"let's go out walking / you know, it's garbage night"

[hermionesviolin]

10 hours of sleep.  Oops.

I still got a good amount of packing/culling/reorganizing done, though.

As usual, despite all the culling (which is definitely not finished, btw) I still have way too many boxes.  7x11 shouldn't be that much smaller than 9x12, but my spatial sense is defective plus I boggle that all this stuff fit in my current 9x12, so I'm still with the worrying.

I did call the landlord.  (Voicemail, natch.)  OriginalRoomie said he hadn't been by to fix the windows yet.  Sigh.

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My parents came back from NH and we went to Friendly's for dinner tonight.  I ordered my usual -- the mushroom+swiss+bacon colossal burger with Gardenburger and (duh) without the bacon.

watress (handing us our food): "I told them no bacon, and then they took the bacon off.  Is that okay?"
me: "Yeah, that's okay."
[later]
my mom: "And Elizabeth's feeling gracious -- to the shock of her mother."
me: "I've grown as a person."

I generally insist that no meat touch my food (or utensils that are used on my food) but I'm more relaxed about it when eating out.

It occurred to me only later that there's almost no way I would have known about the bacon just from eating it (unless I have a physiological reaction against it -- is that even possible with bacon?) and that was really wonderful of her to ask me about it.

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free to good home, part two

let's go down to the east river
and throw something in
something we can't live without
and then let's start again

Seriously, anything you want, just let me know.  No charge.  This is all going to Goodwill.

- A bumper sticker that says:
Next year, why not vacation in the millions of worlds of a used book store?

- assorted magnets

• a waist is a terrible thing to mind
  
• more fun / less stuff
  
• Live simply that others may simply live.
  
• Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty.
  
• Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

YA softcover

• That Was Then, This is Now (S. E. Hinton, 1971)
  
• The Black Stallion (Walter Farley)
  
• Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson, 1977)
  
• The Summer of the Swans (Betsy Byars, 1970)
  
• Out of the Ordinary (Annie Dalton, 1988) sff
  
• Pigs Don't Fly (Mary Brown, 1994) [ex-library] sff
  
• Behind the Bedroom Wall (Laura E. Williams, 1996) Holocaust
  
• Beyond the Divide (Kathryn Lasky, 1983) Amish, Gold Rush, etc.
  
• To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
  
• Old Yeller (Fred Gipson)
  
• Heidi (Johanna Spyri)

YA hardcover

• Bright Days, Stupid Nights (Norma Foz Mazer and Harry Mazer, 1992)
  
• Belonging (Virginia M. Scott, 1986)
  
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
  
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
  
• Ludie's Song (Dirlie Herlihy, 1988)
  
• Friends First (Christine McDonnell, 1990)
  
• Lassie Come-Home (Eric Knight)
  
• Jack and Jill (Louisa May Alcott)
  
• Space and Science-Fiction Plays for Young People (ed. Sylvia E. Kamerman, 1981) [ex-library]
  
• Heidi Grows Up (Charles Tritten)
  
• The Trumpet of the Swan (E. B. White)

adult softcover

• Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)


• The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Anne Rice writing as A.N. Roquelaure, 1983)
  
• Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
  
• The Face on the Wall (Jane Langton, 1998)
  
• A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
  
• A Dog Called Bethlehem (Sam Morse-Brown, 1978)

adult hardcover

• An Anthology of Spanish American Literature (1946)

nonfiction

• Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Keith Topping, 2001) [softcover]
  
• When God Was a Woman (Merlin Stone, 1976) [softcover]
  
• Touched by an Angel (Martha Williamson and Robin Sheets, 1997) [hardcover] tv show
  
• What Can I Do To Make a Difference?: A Positive Action Sourcebook (Richard Zimmerman, 1991) [softcover, ex-library]
  
• The Roald Dahl Quiz Book (Richard Maher & Sylvia Bond, 1994) [softcover]
  
• God's Precious Love (Joni Eareckson Tada, 1990) [hardcover]
  

(auto)biography [softcover]

• Almost a Woman (Esmeralda Santiago, 1998)
  
• Woman of Independence: The Life of Abigail Adams (Susan Provost Beller, 1992)
  
• The Road from Corain (Jill Ker Conway, 1989)
  
• Are You Somebody? (Nuala O'Faolain, 1996)
  
• Growing Up Native American (ed. Patricia Riley, 1992)
  
• The Story of Helen Keller (Lorene A. Hickok, 1958)
  
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

on writing

• The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Writer (Janet E. Grant, 1995) [softcover]
  
• The Writer's Handbook (Allan B. Lefcowitz, 1976) [hardcover, ex-library]
  
• Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Reader for Writers (Marjorie Ford and Jon Ford, 1990) [softcover]
  
• The St. Martin's Guide to Writing (Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper, 1988) [softcover]
  
• Writing the Natural Way: Using Right-Brain Techniques to Release Your Expressive Powers (Gabriele Lusser Rico, 1983) [softcover]
  
• Pain and Possibility: Writing Your Way Through Personal Crisis (Gabriele Rico, 1991) [softcover]

tarot

• The Light and Shadow Tarot
  
• The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (Arthur Edward Waite, 2000) [softcover]
  
• A Complete Guide to the Tarot (Eden Gray, 1970) [hardcover]

pocket-size quote books [hardcover]

• Women
  
• Quotable Women
  
• Witty Women: Wise, Wicked, & Wonderful Words

L. M. Montgomery [softcover]

• Anne of Green Gables (2 copies)
  
• Anne of Avonlea
  
• Anne of The Island
  
• Jane of Lantern Hill

And left over from the last time:

YA softcover

• Hey, Dollface (Deborah Hautzig, 1978)
  
• The Only Alien on the Planet (Kristen D. Randle, 1995)
  
• Letters from the Inside (John Marsden, 1991)
  
• The Pistachio Prescription (Paula Danziger, 1978)
  
• After the Rain (Norma Fox Mazer, 1987)
  
• Missing Pieces (Norma Fox Mazer, 1995)
  
• Wise Child (Monica Furlong, 1987) on hold for gishmi1ish (sorry I completely forgot about it last time you visited)
  
• The Eternal Enemy (Christopher Pike, 1993)

YA hardcover (ex-library)

• Saturday, the Twelfth of October (Norma Fox Mazer, 1975)
  
• Remembering The Good Times (Richard Peck, 1985)

adult softcover

• Daughter of God (Lewis Perdue, 2000)

VHS

• Il Postino (The Postman) (1995)

Comments

[pandorasboxes.livejournal.com]

OH OH OH


-Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty.
-The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Anne Rice writing as A.N. Roquelaure, 1983)
-Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Keith Topping, 2001) [softcover]
-Almost a Woman (Esmeralda Santiago, 1998) (if this is about transgender?)
-Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl


i would love any/all of those. and have to think of a way to repay you.
<333333333333 <33333333333 <3333333333333 <333333333333

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

No problem at all, lovely. They're all yours. (And I've come across another BtVS ep guide or two which I'm gonna look at more after my move, so I'll poke you if I decide to get rid of them as well.)

I totally hadn't realized how Almost a Woman could sound like a transgender story. Oops. It's actually about a Puerto Rican immigrant (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037570521X/sr=8-1/qid=1148960133/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-4631550-6875906?%5Fencoding=UTF8).

(Did you ever get the VHS I sent a while back?)

[pandorasboxes.livejournal.com]

oh, lol, okay. i'm not really interested i Almost a Woman, then. i got all excited, i thought it was tg. it DOES sound like one! I didn't look it up cause i wanted to put my dibs in in case it WAS and someone else wanted it too. LoL.


Yes, i did! I thought I had posted in my journal a thank you for it.. Maybe I thought I did and i didn't. My brain is like.. Poo.. these days. In any case, thank you SO much. I've wanted that movie for forever but they wanted so much money for it on amazon, i couldn't justify spending that much on a VHS. I haven't actually watched it yet because my grandmother and i generally watch movies together during the day and she's not big on teh gay love stories. and then at night i turn on friends dvds to fall asleep to, but at some point soon i have to watch it because i think it will inspire me to write more of my buffy/faith-slash-dawn/amanda fics i'm working on. (yes, yes, i'm actually attempting to write again. shocker, isn't it? i've practically forgotten how to use words by now. it's sad.)

and for future reference, if you *ever* have *anything* buffy you don't want anymore, i'll take it!!! lol. even if i have it already, i never mind having two copies of things. or anything gay/transgender/etc. or anything about depressed youth. those are my three major interests and i generally have to find things on my own. Oh, and also.. i have Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea.. are the other two you listed there in that series as well? i've been instructed by monkeycrackmary to read that series so i'm trying to get them, but i don't have a complete list of the series or anything, i swiped the first two from the bookstore when i worked there, but.. if they are, i'll take those too if i'm not being too greedy. if i am, just slap me. if i have some extra money next month (haha extra money, me?)i gotta make you some mixy cds.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I totally understand claiming dibs :) Were it a shorter list I totally would have coded in Amazon links, but I totally wasn't gonna do that for a list like this :)

IIRC, TITAoTGiL is fairly tame, but I can def. understand not wanting to risk it. Maybe I was having a spacey day when you posted a thank you? Anyway, I'm v. glad it arrived safely.

Yay for getting back into ficwriting. I'm hoping to get back into ficwriting myself.

I will totally try to keep your major interests in mind. I know I have some grrlpower type anthologies which I think include gender issues, and I may be getting rid of (some? of) them (again, for review after my move) so I'll poke you about those as well. Depressed youth isn't much my interest, but I have a whole bunch of zines from back in the day, and some of them might be perzines, so if anything strikes me when I'm (re)reading them (yes, after the move) I'll let you know.

You're totally not being too greedy :P I'm happy to give books (etc.) good homes.

Anne of the Island is next in the series after Anne of Avonlea, so I can put it aside for you as well. Jane of Lantern Hill isn't part of the Anne books, though.

Yay for mix CDs! (But don't worry if you don't end up being able to. Like I said, these are all free 'cause if no one claims them they're just going to Goodwill.)

I need to know

[theatre-pixie.livejournal.com]

What did you think of Jane of Lantern Hill? I'm a major L.M. Montgomery fan, but so far I've only managed to read all of the Anne of Green Gables series and the one called The Blue Castle (at least, that's what I think it's called).

I'd lay claim to a few of those, but my bookshelves are over-populated as is. I have decided that I'm in need of larger shelves, not less books. 'Cause I'm a book whore like that.

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

If it weren't for the whole "Other Side of the World" thing, I'd be claiming A Woman of Independence, The Road from Coorain (I don't have my own copy of that) and The Story of Helen Keller (for the almost sole reason that it's by Hick!)

So many favourites on that list!

[hedy.livejournal.com]

To kill a Mockingbird?

Re: I need to know

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I think I read Jane of Lantern Hill, but honestly can't remember it.

I loved The Blue Castle -- and the Emily trilogy -- when I read it years ago. Really should reread at some point.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

My impulse is to say of course I'd send them, but recalling how expensive it was to send a package to *Canada* years ago, perhaps I'd better not.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Is that a request? I'll gladly set it aside for you.

[hedy.livejournal.com]

Yes, sorry.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

No problem. My initial reaction to the comment was to formulate an explanation of *why* I was getting rid of the book, and then I realized you were probably just laying dibs on it, so I thought I should clarify.

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

Unfortunetly all the books that I want I already have and all the other books look like things I would take out of the library. *le sigh*

Re: I need to know

[theatre-pixie.livejournal.com]

Oh, I adored The Blue Castle. I think it was one of Montgomery's best. I intend to own it one day.

I haven't read any of the Emily books either. They are farther down my list of "books I should read," partly because I don't own them, partly because I have so many others I ought to read sitting on my bookshelf, and partly because I never remember to go to the library (I tend to forget that this town even has a library).

[laynamarya.livejournal.com]

Can I have Il Postino? I love that movie. :)

[sk8eeyore.livejournal.com]

I would love to have the "a waist is a terrible thing to mind" and "Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes" magnets. I could get them from you when I come to visit this summer.

Also, there's a book called Ludie's Song? It just jarred me to see that, because 1988 is about the same time I started writing and illustrating my own books about a character named Ludie and at that age was so convinced I had invented the name myself :)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it more than I'd expected to. And I'll gladly set it aside for you.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

No problem.

I'd never heard of the name before I read that book (or since, except for your AOL screenname) though Googling gives me an assortment of different hits.

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

Have been thinking about this... would it be too expensive to send them to a friend of mine in California? She's probably coming out here to visit me in the next few months, so she can bring them with her.

Fribbles!

[carpdeus.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to Friendly's in years :( They closed the restaurant that used to be in Cincy and I live on the fringe of the current territory. I'm gonna have to go to Dayton sometime this weekend and get a Fribble.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

California's fine. E-mail me the address, and I'll send them along.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

How wonderfully generous of you, Elizabeth. I'd like to claim the Tarot books and the SE Hinton. :)

I also have the lesbian erotica book all packaged up for you, and it's going out in tomorrow's post to your work addy.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

W00t! (On all counts.) Do you want The Light and Shadow Tarot -- a deck which comes with a booklet? (Which now that I'm asking I seem to have misplaced. Le sigh.)

[lone-wandering.livejournal.com]

If no one's claimed them already, I'd love to take Interview with the Vampire, SciFi Plays for Young People, and that bumper sticker off your hands.

Muchas gracias :-).

LOVE.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

They're all yours. I'll bring them on Friday :)

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

If you find the deck, send it. But don't strain yourself looking. You've got other stuff you need to be concentrating on. :)

[wisdomeagle]

I would like to claim:

The Pistachio Prescription by Paula Danzinger
Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott
The Trumpet of the Swan by EB White (assuming that, unlike my edition, there aren't any pages missing)


Thank you. I love you. And, I'm back. (At least for now.)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love you, darling. (sangerin and I were just sharing our concern about you.)

I will check to make sure that my copy of The Trumpet of the Swan is not missing any pages :)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I knew it had to be in the bags somewhere, so it was gonna bug me until I found it :) Didn't take too long, though, so don't worry.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Indeed my edition has no pages missing :)