sarah_scotti wrote:

Hey Ellie,

Do you have a June reading for us yet?  I'm so excited!  Please, please tell me it's an excuse to run out and buy another book!  (And please tell me it's one that my local B&N will have, because Amazon boxes coming to the house recently have gotten me in hot water.  I am learning to live within the financial cycle of an academic family... summer months are lean.)

Peace!
Sarah

P.S.  And is anyone ready to volunteer for July?

NOOOOOOO!!

No more buying of books.  Sarah!  Now I'm begging you, quit feeding my reading habit.  PLEASE!!!!!

I still have a big list from your recommends that I have yet to be able to finance. 

Ellie, be a pal, put up one we can find online.  PLEASE!!!!!

New England,

Look down the list a little, and you'll find the thread for May's essay, JoAnn Beard's very lovely "The Fourth State of Matter."  I let the discussion fizzle under the weight of some personal stuff, but I am SURE Ellie will do a better job!

Mish,

I'm gonna open up a can of West Virginia ass-whoop on you if you keep this up.

Yes, we have a library.  But it's right beside Friendship Room, so I don't go there any more.  One of the best things about going to grad school:  in the fall, I'll have access to the university library!  I can't wait!

I have not forgotten. It just isn't June yet. Where I am I have another half hour, but I will be asleep by then. I'll be posting my plans for us in the a.m.

mishmont wrote:

sarah_scotti wrote:

Please, please tell me it's an excuse to run out and buy another book!  (And please tell me it's one that my local B&N will have, because Amazon boxes coming to the house recently have gotten me in hot water.

You don't have a library in West Virginia? Or Texas?

Sorry, I can't resist: That explains a lot 

Yes, they have libraries here in Texas, but they expect you to return the books!

Now I ask you, is that reasonable?

Sarah, it wasn't you who let the conversation fizzle, it was us and for my part I apologize.

I was without a computer for much of that time and working two full time jobs.  I took a new position and it overlapped with the commitment I had made to the old position and I owed it to my now former boss to keep my word, so, during finals, which are much harder when it's your masters you're working towards, turns out, and the two jobs and no friggin' internet, I just threw up my hands and said I'll catch 'em next time.

It wasn't you or your article, which I did read and enjoyed.

I promise, I'll do better.