I came, I saw, I was employed

[hawkwing_lb]

Hughes & Hughes, Booksellers, apparently want me to come and work for them. They want me, they got me: next Tuesday, we will find out if, having seen shy, retiring, scatter-brained and medicated me, they want to keep me.

The weather continues (shock! horror!) fine and sunny and in the low twenties Celsius. My brain was mugged by a short story yesterday, which wrote itself in the space of five disjointed hours and left me gasping to keep up. When I was too tired to resist, it stuck out its tongue, laughed at me, and snuck in some blatently homoerotic implications at the end, and when I protested feebly, cried, "But it's thematic!" and then refused to pay me any more heed.

Who's in charge of this brain, anyway?

I finished off Charles Stross' The Clan Corporate yesterday: an okay book, but definitely a series one. All set-up, all the time. Also, Miriam is stupid in the cause of plot on more than one occassion. It's understandable stupid, but it still feels like handwaving. Hopefully there will be some kind of pay-off in the next book.

Kristine Smith's Law of Survival, on the other hand, is an entirely self-contained novel that slots nicely into place in the larger progression of the Jani Kilian books. Tense and extremely well-paced, with some deft character development and interesting hints of things to come. I really need to get a copy of Contact Imminent now.

I still need to read Toil properly for jmeadows, finish cataloguing this! damn! library! of mine, write this damn! brain-wormed! novel!, reshelve books, reorganise contents of boxes, write nice begging letters to archaeological companies to ask for work on a dig somewhere sometime, attend appointments, go to work next week, and not run away gibbering into a corner. Gibbering would be bad.

Onward, onward.

Comments

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Ooh, employment! Even bigger ooo! at the bookstore! I predict you'll be shelving books with one hand and one eye, the other of each which will be utilized for the book being perused. I think that makes sense.

Gibbering is bad if you're in a Robert E. Howard story. Otherwise...;-)

Weather is much the same here, although we're waiting for TS Alberto to roar by to the East of us. That wind you hear is us puffing in the general direction of Alberto, to keep him away. ;-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

It's an airport bookshop, and fortunately for me they don't stock much besides bestsellers, magazines, and business books. Otherwise I'd be fired within the week for reading when I'm supposed to be working.

Still, experience of working in a bookshop means that when I apply to the bigger bookshops in town, the ones with SFF sections, I might have a leg up on getting in the door :-).

You're in line for a tropical storm? Is it just me, or do they come earlier every year?

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

This is the earliest one has hit the continental US, but we're back into a period of "heavy activity" as they say. The tropics are more active; the weather's warmer and earlier, so yes.

Now, we weren't in direct line of Alberto; it was predicted to pass us to the east (after crossing Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina/southern North Carolina), heading back out to sea. I'll have to look at the weather maps to see what exactly it did, but we only got lovely clouds all day. It was grand. Cool, cloudy, pleasant...too bad it's going up to the 35 range in the next few days. :-P

Well, an airport bookshop will still be a nice place to work. You'll be able to get a decent meal at that airport, unless international arrivals go to a different building. ;-) Ah, the joys of arriving after an overnight flight and then getting a car. At least I'd had some breakfast.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad it didn't hit you :-).

I don't know about airport food... I'm warned that it's expensive and small of selection. :-)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Well, there was this cafe we went to right after we stumbled off the plane and collected our baggage. It had a decent selection of things. Of course, I was not thinking too well at that point, having just stumbled off an overnight flight. ;-)

There's always brown-bagging it then. Today, I'll be dining on crackers, cheese, leftover chopped chicken liver, and tea. I might also get a small salad from the cafeteria. Light meals, now, that's the ticket. I've gained too much weight being less active, and it's all caught up to me. Bleah.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

With the added benefit that brown-bagging is cheap... :-) (said the college student suffering from the perennial college student disease.)

I haven't dined on anything heavy since the start of our little heatwave. Rabbit-food and fruit with side-orders of cold meats gets boring fast, alas.

I wish you luck with weight-control and active-ness. Staying fit and healthy is a full-time job, at least for me.

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Ooo, working at a book store.

Might be worth it if you get a discount...

Might spend more money than you make, even with the discount.

Hmm.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Airport bookshop. Bestsellers only.

Fortunately.