Hokay. So. Guild Wars 2. There is a new event coming up this weekend that ArenaNet is releasing for free, which is totally awesome. On top of that, they gave three invites out to every player. I obviously have the game, so I am holding up three invites for my flist first and if there are no takers, I'll offer then to people on Facebook. Here are ( Read more... )

I forgot how much of a circle jerk classrooms can be. And to make matters worse, it's all online, so I don't even have the benefit of nonverbal communication to show that I'm not being a dick. Since my classes are online, we're required to post at least three times a week: an initial post and two posts commenting on other people's posts. That's ( Read more... )

A little after eleven this morning, a customer came up to me looking for the Harry Potter books. As I was walking away, I heard one of the midshift employees saying something, but all I caught was "Bradbury" and "died." I quickly directed the customers to Harry Potter and ran back to my coworker ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking of taking up weaving and spinning. I've been crafting a lot lately and I think that's because if I'm not totally focused on something, I'm going to stress about work or classes or something else. It's my quiet moment of meditation ( Read more... )

When you call a bookstore (especially the one where I work), after I answer the phone and ask what I can help you with, the correct answer is not "I'm looking for this book (sometimes followed with "and I wanted to see if you have it")" and then stop talking. I can't read your mind. I do, however, have thousands of books to choose from. Would ( Read more... )

It never amazes me how surprised some customers get when they realize that I work for a business that is trying to make money. I know, I know. It's extremely rare in a capitalist society, but my store has always leaned toward the Bohemian side of things. I was working in romance the other day (I now shelve romance, scifi/fantasy and the new age ( Read more... )

Blaine, the cat I mentioned a few posts back, died yesterday. Mom called today to tell me. I think out of the last dozen times I spoke to her on the phone, ten of those were bad news things. Dad thinks it was probably cancer, given the way he acted. I thought he was doing so well, but Mom said that he had stopped eating again and even after his ( Read more... )

I finished Dragon Age 2 today. I loved the final battles, but I think I hated the final narration. As usual with Bioware games, it's going to take me a few days to absorb everything and decide if I really liked it or not.

One of the joys of working in a used bookstore is you occasionally find amazing treasures. I have found several of James Tiptree, Jr.'s books and short story collections, which has delighted me to no end. About the only other place you could find her short stories (and a novella or two) were in Hugo anthologies. However, I've found The Starry ( Read more... )

This past week has been shitty. Amazingly shitty. It's like 2011 decided that enough crap hadn't fallen on my head (figuratively and literally) in 2010, so it had to make sure I knew that shit was lurking right around the corner ( Read more... )