I just sent you fannish gossip. You know, like we girls do, because we don't have the brainpower to talk about anything important and manly.

I shall let out a girly shriek of glee and go read the gossip rather than work on accounting reports or updating a tech manual, because as a silly female, I lack sufficient grey matter and would probably just boob them up anyway. Because I have boobs! Tee hee.

I don't think I have any particular female skills in making a house a home; my specialty is making a house a library.

Ginger, can I tag this? 'Cause, well, me too! (I've been at my current apartment for nearly two years and still haven't put anything on the walls.

Sure, Kathy. The people who've been to my house will attest to its book overload.

book overload

I'm way too dum to understand those words

As far as I'm concerned, once the boxes are unpacked, the pictures are on the walls and the internet is hooked up, it's a home.

and frankly, the pictures and most of the boxes are optional.

The people who've been to my house will attest to its book overload.

the glorious bookiness!

I just realized: there's a starbucks in the strip mall up the road that also has a Barnes&Noble. Which also has a starbucks inside (& right by the door.) They are the same sized. That's just bizarre.

There is a corner in NYC where you can sit at the window in one Starbucks and look at two others (one is a B&N).

Thanks!

I've been pretty good about keeping the number of new books down since I started at B&N last July, but this past Saturday, I faltered and brought home three books (Lost Christianities, Dearest Friend [collection of letters between John and Abigail Adams], and the newest from Kenneth C. Davis, who does all the "Don't Know Much About" books, which is a freebie Advance Reader and all about weird facts in history). When I moved and got rid of 1/3rd of my books, I also got rid of some bookshelves, and now fear having to get a new one pretty soon which I don't have room for!

I don't think I have any particular female skills in making a house a home; my specialty is making a house a library.

Can I have this on a t-shirt or a coffee mug?

As far as I'm concerned, once the boxes are unpacked, the pictures are on the walls and the internet is hooked up, it's a home.

and frankly, the pictures and most of the boxes are optional.

I love this statement. It is too true on so many levels. Some leave a trail of clutter, others insults, and, a few, cash...I leave a trail of books and photographs.

shooting in FL: [link]

is it me, or there has been a bunch of shooting recently, or is the national news just reporting things more?

I can't think of anyone less qualified to make a house a home than moi. Perhaps I lack that gene. Maybe it's linked to the fainting gene.