Muckedy Muck

The upheaval continues at Bookstore Central as we try to drag/carry/wheel as many bookshelves from our Magaziney counterpart into the store. By an ingenius (and possibly impractical) formation we have added several new bookshelves, and blocked off the window. StitcherAngel worries that this will now be the place where books go to die. Hopefully they will, in fact, have a more merciful fate.

Spent alot of today up and down ladders, stool, and other height assisting devices as all the new shelves are several times larger than my small person. I suppose I shall have to get used to it til the faery wings are fully operational. But we are already threatening customers with giggles by pixie dust should they misbehave. It has worked so far, so perhaps rigging the wings is not too far off.

Like our store at the moment, this post is pretty higgeldy piggeldy, and lacks a clear purpose, so let me share a few highlights of today:

explaining to a lady that the Portuguese language book she bought in 1966 with accompanying records is almost certainly out-of-print.

explaining that I hold with fair certainty that the kama sutra is an Indian documet (not Chinese, nor Japanese or even Korean), and that I believed that it did sell fairly well. This may sound easy, but you try doing this while gazing with said customer at a picture of folks doing improbable things on an elephant - sometimes I wonder at the shopping list involved for these sorts of things - date night with the hubby, hmm, must not forget to pick up elephant....

telling yet more people that the wonderful article telling people that they might purchase a book about Clipper Planes from our shop was quite wrong, as the book is out of print for the near future (the author of said lovely front page article believed he was doing us a favour by instructing people to rush to our store for a book it is impossible for us to get)...

There's more but I've got class upcoming, so I must now turn my thoughts to early childhood studies, and the effect of violent media upon small children. If this sounds thrilling, you really need to take two asprin and hie yourself off to bed; for the rest of you, I'm sure you can sense with what anticipation I am approaching this class.....