Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Tuesday, Jul. 31, 2007 - 11:36 p.m.

Ow.

I worked out for the second day in a row tonight, and just because I felt I wasn't sore enough beforehand, I really knocked myself out to make sure I hit every single muscle group I've got, and wow, does it hurt. Everywhere. Like, even the toes of my left foot. Ow.

I read about a site today called Freecycle, where people post about stuff they have to give away and others who live in the same community can take it or say what they're looking for. Unfortunately, I read about it on Yahoo, where everyone else in the world did, too, so the site was out of commission for a while today and is still running really slowly. And I can't access the Los Angeles groups at all. The same article mentioned a few other organizations that do the same thing, but they're all Yahoo groups, which I think has the single worst interface for a group dynamic ever invented. It's seriously just frigging useless rot when it comes to trying to read messages. So I'm going out on a limb to start my own message board. I have enough environment-minded friends who happen to have lots of environment-minded friends, so I really don't think it'll be a problem getting the word out for it. I think the guy who came up with the whole idea is pretty freaking righteous; it's a great idea. I have something I'm going to get rid of, so rather than toss it out, I find someone else who needs or wants it, and if I need or want something, I find someone who's giving it away. Seriously, what's better than that? :)

I just wish Yahoo hadn't doomed the poor guy's site to a denial of service charge. Alas.

The last 2 days of work have been really difficult with all the hyper-rude people slinging serious negative energy. I almost snapped back at a woman today. I opened my mouth to ask her what the hell, that I'd been polite to her, so maybe she should try a little politeness herself, when the less spontaneous part of my brain kicked in to offer up the suggestion I not do that. I listened to it, but when I gave her the book she was looking for, I just shoved it at her, said "here," and walked off. She had the good grace to look slightly sheepish and say thank you. I hate that there are people in this world who make you be bitchy back before they suck up their bullshit and behave in a civilized manner. I can get bitchy better than most, but I prefer not to. It irritates me when I have to do it just to be treated with respect. That's fucked up.

I might be coaching a young girl who wants to take private acting lessons. I helped her out when she came into the store, and she and her mother have taken a shining to me. That might be fun. And hopefully a little bit lucrative. :) I'd love to be able to do my own thing and still pay bills. That would be wonderful. :)

My ears are screamingly loud, and I don't know why.

You would think that with all the hundreds of thousands of manuscripts submitted to editors/publishers each year, and with the infinitesimal number of them that actually get published, that those books which do make it to publication would actually be well-written, wouldn't you?

Sadly, no. We get a lot of advance copies of things to the store, which are free to any one of us who wants them, so I pick up a lot of things on my break and start reading. And the vast majority of them are really not well-written. It's kind of astounding. Today's book was one called "The Art Thief," which is totally a retooled ripoff of the DaVinci Code, and it was so horrible, I couldn't get through the first very short chapter. I also read a good bit of "The Manny" that way, and while it isn't necessarily badly written, it isn't a good book. Unless like whiny, privileged heroines writing in the first person and complaining about their lives as they have extramarital affairs with the graduate students they hire to mentor their sons. Which I don't.

There's also one in the breakroom right now that was written by one of the company executives, and I won't even go into that one. Yowza. Let's just say some people truly suck at dialogue, and leave it at that...

I have 4 days off after tomorrow...yay!!! 'Course, I have to spend them doing taxes, but still. 4 days! :)

I have to go, now. Typing hurts.

Peace out,
Katie

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