Nice Book-filled Day
May. 14th, 2011 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalI had a really nice book-filled day today.
I volunteered at the library this morning and covered 2 of the 3 pages of picklist instead of just half so that my partner in crime there could get her husband to the airport on time.
Then I checked out the library book sale and came away with $23 in purchases. It feels so weird not looking for Choose Your Own Adventure books!
I stopped home for a quick lunch to find that the book my father gave to a colleague in Kenya was journaled: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8399501
My road trip began after lunch. First I stopped by our OBCZ in Crystal City, Virginia, in the hotel where we had the BookCrossing Convention. It was strange being back there a month later. I lived there for 4 days and feel so intimately attached to the place. There were about 40 books still on the shelves but I added a baker's dozen so it's in very good shape at the moment.
My next stop was driving up to Baltimore. My local BookCrossing group and the group from Pennsylvania are meeting up there tomorrow, but I can't make it as I'll be going to the zoo to see Granger, Draco, and Zabini (and some other animals with names that are much less awesome). The pickings were REALLY slim. I got a few handfuls of children's books for the book festival next week, but there were two people there taking the books from the carts before they could even hit the distribution bins (one was a mother of two young children and the other one was from a program in DC that tries to encourage fathers to read to their children--she kept boasting about how she'd driven ALL the way from Washington, D.C. to visit the Book Thing. And I'm like, well, I drove further than you--stop stealing all the good books!). Really, it was fine. They need the books more than I do. But I was disappointed in the pickings. Several shelves were almost completely empty! I only managed to pick up 131 books during the trip; hardly worth the gas money. And OMG gas is so expensive!
I wish I could go to the bag sale at Pohick tomorrow and fill up bags of children's books, but I'll be at the zoo. Oh well. I'll be doing MY part in bringing children's books. It's up to everyone else in the group to help out now.
I picked up some birthday presents for Mom on my way home and found some LEGO minifigs at Walmart (after I drooled over the new Pirates of the Caribbean LEGO sets). I haven't opened them yet to verify the insides, but I think now I'm just missing one of them from the series. I hope I can find her somewhere! Of course I still need 3 more Musketeers (what good is one Musketeer on his own?)
I volunteered at the library this morning and covered 2 of the 3 pages of picklist instead of just half so that my partner in crime there could get her husband to the airport on time.
Then I checked out the library book sale and came away with $23 in purchases. It feels so weird not looking for Choose Your Own Adventure books!
I stopped home for a quick lunch to find that the book my father gave to a colleague in Kenya was journaled: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8399501
My road trip began after lunch. First I stopped by our OBCZ in Crystal City, Virginia, in the hotel where we had the BookCrossing Convention. It was strange being back there a month later. I lived there for 4 days and feel so intimately attached to the place. There were about 40 books still on the shelves but I added a baker's dozen so it's in very good shape at the moment.
My next stop was driving up to Baltimore. My local BookCrossing group and the group from Pennsylvania are meeting up there tomorrow, but I can't make it as I'll be going to the zoo to see Granger, Draco, and Zabini (and some other animals with names that are much less awesome). The pickings were REALLY slim. I got a few handfuls of children's books for the book festival next week, but there were two people there taking the books from the carts before they could even hit the distribution bins (one was a mother of two young children and the other one was from a program in DC that tries to encourage fathers to read to their children--she kept boasting about how she'd driven ALL the way from Washington, D.C. to visit the Book Thing. And I'm like, well, I drove further than you--stop stealing all the good books!). Really, it was fine. They need the books more than I do. But I was disappointed in the pickings. Several shelves were almost completely empty! I only managed to pick up 131 books during the trip; hardly worth the gas money. And OMG gas is so expensive!
I wish I could go to the bag sale at Pohick tomorrow and fill up bags of children's books, but I'll be at the zoo. Oh well. I'll be doing MY part in bringing children's books. It's up to everyone else in the group to help out now.
I picked up some birthday presents for Mom on my way home and found some LEGO minifigs at Walmart (after I drooled over the new Pirates of the Caribbean LEGO sets). I haven't opened them yet to verify the insides, but I think now I'm just missing one of them from the series. I hope I can find her somewhere! Of course I still need 3 more Musketeers (what good is one Musketeer on his own?)
