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last minute randomness
Sep. 28th, 2007 10:56 pmTomorrow, far earlier in the AM than I would like, the child and I are off to Viable Paradise (where I am staff this year), with a detour through Connecticut to pick up ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala. In preparation for the workshop I have spent the last several days sorting and packing up manuscripts, and most of them have now been hauled out to the car. Yes, they fell very clearly into the category of Things I Should Not Lift, but they needed to get from the house to the car and there's no one else to do it, so don't give me a hard time. (It's your fault for not living closer, you know.) Anyhow, I'm going to make someone else (or someones elses) unload them at the other end.
During the course of this, I discovered something astounding:
Items in the Staples aisle at Stop & Shop are significantly cheaper than the very same items in Staples itself.
For example: a 40pk of small binder clips
Staples aisle: $1.99
Staples: $3.69
(Staples is a big office supply chain and Stop & Shop is a big grocery chain, for the non-USians among you. Stop & Shop contracts out its office supply aisle to Staples.)
Seriously, though: WTF? That makes no sense at all.
I'm looking forward to the week ahead. I'm also hoping to get some writing done of my own while I'm there, though opportunities may be scarce. Still, I'm hoping some of the energy rubs off on me, because I could sure use it. In particular I'd like to get a lot farther in my first draft of The Fifth Sun -- I've got all my research library books at hand, and I just need to find the map I printed out of Vatican City. I also expect that I will be only sporadically checking in with LJ and email. Maybe I'll work on Miledrop, I dunno. I'm still sort of in my sabbatical-from-writing, too much going on in Real Life to do much more than tinker.
Anyhow, now I only have to deal with the last bits of VP stuff, clean the entire house, do laundry, pack, take a shower, pet the kitties, and go to sleep. I had promised myself that I would finish painting the border in my bathroom before the end of September, but I think I'm going to just have to give myself a pass until I get back.
It's 11:00pm. I guess I better get my ass off the computer.
Hey, try not to miss me too much. (-:
matociquala. In preparation for the workshop I have spent the last several days sorting and packing up manuscripts, and most of them have now been hauled out to the car. Yes, they fell very clearly into the category of Things I Should Not Lift, but they needed to get from the house to the car and there's no one else to do it, so don't give me a hard time. (It's your fault for not living closer, you know.) Anyhow, I'm going to make someone else (or someones elses) unload them at the other end.During the course of this, I discovered something astounding:
Items in the Staples aisle at Stop & Shop are significantly cheaper than the very same items in Staples itself.
For example: a 40pk of small binder clips
Staples aisle: $1.99
Staples: $3.69
(Staples is a big office supply chain and Stop & Shop is a big grocery chain, for the non-USians among you. Stop & Shop contracts out its office supply aisle to Staples.)
Seriously, though: WTF? That makes no sense at all.
I'm looking forward to the week ahead. I'm also hoping to get some writing done of my own while I'm there, though opportunities may be scarce. Still, I'm hoping some of the energy rubs off on me, because I could sure use it. In particular I'd like to get a lot farther in my first draft of The Fifth Sun -- I've got all my research library books at hand, and I just need to find the map I printed out of Vatican City. I also expect that I will be only sporadically checking in with LJ and email. Maybe I'll work on Miledrop, I dunno. I'm still sort of in my sabbatical-from-writing, too much going on in Real Life to do much more than tinker.
Anyhow, now I only have to deal with the last bits of VP stuff, clean the entire house, do laundry, pack, take a shower, pet the kitties, and go to sleep. I had promised myself that I would finish painting the border in my bathroom before the end of September, but I think I'm going to just have to give myself a pass until I get back.
It's 11:00pm. I guess I better get my ass off the computer.
Hey, try not to miss me too much. (-:
