Pooped
Mood:  hungry
Now Playing: Bad Religion - Stranger than Fiction
Well here's my attempt to get the blog moving a bit more; instead of one blog a week as we've been doing the past few weeks. Except Elisabeth's late coming back from work and picking up the take out pizza. As a result, this glass of wine's gone to my head and I keep accidentally closing windows.
Yikes!

Christmas here is insane. EVERYONE waits 'till the last minute to shop. So have I and I sense that I'm very, very, very close to getting screwed with regard to Elisabeth's present that I haven't bought yet. ... Of course, I wouldn't be had she not come into the book store last week and force me to buy the things that I was going to give her as a present because I knew she wanted them even though she thought I'd probably forgotten.
Bleah!

BBC radio 4 did a special thing about all the insane things booksellers get asked over the holidays and it only pissed me off because it only scratched the INSANE surface and didn't touch on the fact that YOU'RE ASKED THE-SAME-BUT-DIFFERENT QUESTIONS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AD INFINITUM for 8 freakin' hours a day.
RAWG!

These are the 3 simple rules a person needs in order to not be and insane customer and people don't seem to be able to follow them:
1) Know the title of the book you're looking for.
2) Know the author's name
3) If you're told the book is out of print, accept it as a fact; not something you can negotiate.
Bonus tip: Knowing the colour of the cover doesn't do anything except confuse EVERYTHING. YOU CANNOT DO AN INTERNET SEARCH ON A BOOK ON THE BASIS OF THE COLOUR OF ITS COVER.