An older gentleman asked today if my gigantic engagement ring was from an Arab oil sheik. I giggled.
If you buy the Old Fashioned Tomato Rice soup at Au Bon Pain, you will learn two things. The first: it is reduced sodium. The second: it requires more salt.
Tomorrow Lauren is in high-demand. And today I answered a lot of questions about chapter books for a lady with the Horn Book. And maybe you'll be proud or maybe you'll be disappointed, but I did not pester this lady about the Maira Kalman Horn Book event. I didn't even bring it up. But Ms. Book seemed to think that I am a superstar of the bookstore world, which is always nice to hear. Especially when you see no forseeable end to being in the bookstore world.
Some other lady made me give her a lot of recommendations as I was very obviously on my way to lunch, jacket (hey look, I remembered a jacket; happy Rocktober!) and bag and everything. She got her advice, and I told her that now I needed her advice on where to eat lunch. She told me she works for Harvard, therefore eats for free, therefore had no idea. Special no thank you to her.
And LAST NIGHT there was a guy who called the store for a mail order, and made me wait on a 3-way call to his daughter-in-law in D.C. and didn't tell her I was lurking in phonespace. It was like a flashback to junior high where you call your friend and then you call the boy and your friend stays quiet and you ask the boy what he thinks of your friend... SLIMY!
So that's the bookworld, sort of. Erin, are we getting ice cream or what?
Stay tuned for game 2, folks, happening soon!
--Your Queen of Space
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