Memes on a Plane*!

[active_apathy]

Three things. Three shall be the number of the things, and the number of the things shall be three.

Or something like that.

Firstly, I'm mildly disturbed by sentences starting with "I'm looking for a book..." This especially holds in situations where I'm saying it in a bookshop, and consequently feeling utterly stupidlike for declaring myself to be looking for a book while in a bookshop. Since the whole searching-for-a-stack-of-paper-glued-along-one-side thing is pretty much a given in a bookshop, this brings me to wonder what other socially-invisible phrasing could be used. This, dear readers, is where you come in. What would you use?

Next, I've learned of the existence of a tea shop! Where they sell tea! Many kinds of tea! Many kinds of tea that smell pretty! Many, many kinds of tea! Camellia sinensipreciousssssesssss that I wantsssssessss! Mmmmmtea.

So, I now have tea with mint and chocolate in. It has much tasty.

Lastly, I have a meme, nicked from amyrose2021 and lesslikeyou.

You are required to manoeuvre straight down this trench look through my icons and pick out your very favourite one. Then, you right-click and go to 'properties', then copy the image URL. Once you've done this, comment to this entry, posting the icon as an image (ie, <img src="icon URL goes here">).

*May not actually involve a plane.

Comments

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

*points to icon*
It has served me well.


Do you know the author or title or genre of the book? Today I was bookshopping, and I suddenly remembered a book recommendation, only I couldn't remember the author. I was about to go up to the counter and ask "Do you have [title]?" (only with more "hi"s and "yeah"s and "um"s), but then I spotted it on the shelves. *whew!*

"I'm looking for [blah]" or "Do you know if you have [dinglehicky]?" also work.

Conversely, I have a perverse reluctance to ask directions in a bookshop. I spent about half an hour wandering Books Kinokuniya trying to find the comic books section (and another fifteen minutes trying to figure out the shelving system). Ye gods, that place is enormous. And twisty. It has nooks!


Memes on a plane
And there's not a goddamn thing you can do about it!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I've taken to giving bookshop employees ISBNs, where known, when looking for books that I couldn't find on the shelf. My theory is that it savesa lot of time otherwise spent on spelling and searching and such.