Friday errands
Nov. 12th, 2004 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseSo I had to run up to our landlord's office today to drop off the pet deposit, which went surprisingly well for all the fuss I'd made about trooping up there alone. Turns out I'm not so hopeless as I think I am. Although I must point out that I have some kind of icky-smelling-possibly-homeless-man magnet, and that it's excessively unpleasant to have one of those sitting directly behind one on the bus. I still haven't gotten the smell out of my nostrils. Eww.
On the way home, I decided to drop by Twice Sold Tales to visit their kitties (the store has three cats that live there), and check out the books. I'd forgotten how awful it is for me to let myself browse a bookstore. The number of books that I wibbled and whined over was unbelievable, and included a first edition copy of a book called Merlin Dreams or something like that - a series of Arthurian legends and fables, written by Peter Dickinson and illustrated by Alan Lee, a book called The Soul of Sex, a complete works of Yeats, and a 1909 copy of the poetry of Oscar Wilde. I looked for the illustrated Lord of the Rings (for that I would have shelled out whatever they were asking...), but no luck, as usual.
Petted the old orange kitty for a while (the purr on that old guy is amazing!), and then visited with the new kitten. I meant to just pet him once and let him go on napping, but he woke up and squeaked at me when I stopped, so I had to keep petting. XD
On the way home, I decided to drop by Twice Sold Tales to visit their kitties (the store has three cats that live there), and check out the books. I'd forgotten how awful it is for me to let myself browse a bookstore. The number of books that I wibbled and whined over was unbelievable, and included a first edition copy of a book called Merlin Dreams or something like that - a series of Arthurian legends and fables, written by Peter Dickinson and illustrated by Alan Lee, a book called The Soul of Sex, a complete works of Yeats, and a 1909 copy of the poetry of Oscar Wilde. I looked for the illustrated Lord of the Rings (for that I would have shelled out whatever they were asking...), but no luck, as usual.
Petted the old orange kitty for a while (the purr on that old guy is amazing!), and then visited with the new kitten. I meant to just pet him once and let him go on napping, but he woke up and squeaked at me when I stopped, so I had to keep petting. XD
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-11-12 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-12 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-12 04:34 pm (UTC)I wonder if it'll still be there tomorrow. No harm in checking.
no subject
Date: 2004-11-12 05:26 pm (UTC)It's worth a try, yeah. I'm totally kicking myself, now, for not having grabbed it while I was there...
no subject
Date: 2004-11-12 04:39 pm (UTC)I went in there, and was astonished at how empty the shelves were.
There needs to be better bookstores out there.
no subject
Date: 2004-11-12 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-12 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-12 06:39 pm (UTC):)
And Twice Sold Tales has that really obnoxious sign on the front door. something about cell phones, I don't remember the text but I remember the tone of it being really bitch and condescending. Doesn't really put me in a positive mood for going into shop. The opposite of welcoming.
no subject
Date: 2004-11-12 08:21 pm (UTC)Possibly the one in the U-Dist doesn't have the same sign as the Broadway one? I just recall it saying something like "please turn off cell phones." *Shrugs*
no subject
Date: 2004-11-12 11:44 pm (UTC)But of course, as with everything, YMMV.
B
no subject
Date: 2004-11-14 07:57 pm (UTC)YMMV?
no subject
Date: 2004-11-13 03:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-14 07:59 pm (UTC)