In which luncheon is taken later than one might desire

[desperance]

The little fuzzbugs did it again overnight, that oh-so-clever trick with the binliner. I have explained to them - more than once, I swear it! - the difference between funny-once and funny-always, but they wilfully don't get it; they just look at me and giggle, catwise (we are srs cats, but our whiskers twitch: what a giveaway!), and then run off to plot evil in corners. Separate corners, generally, for twice the evil.

Meantime, the best thing about the Lit & Phil - and I may have explained this too, but hey - is that I can be there twenty minutes, and I've drunk half my coffee and written half a page and it's clearly just not happening today, and I'm thinking I'll just get to the bottom of the page and give up, get out of there; and if I'd been home I would have flicked over to the e-mail and then to LJ and time would have passed and a page would have been my portion for the morning. But I can't do those distracting things in the Lit & Phil, there is nothing but the work; so I grind onward, and then something bites and forty minutes later I'm chewing on the coffee-grounds with fifteen hundred words behind me. Yay.

The worst thing about the Lit & Phil? Is coming home. Because that means via the shops, and I must spend money. On books today that I may in fact have already (but, hey, £2 each? Bargain. And I may not have them, y'know?) and fancy bread-flours when indeed I already have flours for making bread. Just, not this fancy. So...

And it's nearly three o'clock and I'm hungry now...

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Books are good, but do shops always mean spending? (I have days when I so don't feel like spending, though window-shopping is fine.)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

In theory, not at all: I really only wanted to look at HDD recorders and pick up a jar of marmalade. But if I'm queueing to pay for the marmalade, then I might as well remember that I need yeast; and if I'm around the yeast then by definition I'm around the flours. Oh, and look, there's a jar of blackstrap molasses; which I wanted last month and didn't have, and had to substitute with black treacle, so I might as well pick it up now. And of course I can't walk past a bookshop - 'specially a cheap bookshop - without going in, and did ever man go into a bookshop and not come out with a book? And...

Well. Like that, really.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

There is a serious shortage of fancy breads in Durham; do you work to commissions?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I might. Next time we know I'm coming down, let me know what you'd like and I'll give it a shot.

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

Yes,
Tell me where is fancy bread ...

[cdave]

On books today that I may in fact have already (but, hey, £2 each? Bargain. And I may not have them, y'know?)

This was why I catalogued my books on LibrayThing (a few at a time, while watching Babylon 5 on VHS). I can check from my phone.

Of course I haven't kept it up to date, and have a whole new stack to do.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup. I think about this, often and often (except that I don't carry a phone, so that side of the equation would be wanting). I am sure I could be that organised, if I were NewChaz. (I also dream of indexing the recipes, book by book...)

[cdave]

It's been a while since I've logged on, but they were just starting to add the ability to add more meta-data to books, such as short stories, or recipes. Should have been done quite a while ago.
...
But having a look now, I can't see sign off it.

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

It's wicked how cheap books are impossible to resist. Even when you don't want them.

[anef.livejournal.com]

Srsly impressed by the bin-liner trick.