rather a lot of books

[rivendellrose]

I went out shopping for books for my trip this weekend (last night to Elliot Bay Book Company, and today to Half Price Books), and... I think I may have slightly over done it? I have this thing where I sort of get out of control with books. It's like any other addiction - if you allow yourself to take even one drink (or, in my case, buy one book)... it just leads to going nuts and overdoing it. Sooo... I'm a lot more poor, but I have a lot of awesome books. Yay.

I'm also having occasional teensy-tiny little nervous breakdowns about OMG LEAVING ON WEDNESDAY. Well. Technically, going to LA on Wednesday night, and then omg leaving-for-real on Thursday morning. But still. Same diff, in a general sense. Either way, it's all very suddenly immediate and I'm only freaking out a tiny bit, really, of course. Really. Hah.

Expect a near-constant state of panic between now and Thursday. And then silence, hopefully followed by a triumphant "News From Tokyo!" kind of post on Friday night. Well... assuming the hostel really does have Wifi. If not, the triumphant post might have to wait until I can find a local internet cafe. :D

But that's not yet. Not until Friday. Until then.... yeah. Until then, it's all over but two more days of work, and a lot of packing and panicking and general fuss and worry. Wheeeeee.

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[narsilion.livejournal.com]

I've read Contact, Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and I just started The year of living Biblically.
I haven't heard of the others. Let me know what you think, I'm always looking for good books.
It souinds like you gave yourself the day off from work Wednsday, that will help keep your stress level down hopefully!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

You bet! And yeah, I've always had Weds. off - originally it was just because I wasn't sure what time my flight was going to be, but I certainly wasn't going to go back and change it, given how likely it is that I'll have to do running around that day. :D