so today was just all-around awful. lulu (satan in pekingese form) chewed up my copy of the loved one, the book we're reading in lit, and since i'm going to need it tomorrow (it even says so on my teacher's website, all ominous and official warning-like), we went out to borders in sterling to get another copy. only it was sold out when we got there. and according to the salesgirl, it was also sold out at tyson's, alexandria, georgetown, manassas, winchester, and every other borders on earth. so then we went back to the car, called barnes and noble, and found out that we'd have to drive all the way to manassas to buy their last copy - which, thankfully, they put on hold (under the name lulu satandog, but, hey, people should know better than let me have the phone unsupervised). so, you know, i got to suffer through a lovely drive to manassas circa rush hour - although it was nice and eight o'clockish when we headed home, so that wasn't so bad. the manassas barnes and noble was good for one other thing, too. see that thing on the right? happily entitled 'nightlight'? yeah, that's the official printed parody of twilight. i started reading it in the store and it was pretty funny - i didn't buy it, though, i saved my/mi madre's book money for j. d. salinger's zooey and franny, which i started and which is wonderful. mostly i'm amused by the fact that there is an actual market for twilight parodies - if there even are official harry potter parodies they aren't on an actual display (like 'nightlight') and definitely didn't come out so early. think about it: harry and co. have been around for over a decade and twilight came out in what, 2006? and it's already spawning parodies. i feel like this is the beginning of the universe righting itself.other things which i found today include:
...well, i'm not actually sure what these are supposed to be. they were just part of the random silly things i bought at target today. while there, i also bought these:
'these' being, respectively, another one of my favorite drinks of all time and my new favorite throw/blankie (since i've finally gotten around to replacing the one i left at meggo's freshman year and never brought home again...speaking of, i think blankie and breadroll deserve their own blog post, m). i just love target. you never know what you'll find there.
and since this post is getting kind of long, i'm moving the midtown review to its own post. read/comment on this for the next ten minutes or so. and maybe listen to breaking by the all american rejects while you type like i am.
