I had a weird thrill of fear last night when I went out to my BookCrosser's meeting. I wanted Lee to come with me because I was scared to be in the 'bad' end of town on my own in the dark. Lee refused to come because let's face it, he would've been bored to tears so I had to drive the car into town and park it on Ghuznee St and walk to Olive cafe all on my own and convinced that I was about to be attacked.
I blame my upbringing. All this stranger danger stuff and being told not to catch the bus after dark and everything. At every moment I was on a main road in plain view of people and cars, but I was still scared and I locked the car doors once I was inside.
On the other hand the meeting was really nice. Olive cafe is expensive but the service was friendly and the room was warm. I like the other BookCrossers, they're a really nice bunch and friendly as anything. I took a huge stack of books so as to make some shelf space and some of them were taken, which is nice. I managed to procure two lovely vintage books, one is an Alexandre Dumas title and the other is an account of Scot's voyage into the Antarctic. Just beautiful little books that I will either keep forever or pass onto Rachel who also loves old books.
Lee is frustrated because he's having problems with the tech. Something about the wireless? I don't really know but it might mean we can't watch more Veronica Mars tonight and that makes me sad.
I got two trademe purchases delivered yesterday: a long sleeve tshirt and fabric for Zephfi's quilt. I'm still waiting on a pair of pants, another long sleeve t and about 6 more fabrics. Fingers crossed for today.
Tonight is the grand night of ordering off Amazon.co.uk. They have Manos the Hands of Fate for three pounds, so I'm getting one for me and one for Seraph. Plus I will order Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! and the 5,000 fingers of Dr T. Maybe some Nightwing comics as well, depends how crazy I'm feeling.
Todays socks are the super-long purple tubes with striping at the top. They are baggy around my ankles but they are resolutely staying mid-thigh height so I am very happy indeed.
Point of Fashion: Purple strip dream socks
Current Obsession: ordering off amazon