Anodyne
Saturday, May 20, 2006
 
Sunset, and a great warm wind shaking all the trees.

Tang of oil and tar from the works crew's open excavation one block over in the middle of Kingsway.

Bernadette and her lovely blue-eyed infant daughter on their way to the video store.

"A long day," says our man, trying hard to represent maturity and stick-to-itiveness, qualities lacking in many previous encounters. "Wow. Eight solid hours of pricing."

"Every time I see you, you're always talking to someone," sez B., gently disbelieving.

Hyperbole aside:

"Women's fiction" = 300 pieces

"Erotic vampires" = 27 pieces

Mixed trade fiction/nonfiction = 8 linear feet (approx. 750 books)

Those 120 bankers' boxes of science fiction paperbacks in the back room: 1/2 box (119.5 boxes to go!)

Four-figure sales.

Off to soak my aging, arthritic hands!

(Well, secret stop first)

Update, 11pm: vanilla and black currant, waffle cone
- posted by cjb @ 9:11 PM


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