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flies and other wonders
Nov. 14th, 2002 10:08 amOur apartment seems to be suffering a plague of flies. I have to buy some flyswatters.
Bookfinder.com is a wonderful thing. Ever since I discovered its existence, I've been lusting after a copy of The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, which is an omnibus version of the work of Barry Hughart. The problem is, the omnibus was published by a teeny little independent publisher several years ago, and most people who own it don't want to get rid of it. Bookfinder.com found me 13 copies of it for sale, in hardcover. I had only ever seen it in paperback. (Turned out to be 12 copies, because the one I tried to order early last week wasn't available). But, today I got e-mail saying the book had been shipped and I should expect it in the next two weeks. Yay!
I really need to do something about getting new contact lenses. This pair is making my vision blurry. I'm not sure why I'm having so much trouble actually sitting down and ordering the damn things, but every time I think about it, I think I can't afford it, or I think of something else I'd rather be doing. Usually I don't have a problem with it, because I really do enjoy being able to see, thank you very much. Maybe it has something to do with the prescription having been written by the man who grabbed the wrong bottle at my last appointment and was therefore responsible for me putting my lenses in peroxide solution instead of saline. That HURTS. That's why I got new glasses. I went around looking like the Bloodshot Monster from the Black Lagoon for about three days afterward.
I've managed to spill coffee down my front twice this morning. Thank goodness I'm wearing a more or less coffee-colored shirt. (I'm not sure what to call this color; it's browner than olive green and greener than khaki, and darker than "natural" as defined in most catalogs.)
I have to figure out what I'm going to send Kent State as a French writing sample. Sending them a section of one of my college papers would be cheating, but I have no idea what to write about otherwise. I wonder how many writing samples they get on the subject of not knowing what to write about?
Speaking of writing, I have pre-discontinuation letters to write for work, so I should go do that.
Bookfinder.com is a wonderful thing. Ever since I discovered its existence, I've been lusting after a copy of The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, which is an omnibus version of the work of Barry Hughart. The problem is, the omnibus was published by a teeny little independent publisher several years ago, and most people who own it don't want to get rid of it. Bookfinder.com found me 13 copies of it for sale, in hardcover. I had only ever seen it in paperback. (Turned out to be 12 copies, because the one I tried to order early last week wasn't available). But, today I got e-mail saying the book had been shipped and I should expect it in the next two weeks. Yay!
I really need to do something about getting new contact lenses. This pair is making my vision blurry. I'm not sure why I'm having so much trouble actually sitting down and ordering the damn things, but every time I think about it, I think I can't afford it, or I think of something else I'd rather be doing. Usually I don't have a problem with it, because I really do enjoy being able to see, thank you very much. Maybe it has something to do with the prescription having been written by the man who grabbed the wrong bottle at my last appointment and was therefore responsible for me putting my lenses in peroxide solution instead of saline. That HURTS. That's why I got new glasses. I went around looking like the Bloodshot Monster from the Black Lagoon for about three days afterward.
I've managed to spill coffee down my front twice this morning. Thank goodness I'm wearing a more or less coffee-colored shirt. (I'm not sure what to call this color; it's browner than olive green and greener than khaki, and darker than "natural" as defined in most catalogs.)
I have to figure out what I'm going to send Kent State as a French writing sample. Sending them a section of one of my college papers would be cheating, but I have no idea what to write about otherwise. I wonder how many writing samples they get on the subject of not knowing what to write about?
Speaking of writing, I have pre-discontinuation letters to write for work, so I should go do that.
