Hey Shaughnessy, what are ya doin’ today?
Going shopping…
Oh?
For books…with other people’s money…
When Head Office gives you permission to go on a shopping spree you don’t ask questions, you just go. So this morning I tucked the envelope containing the portion of the book budget I had allotted for today, alongside two copies of the “wish list” I had printed off of Amazon into my purse, and Jersey and I grabbed two folding wheeled carts and headed for the nearest bookstore.
Of the 80+ titles on the list we were only able to get about 30, mostly because the prices for books are much higher here than they are online or back home – but we had limited options, and I’m still pretty pleased with what we managed to find.
And really? Letting me loose in a bookstore with someone else’s money? And no real restriction on what I’m allowed to buy (well okay, I wouldn’t have been allowed to get away with Fifty Shades of…ugh, but who would *want* to?) – that is the equivalent of purposely letting the fox loose in the henhouse…or, as my Mum would say – putting Dracula in charge of the bloodbank.
Add to that I spent the rest of the morning untangling some complicated situations via some very much needed phone calls (sometimes you just need to hear that other person’s voice), and I would say that even though I didn’t join the rest of the crew on bungee jumping (dangling upside down is just …not my thing), this was still a very successful day…