I got frowned at for reading last time
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
beth b - May 04, 2009 5:52:01 am PDT #9075 of 28406
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Beverly - May 04, 2009 6:20:58 am PDT #9076 of 28406
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
There was a tv blaring soaps and three separate conversations at competing volume last time I had to await jury selection. One of the people also waiting was a state cop. He walked by the coatroom and saw me tucked away there in semi-silence, reading, and flashed me a grin.
Kathy A - May 04, 2009 8:23:15 am PDT #9077 of 28406
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Polter-Cow - May 04, 2009 8:29:34 am PDT #9078 of 28406
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha! Impatient kitty is impatient!
Ginger - May 04, 2009 11:15:22 am PDT #9079 of 28406
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
And that is why I didn't want to watch the movie, and why I stopped watching Mad Men after 2 episodes.
Me too. I reserve whatever nostalgia I have for that era for penny candy and trick-or-treating without adult supervision.
DeKalb County library stocks the jury waiting area with a pretty wide variety of books that you can return to any library branch. I was impressed. No one seemed to mind reading during voir dire, although the judge was irritated when he thought one guy was texting. He was playing a game, though, and they let him continue with an admonition of pay attention.
Connie Neil - May 04, 2009 11:17:02 am PDT #9080 of 28406
brillig
they let him continue with an admonition of pay attention
They consider people more likely to pay attention while reading than while texting? If the book was good, I wouldn't even be aware of what room I was in.
§ ita § - May 04, 2009 11:40:56 am PDT #9081 of 28406
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They consider people more likely to pay attention while reading than while texting?
I parsed it as more likely to pay attention while reading than playing a game. It would depend on the game, really.
Ginger - May 04, 2009 1:41:19 pm PDT #9082 of 28406
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
ita deciphered my mangled prose. I think the main concern was texting, since you're not supposed to communicate with the outside world, but the judge felt he had to throw in some kind of admonition.
Calli - May 04, 2009 3:24:51 pm PDT #9083 of 28406
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
We had computers with internet connections in the jury waiting room. And they didn't provide books, but I brought a couple. But once we got to the voir dire part of the process we were supposed to pay attention to the judge and lawyers.
Beverly - May 04, 2009 4:45:15 pm PDT #9084 of 28406
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Well, the coatroom was just in the pit, the bullpen, you know, where they put everybody to pull prospective jurors from. Once in the courtroom we did have to pay attention--that part was pretty interesting.