The Topic of Great Randomness

[crazy_bookworm]

illirium: I love used bookstores as well. I have found so many books that I have wanted but they're out of print in the regular bookstores or crazy expensive (like Catch-22 is $22 new, but I found it for $6 at a used bookstore. The covers are falling off now, and I have to tape it back together, but that's a different story.) I get a squee of excitement every time I find a cool book at a used bookstore.

trialia: *gently hugs* I hope the pain gets better.

bookworms: I hope you have fun with your summer! I'm a month and a half into mine, and it feels like just yesterday I was writing finals.

To continue with the getting injured stories: last Saturday my brother accidentally slammed my finger in the car door. It was throbbing for a while, and I had to put it in ice to make the swelling go down. I didn't know if my finger was broken or not (still don't, but it hasn't hurt since 5 pm last Saturday, so I'm assuming it's not broken), but I still went to my friend's grad banquet that night, whoo! I also have a big bruise on my arm that I have no clue where it came from.

I got a Hello Kitty plushie for my birthday from my brother, and three pairs of Hello Kitty socks from my sister. I squealed in excitement when I received them, even though I am a dignified *static noise* year old. I also got a dress, a skirt, and five tops. It was a good day of shopping.

[Trialia]

Wolf, Bookworm - thanks. Plushie things are good!

Please, if you're going to talk about the World Cup, you mind doing it in a different thread? I'm trying to get AWAY from that as much as possible. The disadvantage of living in "football city", everyone's been blowing air horns for days.

[96bookworms]

I went to my friend's Bar Mitzvah yesterday, which was fun, but very confusing (I can't read or speak Hebrew!!) I also went to my friend's lake house, and we swam and I got to meet some of her new friends. (she moved...) I also got the awesome Wicked Grimmerie, which is amazing by the way!!!!!

I am also officially out of school, as of Thursday, but I'm sad 'cuz my friend is moving to Atlanta on Tuesday But, I am now an official 8th grader...I admit that I am younger than most...

Anyways...it's late...To Wolf and Trialia: hope you get better soon! And don't get hurt again over the summer, the weather's too warm for casts!!

Oh...who's watching the World Cup? I am rooting for South Africa all the way (obviously) but America is good too...Did annyone hear about how the USA team got delayed from their lodge by an old elephant? Well, their not in Kansas anymore...or anywhere else in the US for that matter...

[Wolf]

Um.. in lesser pain news... I discovered that my maybe-broken-and-not-healed-right thumb is a really bad place of a pinched nerve. I'm really glad it doesn't have to be re-broken or anything, but now I have to take two anti-inflammatories twice a day for five days.. and completely splint my thumb to my hand. By the way.. I'm right handed.

But um.. we need a big soft cushy bubble.. and.. Trialia.. plushie things.. for your birthday you're getting plushie things..

Also I had something else to say but it's 1 am and I'm really tired. Plus I dealt with a really stupid person tonight, so... I know you guys understand the frustrations and tired-ness you get when you have to say the same. exact. thing. over. and. over. and. OVER AGAIN. (seriously, it was a conversation about an hour long. of me saying the same exact thing.) UGH.

But I'm going to put my air on high and climb into bed now. Love you guys. <3

[Trialia]

OWIE!

How'd that happen -- or can you not type well enough to tell us until later?

Sore, but can tell if I type slowly.

Simply put: gotta love having hypermobility-type Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Or not. :/

In more depth: I was checking into FourSquare on my cell phone while walking to the bus stop to go home from choir practice Wednesday night, tripped and went flying, landed with my whole weight - and I'm not exactly light - on my right arm. That shoulder got partially dislocated forwards (anterior subluxation) and stuck when the muscle went into spasm. I got the bus to the ER to get them to put it back for me. Waited 3 hours in there, holding my right arm with my left all that while. They called me in, X-rayed the right shoulder, and rotated it back in while giving me some nitrous oxide (laughing gas... I giggle endlessly on that stuff, which I like). But shortly after that, the left, so tired from holding up the right, came out - fully - backwards (posterior dislocation). So they had to X-ray that and reduce it, then X-ray it again to make sure it was back. They sent me home in a hospital gown at 0400, in a taxi, with both arms in collar-and-cuff foam slings. I had to wear that gown from then til this afternoon, when my stepmother came up and helped me shower and change!

So my GP gave me oral morphine, and I am in this contraption 'til fracture clinic at the hospital on Thursday.

[nita13579]

Trialia: OOH! That has to hurt very badly! I hope you get better!!
I recently discovered the wonders of ordering things online. Two YW wristbands came in that I made for my best friend and I . They have the The Young Wizard Series printed on the back, and either Nita Or Kit on the front. The one that says kit is for my best friend. It came out a little better than the Nita one, also he is a boy, so I think ill keep the Nita one. My mom is gonna have a fit when I tell her I want one that says Dairine....

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

I'm slowly working my way down the list, and was happy to add two books in particular : A Wizard of Earthsea (I've heard great things about it) and A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (ditto).

Whatever you do, stay away from the SciFi Channel version of Earthsea -- the director's image of it was so far off that LeGuin bad-mouthed him in public. (Hmm, that's not the link I meant, looking at it again -- there's one where the director says "this is what the books were really about" and LeGuin goes "hell no", but I can't find it at the moment.)

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

both my shoulders got dislocated wednesday. i am in a double sling and on oral morphine for the next week and limited typing. damn my body! :P

OWIE!

How'd that happen -- or can you not type well enough to tell us until later?

[Trialia]

both my shoulders got dislocated wednesday. i am in a double sling and on oral morphine for the next week and limited typing. damn my body! :P

[nita13579]

Wow... I haven't posted in this thread for a while. You are very right, illiriam, this thread has the most posts I have ever seen!!!! Let's see if we can keep it going!!
Where am I you ask? School. I'm surprised that it lets me on here. Most of the good sites are blocked.... Yeah... the teachers let us on the computers. Bill Nye the Science Guy is on T.V. It's the computers or Bill. I really like Bill Nye, but... I like this better.

[illiriam]

I feel like there are a lot of posts. Maybe that is just me though, since I haven't been on for more than a minute for like two weeks. So much for a relaxing summer.
I work for my dad at the mini golf we own, and I have been picking up as many hours as I can before our other employee (aka my brother) gets out of school and needs hours too. Plus, I have a car insurance I need to pay off. And new shoes to buy.

But I never really appreciated used bookstores up until recently. I thought Barnes and Nobles had spoiled me, and no one else could ever win my heart. Well they have. My best friend and I went on a used bookstore search, and went to all of the ones in the immediate area. I made out like a bandit. I can not stress the greatness of small bookstores, and their superiority. Maybe not in selection, but in price and service. Now my "to read" list is like a page and a half long. It is a wonderful thing.
I'm slowly working my way down the list, and was happy to add two books in particular : A Wizard of Earthsea (I've heard great things about it) and A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (ditto).

And Wolf: I don't exactly know where the thread is, but I seem to remember reading that there were two options for the book signing's reschedule-ment. One was at the end of summer, and one was shortly into the school year. Anyone else remember anything more specific?

And a blanket congrats to anyone who is graduating or has graduated. Anything. Middle school, high school, college. Congrats to all.

[Wolf]

Heya, special agent! ^_^ Wizards Unite!!

Sooooo this weekend my mom and I went up to New York to visit my cousins... when we got back home, the CVS sign told us there was a tornado watch!! Haaaaahahahahaa!

Oh by the way, Doctor Who fans... last time I checked, I have 21 episodes saved for when my parents go away and I am left to my own devices. So when you don't see me for three days or so... er... you know where I am. Right here. On my couch. With a remote and big dang glass of chocolate milk. And Doctor Who. =D

And PLEASE for the love of sanity has anyone heard anything about rescheduling the signing????????????? I LIVE TOO DARN CLOSE TO MISS OUT ON THIIIIISSSSS..... *whimpers* (for those of you who only *kind* of understand... I still haven't gotten the new book yet and am holding out for DD so I can buy it & get it signed all in one)

[crazy_bookworm]

Welcome, Special Agent! I hope you enjoy it here!

To keep this from becoming a one-liner: My friend's grad is tomorrow and I'm excited. I have a short black dress for it, flats, and a silver shrug thing. I'm going to look GOOD.

[special_agent_Lex]

Dai stiho! I'm new here and still new. Wa ha ha! Together the wizards of this great nation will make a greater nation!

[Mona0622]

bookworms: That's too bad about missing Tamora Pierce's booksignings. I've read some of her novels and enjoy them a lot. My favorite series is her Alanna series and reread them every once in a while. I have not yet read her newest addition to the Tortall legends.

wolf: I'm going to have to agree to disagree with you on this topic. I am pleased (I wouldn't go so far as to say happy) with the current situation with the Stanley Cup.

bookgirl: I'm also enjoying the ablity to free-read now that school is out. Unfortunately, I still have some work to do for my Study Abroad. I've still read a lot though.

crazy_bookworm: Be glad that your work starts at 10am. I need to get up at 5:30am for my job and get home around 6pm. There is a 45 minute drive to my work. My work day goes from 7-4 (but I usually leave around 5). I
am an intern at the same place that my dad works and he leaves late almost every day. I get to leave early on Friday, though so I still don't work over 40 hours.

I wish I had 1 week to just relax and do nothing. I would be able to use that time to catch on my 'me stuff'. I've gone from one thing directly to the next without any relaxing time. And now, on top of work, my CreateSpace deadline is quickly approaching. I'm afraid that I'm not going to have time to finish editing my story. I really want to get this done in time this year, especially because I missed out on it last year. It just seems like there is so much to do in less than one month. Hopefully, I can do it.