009, 22:41:33 UTC
it's a little slice of something from another part of the world

Yes! Isn't it awesome? I should take it up myself if/whenever I do book swaps. :-D (Usually I just send people random-assed postcards. I could combine them!)

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agentotter April 3 2009, 23:29:52 UTC
I do that, too, but I especially like to do it with postcards that are from someplace. It's a great way to get rid of the Montana postcards that I won't ever send from Montana. :D

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wishfulaces April 4 2009, 02:22:02 UTC
I sent a friend of mine one of a woman on the Kansas prairie using buffalo chips. Because Kansas history is JUST THAT AWESOME that it needs buffalo chips on its postcards. Actually, I bet you could find something similar from Montana.

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jenlev April 3 2009, 10:45:23 UTC
Now all you need is someone who walks like the Minister of Silly Walks.

Also, ah, Barney Miller. I adored that show.

I am currently using my ticket from the MFA for the ancient Assyria exhibit as a bookmark.

*smooch*

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wishfulaces April 3 2009, 22:42:36 UTC
One of my co-workers is sort of halfway there...he tilts backwards very steeply, but he doesn't do any sort of strange foot wriggles. (NO, I will not mention it to him. :p)

Barney Miller was pretty wonderful. My mom's accumulating the DVD sets.

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jenlev April 3 2009, 23:16:16 UTC
Hee! Perhaps he will surprise you and go all the way over the edge some day. :)

As for Barney Miller.....Ah, sublime. One word: brownies.

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wishfulaces April 4 2009, 02:23:01 UTC
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me about him. He has an unexpectedly quirky sense of humor.

Oh gods, the brownies! But, three words: Dietrich in drag. :p

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