On Overdue Library Books.
Sun 2004-11-14 16:55:22 (in context)
- 18,131 words (if poetry, lines) long
- 0.00 hrs. revised
Here's the thing about NaNoWriMo. Reading fails to get done in proportion to writing that needs doing. Well, it does if you're on your best behavior. Even if they're books about writing.
And all four of the ones I checked out are overdue.
I hate library fines. $1.20 per book comes to $4.80 and that's, like, a nice pot of tea, or a sandwich at Half-Fast Subs, or a couple new books at a used bookstore that I'm not getting. I hate spending money on my own stupidity. Dammit.
I'm at the Tea Spot again with other Boulder NaNos. The majority of us reached our writing goals for the day (/me glances upward, *perk!*) so we're all goofing off and chatting and knitting and playing vider games and stuff. I guess I can go drop off my library books after this, and then head over to the Boulder Bookstore. My copy of Foxs In Socks is defective and needs to be traded in for a good one. What could possibly make a copy of a beloved Dr. Seuss book defective? Well, it's not that the pages are in upside-down. That's kinda cool. The problem is that all the pages are miscut. There's a blank white band at the bottoms, and the tops are all truncated. Slow Joe Crow's face isn't wholly there, and Sue's hair is flat up top while she Sews Socks.
And my husband won't let me read it to him until it's not defective, so, y'see I gotta get this exchange taken care of.
And that's about all I have to report.