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ricevermicelliYou know how sometimes you get obsessed with something dumb for no reason, and then wind up really frustrated about it? That can't just be me, can it?
So, for the last little bit, I have been wanting to read Game of Thrones, and my husband wants to read it too, and lending is a pain in the ass when one person has a Kindle app for an Android and the other has a political stance opposed to Amazon's draconian DRM, so it would be really much really better to get the darn thing on paper.
I was going to stop by the bookstore at lunch, but I forgot that today was Staff Lunch day, so instead of having a leisurely read by myself, I was wandering around with giant bags of takeout. I was going to stop on the way home, but then I was running late. And then there was some sort of unexplained medical emergency further down the line that meant that I sat on a bridge for long enough to download and read Amazon's free sample, so now I really need the paper version.
I wound up at the grocery store tonight, and it occurred to me that this was perfect! This is a bestselling book! It'd be in the grocery store.
Except it wasn't.
And then I checked CVS, and Walgreen's, and looked inside Hess long enough to determine that they didn't sell reading material. The whole thing was getting rather silly, I thought, so I wasn't going to stop at Rite Aid on the way past, but then there was a bus stopped right in front of it, and I thought what the hey, might as well.
This would be such a satisfying story if I'd been able to get my fix at Rite Aid, but Rite Aid only had the second book.
So, for the last little bit, I have been wanting to read Game of Thrones, and my husband wants to read it too, and lending is a pain in the ass when one person has a Kindle app for an Android and the other has a political stance opposed to Amazon's draconian DRM, so it would be really much really better to get the darn thing on paper.
I was going to stop by the bookstore at lunch, but I forgot that today was Staff Lunch day, so instead of having a leisurely read by myself, I was wandering around with giant bags of takeout. I was going to stop on the way home, but then I was running late. And then there was some sort of unexplained medical emergency further down the line that meant that I sat on a bridge for long enough to download and read Amazon's free sample, so now I really need the paper version.
I wound up at the grocery store tonight, and it occurred to me that this was perfect! This is a bestselling book! It'd be in the grocery store.
Except it wasn't.
And then I checked CVS, and Walgreen's, and looked inside Hess long enough to determine that they didn't sell reading material. The whole thing was getting rather silly, I thought, so I wasn't going to stop at Rite Aid on the way past, but then there was a bus stopped right in front of it, and I thought what the hey, might as well.
This would be such a satisfying story if I'd been able to get my fix at Rite Aid, but Rite Aid only had the second book.
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Date: 2012-04-12 02:12 am (UTC)Madeleines. I couldn't find them (in bulk) anywhere for a week after I realized I adored them and they had to be mine, my own, my precious. I bought a pan and now I make my own (comma goddamnit).
That's just the most recent version I've suffered through.
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Date: 2012-04-12 03:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-12 03:34 am (UTC)Not laughing.
Sympathizing.
Totally.
Yeah, that's it.
*mfmfmfmfm*
(Sorry I haven't acquired them yet myself, or I'd loan them to you...)
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Date: 2012-04-12 10:57 am (UTC)