It's Monday again, isn't it?
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It's Monday again, isn't it?
ssh. don't wake my brain. it thinks it's still dreaming
blaaaargh. Morning dark when alarm clock goes off. Brain confused. Confused and sad. Snooze button evil.
Brain confused. Confused and sad.
Mine, too.
An independent bookstore dude talks about chasing shoplifters: [link]
There's an underground economy of boosted books. These values are commonly understood and roundly agreed upon through word of mouth, and the values always seem to be true. Once, a scruffy, large man approached me, holding a folded-up piece of paper. "Do you have any Buck?" He paused and looked at the piece of paper. "Any books by Buckorsick?" I suspected that he meant Bukowski, but I played dumb, and asked to see the piece of paper he was holding. It was written in crisp handwriting that clearly didn't belong to him, and it read:
1. Charles Bukowski
2. Jim Thompson
3. Philip K. Dick
4. William S. Burroughs
5. Any Graphic Novel
This is pretty much the authoritative top five, the New York Times best-seller list of stolen books. Its origins still mystify me. It might have belonged to an unscrupulous used bookseller who sent the homeless out, Fagin-like, to do his bidding, or it might have been another book thief helping a semi-illiterate friend identify the valuable merchandise.
It's Monday again, isn't it?
Yes. Yes it is.
I am so gronked today my eyes are crossing. It can't just be DST - I got a good night's sleep (so good that my alarm woke me up for the first time I can remember in forever), and I felt fine getting up at the usual time on Sunday. I'm blaming Monday. And society.
Dana, it's practically a haiku:
Morning dark - alarm
clock goes off. Brain confused, sad.
Snooze button evil.
I'm blaming Monday. And society.
I blame kids these days, and the music they listen to.
And dirty hippies.
Ooh, it's Nilly!
Yeah - the complete dark when I woke up was not at all fun.
I napped on Saturday to counteract DST and then went to bed at 9:30 last night. I am resigned to just not getting much done around the house this week, becuase I plan to get in bed by 10 every night.