BLARGH.

[apocalypsos]

I could have spent the last hour writing and instead I spent it debating whether or not to skip my overtime. 'Cause, seriously, last night was brutal. And when I say "brutal", I mean that I kept running out to my car on my breaks so I could get the mental stimulation of listening to an "Undead and ..." book on CD.

What? I couldn't find any good books in the fifteen minutes I spent in the library yesterday -- the Scranton library is in a gorgeous old building but the collection sucks on toast -- but the audiobooks section was practically untouched. Except for the one I was looking for, of course. *sigh* I really need to put all of their good disaster books on hold, and they don't even have that many of them. I swear I'm going to end up wasting money on stuff on my Amazon wish list just so I can have stuff I want to read. You can find whatever you want at the library, my ass.

I don't know why I didn't start with the Dexter books on CD, which I also picked up. I think maybe I was punishing myself for being dumb enough to sign up for overtime. I spent half of the night sliding CD books into cardboard cases and the other half putting DVD cases into box sets. Talk about mind-numbingly boring. No wonder my brother quit after two days of it. I'm amazed I'm going in tonight, although I'm mostly hoping that I'll get there and find out they could really use me to do the job I normally do instead of the one I signed up for.

Oh, and did I mention that staring at a conveyor belt long enough gives me a raging case of motion sickness? It took eleven hours, but at the end of the night yesterday I wasn't that far away from projectile vomiting everything I'd eaten in the past week.

So, yeah. Why I'm never taking overtime in this section of the plant ever again, ladies and gentlemen.

Comments

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

I just went ahead and looked. Your library does have an inter-library loan system, as I suspected it did. It looks like you can even use it online.

All you have to do is search for the books online, and if another library in your district has it, they ship it to your library for free. All you have to do is pick it up.

No need for amazon. :)

[lasergirl.livejournal.com]

Have you read the Dexter books before, or are you just picking them up now? (or, CD, rather, you know what I mean). Let me know what you think of them. And there's a new one and it's.... not what I expected. At all.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

As a book addict, I am finding that Paperback Swap is helping my budget. I can read a book and, if it's not a keeper, list it- and usually someone else wants it, which allows me to request a different book. The cost per book is thus about $2.15, which is what it usually costs to mail one. (I pay for the ones I send; whoever sends them to me pays for that.)

[faith21.livejournal.com]

does your library have one of those cooperative programs with other libraries? they'll order books from another town and hold them for you. there's tons of books that my local library doesn't have (in a town of 35,000+) and if they didn't give me that option, i'd be broke from going to borders.

[girl-wonder.livejournal.com]

I totally fell in love with the Dexter books when someone read them out loud to me. Granted, they weren't audio books, but still.