I always get very excited when I check out a library book, or find a used book, and it's been annotated by somebody else. It's like a little gift, where you get a peek inside someone else's thought processes.
When we landed here you said you needed a few days to get space worthy again and is there somethin' wrong with your bunk?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sean K - Oct 19, 2007 10:12:41 am PDT #7556 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
tommyrot - Oct 19, 2007 10:15:51 am PDT #7557 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It's like a little gift, where you get a peek inside someone else's thought processes.
Sometimes it's a gift. Sometimes it's more like a curse, when you go, "What were they thinking?"
Sean K - Oct 19, 2007 10:16:55 am PDT #7558 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Sometimes it's more like a curse, when you go, "What were they thinking?"
Yeah, but at least some of the time when it's like that, you can at least point and laugh and go "Holy crap, there's a lot of wackos in the world!"
amych - Oct 19, 2007 10:17:11 am PDT #7559 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Anyone have a special celebratory treat on Friday?
4:15 meeting cancelled. Not that that's an every Friday thing, or a cookie, but it's darned nice not having to be in a meeting.
flea - Oct 19, 2007 10:18:26 am PDT #7560 of 10001
information libertarian
I just got a Twix bar pout of the vending machine in a mad effort to get me motivated to write 2 pages on Ranganathan's Planes of Work.
Waits.
sarameg - Oct 19, 2007 10:19:38 am PDT #7561 of 10001
I didn't go to work?
Uhg, Devi has some sort of digestive issue. She's acting normal and hasn't puked since last night, but...uhg. I'll call the vet tomorrow if it doesn't seem to be clearing up, as it hasn't even been 24 hours yet. Otherwise, I'd have to wait until monday and that's just a little too long if it's not going away, I think. Damnit, she's my 100% healthy cat, no fair!
Susan W. - Oct 19, 2007 10:20:24 am PDT #7562 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
It depends a bit on the type of book, but mostly I find other people's annotations invasive and annoying. It's just me and the book/author--I don't want that relationship turned into a threesome.
amych - Oct 19, 2007 10:23:15 am PDT #7563 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Maybe you should've tried the king-sized Twix, flea?
megan walker - Oct 19, 2007 10:24:51 am PDT #7564 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My favorite(?) was a Jane-Austen-as-detective mystery written in the style of JA where someone had written "Jane Austen is rolling over in her grave" in the margin. All I could think was "Not as much as she probably is at you writing in a library book"!
Jesse - Oct 19, 2007 10:31:14 am PDT #7565 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In college, I always had trouble buying used books, because I find it nearly impossible to read the un-highlighted text if it has been highlighted. Part of why I basically stopped highlighting myself. Also because I was always highlighting things in bold, and you know what? You can already tell those things are important!
Also, I just got good work news which makes me want to leave for the day. Would anyone notice? Probably not.