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My stomach is still hurting from minnow1212's The (Zombie) Master of Culter (spoilers through Game of Kings). Must be read to be believed.

"Scott settled into the camp after an unnerving initial interview with Lymond, who cast an ironical cornflower blue gaze over him (one eye fell out in the middle of the inspection, and stared piercingly at Scott from the mud) and asked if Scott had perhaps confused his words-that-started-with-zed and was looking for the camp of a zealot, not a zombie, before accepting him."

Snerk.

Ahhh, that totally made my day.

Had a showing of Nightmare Before Christmas today, because my mom's here for Halloween so I won't be inviting friends over then. But it was good. I love love love that movie and how off-kilter everything is.

Haven't been reading much lately because lack of sleep is getting to me. Also, I spent way too much time revamping the LJ and playing with HTML. And I'm very, very behind now on comments and the FL and everything, urgh.

Work was ok... we had free Halloween lunch and a costume contest (not many people were dressed up), but I thought the coolest thing was that the executives all dressed up and were serving people apple cider in the cafeteria. I got mine from the CEO of the company (as Elvis Presley) and didn't even realize it until someone else figured it out later.

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Bought for the bookstore again today. On one hand, having to get up early (aka, before noon, since I have a horrible sleep schedule) wasn't so great. On the other hand, we didn't have too many plans for the weekend, and it was nice being back and sort of hanging out and having fun there. Although my feet hurt like crazy now because I'm not used to eight hours on my feet anymore. But, oh, it was so nice being around all those books again.

Some strange books seen today:
- How to Sell Footwear
- a book for biology students that put various important processes (photosynthesis, making urea, etc.) to the tune of songs like "Battle Hymn of the Republic." That one made me giggle for quite some time.

Also met one of the new employees there, hee. He's still figuring out all the sections and whatnot. I remember when I used to get totally confused when a customer would ask me stuff, and now it's just, "Oh, real estate? That's in aisle 18, bottom two shelves of the first bookcase on your left, right after the break in the aisle."

And I hunted around the bookstore and found Pamela Dean's The Dubious Hills (whoo!) and Greer Gilman's Moonwise and Geoff Ryman's The Warrior Who Carried Life, because I was going through old LJ entries and realized someone had recced Ryman. Unfortunately, no Unconquered Countries, which had been the specific rec. I also forgot to look for Swanwick's Iron Dragon's Daughter, oh well. Maybe next time. But I am very happy, especially about Dubious Hills, which I've been looking for for a while now.

I've found I'm really sort of addicted to used bookstores now. One of the bookstore people mentioned getting really depressed looking up books online because they were all going for fifty cents or so used, which devalued the book. But then, I almost never buy used books online. I only do if I've hunted for it for quite some time and am getting really impatient for it to show up (i.e., the Cuevas books). Otherwise, I love sort of hunting through the stacks of used bookstores and looking for out of print stuff. And it's great because you never quite know what you're going to get. New bookstores all carry fairly similar stock (which is good in a whole 'nother way), but I really enjoy the hunt itself.