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Wed, Sep. 10th, 2003 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterWell, one of the managers got back from vacation today so more training to be a book buyer will commence. I think they've finally decided what to do with me -- apparently I won't be spending much time in the San Jose warehouse at all, although they'll train me for that too so I can go down there and help if they're ever overworked. This is probably good, as the place is half an hour away, in a kind of skeevy area not close to any nice park I can go eat lunch in. Plus, I would have to go on 101 to get there, and 101 is just horribly congested perpetually. Kind of like my nose ;). It's also good because book buyer is higher paying ^_^. Apparently tomorrow I'll start being trained to do research.. not quite sure on what, but probably on book prices on the internet. So if I'm using the computer, hopefully I will get to sit down once in a while!! Yay! Plus, I am a bad worker because I'm already thinking that maybe I can check in on LJ every so often...
Anyhow, this is good because shelving computer books was starting to drive me nuts. So today I reorganized the college section (study guides, etc) and got quite nostalgic looking at all these books advising students on how to study well and how to survive freshman year. Plus, ran across even more books I want to read -- one is a study on twenty Stanford students and what they did after they graduated to see how a good education affects people's lives, some are questioning liberal arts, some are questioning colleges and universities. I'm already predisposed to disagree with them, but they look interesting anyway.
Hied myself to the library during lunch break (and had a cappucino with caramel... must break self of expensive coffee addiction!) and got another Nora Roberts for fuzzy value, the next two Butler books in the Lilith's Brood/Xenogenesis trilogy, Connie Willis' Doomsday Book just because I keep seeing it around and I figure I should read more female scifi writers. Yup. Couldn't find Otherland 2 there... hopefully they have it.
Oops, forgot to add that I did an incredibly stupid thing yesterday. I walked out at six, signed my little timesheet and everything, and decided to call the boy from the car. Opened my cell phone and discovered that my cell phone clock read 5:12! Well, I thought, maybe it got off by an hour. Looked down at my watch and found my watch read 5 too. Somehow I completely misread the time and almost ending up leaving an hour early. Shuffled back in with great embarrassment and hoped no one had seen me leave with my purse....
Anyhow, this is good because shelving computer books was starting to drive me nuts. So today I reorganized the college section (study guides, etc) and got quite nostalgic looking at all these books advising students on how to study well and how to survive freshman year. Plus, ran across even more books I want to read -- one is a study on twenty Stanford students and what they did after they graduated to see how a good education affects people's lives, some are questioning liberal arts, some are questioning colleges and universities. I'm already predisposed to disagree with them, but they look interesting anyway.
Hied myself to the library during lunch break (and had a cappucino with caramel... must break self of expensive coffee addiction!) and got another Nora Roberts for fuzzy value, the next two Butler books in the Lilith's Brood/Xenogenesis trilogy, Connie Willis' Doomsday Book just because I keep seeing it around and I figure I should read more female scifi writers. Yup. Couldn't find Otherland 2 there... hopefully they have it.
Oops, forgot to add that I did an incredibly stupid thing yesterday. I walked out at six, signed my little timesheet and everything, and decided to call the boy from the car. Opened my cell phone and discovered that my cell phone clock read 5:12! Well, I thought, maybe it got off by an hour. Looked down at my watch and found my watch read 5 too. Somehow I completely misread the time and almost ending up leaving an hour early. Shuffled back in with great embarrassment and hoped no one had seen me leave with my purse....
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Re: Doomsday Book is fantastic!
Fri, Sep. 12th, 2003 06:28 am (UTC)