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[susandennis]

What a great walk. Downtown Seattle just rocks. It is so alive and so full of wonderful stuff. I forget about how great it is. Maybe I need to concentrate on finding me a gig downtown... hmmmm

I stopped into Barnes and Noble to check out the You Are SO Cursed! situation. What a different experience than yesterday! Just as I got to the section I thought was right, a really nice young woman stopped me and asked if she could help. I said "I'm looking for the young adult section, is this is?" and she said it was an asked what I was looking for. I told her and she couldn't find it on the shelf so she went to the computer. The computer was giving her trouble and she said she would go to the front computers. I told her not to bother - that I could sure do that but she insisted.

She came back in a bit to say that the computer labeled it Teen.. which, as it turns out, is an upgrade from young adult... (who knew?). But it wasn't in the teen section either. She said she would check the back and I told her not to worry, that I would come back another day. She insisted. I let her because as it happened she looked like she was the older sister of the girl on the cover.

Sure enough, she came back with a stack in her hand and the first thing out of her mouth was "Cool cover!!" She handed me a copy and immediately put the rest on the shelf and faced it out!!! She's my hero.

Borders doesn't have it yet and from what I could gather from the guy who is likely a close relative of the sales clerk from yesterday, they might or might not get it in but he can have it for me in a few days...

But all in all the trip downtown was excellent. I got some good pix but I need to learn to hold that damn thing still. The focus on it isn't that good anyway and I don't need to make it blurrier!

Now it is time for General Tso's Chicken. If you need me, I'll be across at the deli and then home at the couch/table munching...

Comments

[pinkrose70.livejournal.com]

Nice shopping pics. Hope you enjoy your Gen Tso as much as I did mine earlier this week.

Here's something I ran across:

http://www.echonyc.com/~erich/tso.htm

[nezbitthecat.livejournal.com]

Lean up against something. I try to hold my camera against a telephone pole to keep it steady.

[susandennis]

EXCELLENT suggestion! Sometimes the obvious just gets right by me. Thanks!

[nezbitthecat.livejournal.com]

I really have to do it on those night shots. Not always possible, but you get the idea.

Where did you live in NJ? I grew up in Fair Lawn.

[susandennis]

We lived in Teaneck. But it was a zillion years ago... 1951-1952.

[nezbitthecat.livejournal.com]

I was there from 1950 - 1968, then back to East Orange/Bloomfield 1970 - 1977, only a million years ago. My father owned an apartment building in Teaneck and a Launderette on Main Street in Hackensack during the late 40's and early 50's.

[susandennis]

Wild. We moved from the tiny city appartment to the family's first house in New Jersey. My sister was born there (a hospital in Riveredge). And then me moved to Des Moines, Ill.

[nezbitthecat.livejournal.com]

Odd. I discovered the Fair Lawn house (http://rwhowell.com/pics/fuji/pub/dscf0009.jpg) I grew up in for sale on a trip a couple of Christmasses ago. I never could get it together enough to go through the charade of being an "interested buyer" so that I could walk through the place after forty-plus years. I would have been busted as a fake when I'd start making comments, or looking in the cubbyholes I would play in as a tot.