DH was saying it's the one day being a UPS driver is like being the ice cream truck driver.
Congratulations to the class of 1999. You all proved more or less adequate.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Susan W. - Jul 21, 2007 9:22:10 am PDT #3404 of 28197
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2007 9:27:50 am PDT #3405 of 28197
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Eh, once my lunch digests, I'm not waiting around any more. If I don't get the book until tomorrow, I'll live.
If I get hit by a truck Monday, I'll be a lot happier that I chose to go hiking with my boyfriend on a gorgeous summer day, versus sitting in my apartment waiting for UPS (or even reading HP7).
Consuela - Jul 21, 2007 9:32:08 am PDT #3406 of 28197
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My niece picked up her copy at 12:07 am, and is still only 42 pages into it. I told her she has to finish it by tomorrow so I can read it.
Aims - Jul 21, 2007 9:33:02 am PDT #3407 of 28197
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I finished mine!!!
Course, I'm a freak.
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2007 9:39:00 am PDT #3408 of 28197
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Huh. Even though Amazon says that UPS was delivering it, and the UPS site has tracking info, the Post Office just delivered it. (Not that I'm complaining.) I guess UPS sub-contracts to the USPS sometimes?
Anyway, the mail carrier, who is totally friendly even when she's delivering a free sample of cereal (or something) just cracked me up. She rang my doorbell (I have no idea how she got in, since the front door is supposed to be secure and people are buzzed in), and when I opened the door, she said, with a big grin, "It's here!"
And I clapped my hands and said, "Oh, you just MADE my day!!!!" And she laughed, and I asked her if she's been getting reactions like mine all day. She said, "Actually, you were one of the quieter ones!"
Have book. WOOT.
Still going hiking with boyfriend. But now I know I can come home from the trail and READ HARRY POTTER!!!
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2007 9:40:48 am PDT #3409 of 28197
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Hee -- the box has an owl on it!
Also, I kind of feel like I did the day that "Chosen" aired -- like, this is it. It's all going to be over. And I don't want it to be over, but I have to find out what happens.
Meep.
DebetEsse - Jul 21, 2007 9:47:20 am PDT #3410 of 28197
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I was just thinking Buffy and Angel thoughts earlier this week.
Jessica - Jul 21, 2007 10:02:16 am PDT #3411 of 28197
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I guess UPS sub-contracts to the USPS sometimes?
All the major carriers do that now -- they deliver it to your post office, and the mail carrier brings it to your house. Better for UPS because they don't have to deal with people not being home, but sucky for the customer because sometimes the whole point of sending something UPS (Fedex/DHL) is to avoid one's extremely crappy local post office!
DH and I walked out this morning and bought one at Barnes & Noble, along with a copy of Vampire People (which WAS on a table in the Humor section, unfortunately that particular B&N has the humor section table in an annoyingly out of the way location). I'm letting him read it first because I'll be home all week with nothing better to do.
ChiKat - Jul 21, 2007 10:31:46 am PDT #3412 of 28197
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
All the major carriers do that now -- they deliver it to your post office, and the mail carrier brings it to your house.
My UPS mailing label actually says to deliver to the Post Office and the Post Office was supposed to deliver it to me. But, UPS did deliver it. I don't really care either way. I have it.
Kathy A - Jul 21, 2007 11:29:51 am PDT #3413 of 28197
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Well, I just finished it. I posted my reactions in the Book Club thread.
Last night was pretty fun. I got all dressed up (someone in the back room took my photo, mocking my old-fashioned film camera--"I haven't heard that sound [the film advancing] in ages!") and arrived 45 minutes before I had to clock in. B&N was filling up with kids and adults in all variations of costumes, people complaining because they were going to have to wait since they didn't reserve the book, but overall everyone was pretty hepped up for it. We had a few outbursts of adults shouting in exhultation when they had the book in their hand after midnight, which always brought a laugh from everyone else still waiting.
The line handlers were genius in how they organized the crowd, since we managed to sell nearly 950 books (not including the non-Potter stuff we were ringing up for some customers) between 12:01 and 1:25. One of the last customers said that they had been waiting at a neighboring B&N but were getting frustrated at the way the line wasn't moving at all (it was still stretched throughout the store and out the doors at 1:00, and they ended up selling only 50 more books than we did), so they came over to our store and were shocked to find we were on the verge of shutting down the registers. Straightening up the store was a bitch though, and I ended up bailing at 2:30.