Sorry I'm so neglectful of you, my LJ comrades.

[derien]

I haven't even looked at my friends page yet, today.  I've been reading "Becoming Alien" by Rebecca Ore, canceling and rescheduling appointments I stupidly made for next week (we're leaving for Florida Saturday morning and won't be back until next Saturday), and calling the cleaners about my dress. 

That would be the black velvet one I wore to the ren faire in Ohio.  I took it to get it dry cleaned the same day I dropped off my uniform shirts, but when I picked up the shirts the dress wasn't ready, and then the receipt slip I thought I had stuck on the front of the fridge disappeared and I forgot all about it until late last night as I was trying to get to sleep and my brain was popping with a million things.  Anyway, they still have it, and they'll hold it for 90 days anyway, and then call me before they get rid of it, so maybe I can walk out to get it tomorrow morning if it's not so wet.  Today it's looking as though the sky could dump on me at any time.

I have assembled most of my clothes for the trip.  The one thing I can't find is the brown sundress with giraffes on it that I bought for putting on over my bathingsuit.  I'm wondering if I got rid of it, already?  That doesn't seem like me. 

I'm washing my thin jeans by hand because those are the pants I need for Florida, and I've been wearing them the past several days. 

At least I got the Duckling signed off on bag searching yesterday evening, so they don't need to assign someone to watch him for that function while I'm gone next week.  That makes things a little easier on everyone else, as staffing for Tuesdays and Wednesdays is rather tight.  Now he has only handwanding and x-ray to be watched on.  Of course they give the trainees a disincentive to get signed off by giving them Saturday/Sunday weekends while they're in training.  As soon as they get signed off they'll be moved to probably Thursday/Friday weekends, so why would they want to get signed off?  The whole training program is so backward, and it's all because the OJT coordinator, C.E., won't listen when anyone tries to give him feedback on what would work better.


I got the book I ordered from Abebooks - Emily Eden's "Up The Country: Letters to her sister from the upper provinces of India"!  Unfortunately it turns out that it's volume 2 of 2 - that wasn't at all clear to me when I was ordering it - but it should be interesting reading, regardless.  I wonder if I should write to the seller and ask if he has volume 1, also?  I think I should read it in the open air, though, as it appears to be a first edition with all the dust intact.  Not for reading on the plane.

Comments

[phoenikoi.livejournal.com]

Florida? I hope you have a good time. :)

[cyberquail.livejournal.com]

You must have gotten the very last copy of either volume of "Up the Country", because I also just did a search for it on Half.com, and there is not a single version of it in stock :(

Well, if we don't hear from each other before the weekend, have a fantastic, and safe trip to Florida!

xoxoxo!

[cyberquail.livejournal.com]

Oh, duh, you got it on AbeBooks. I looked there just now and they had lots! So- how do I differentiate between the 1st and 2nd volumes so that I can get the one you don't have and we can trade after we're done reading??

[derien.livejournal.com]

It has to be published in or before 1866 (because the book with both volumes in one came out in 1867, and those can be expensive) and this volume has 263 pages, so I'd imagine the first would be roughly the same (whereas of course the both-in-one has over 400 pages). This is also a second edition, and doesn't have the gold leaf and all that the first edition had, so when you get back to the first editions they get very expensive, too.

[derien.livejournal.com]

But, just to let you know, Eor has looked for it, and not found it. That doesn't mean it's not out there, just don't get too frustrated.