+ most of the posts on my friends page from today are from people in Seattle. *~ oooooh ~*
+ I just cleaned the tub. It was groce. Most of the filth was just dust because we don’t use our tub. Our tiny, carpeted bathroom has one of those split shower/tub deals. Never again, man. Never again.
+ moving really inspires one to throw away everything. Rena and Derek just moved back here from Brooklyn and were kind enough to give us a carload of not only boxes, but also four trash bags full of packing material (balled up newspaper). They are tha best. Rena I owe you lunch or something. As soon as my days are free, perhaps.
+ indexed the books we want to sell today. Brian made an excel doc for me so I can easily enter them into ebay. Or should I sell through Amazon? I’ve never tried that. Anyway, it’s around 65 books, to be sold for between $1 and $12 each. Pain in the ass, but better than just putting them on the sidewalk so some junkie can sell them for crack rocks.
+ speaking of books for sale, if anyone wants an autographed first edition of “Lullaby” by Chuck Palahniuk, lemme know.
+ also: I finished reading “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh” and found it much to my liking. Extremely vivid, with authentic dialogue. If only I could write so well. My only complaint was that the characters were all of course very dysfunctional and not terribly likable. It happens.
+ and: I investigated a used book shop in my neighborhood that I usually don’t walk into and was very charmed. They have a shelf dedicated to autodidactism.
+ after that I walked to the softball field and sat on the steps in the sunshine looking at the construction equipment. There is now a trench from one end of the field to the other, flanked on both sides by mounds of dirt. I thought about how when I was a kid, some of my favorite places to play were actually construction sites near my house.
+ dinner tonight will be free range chicken nuggets and rice. I will also be preparing a big salad to take to work with me tomorrow, my final Monday at my job.
hey i didn’t want you to think i forgot about sending that book to you but i got to thinking that you had to pack and move and all that so once you are moved, i’ll send it to you at that point 🙂
can you send me the list of books you’re getting rid of? i might be able to rid you of some of them.
when i moved cross country i dide a fire sale of books on livejournal. it was really fun and efficient! i think i went like 2 for $5, 3 for $8 or something.
Hmm. Did you do it on your own LJ or in a community?
Because ebay fees do kinda suck.
just posted it on my journal. some of my journal friends told friends and then i got some crazy orders–one of them from a guy in britain who ordered a bunch of books and i got to do a MAILBAG or whatever for it! woo!
+ speaking of books for sale, if anyone wants an autographed first edition of “Lullaby” by Chuck Palahniuk, lemme know.
ME!!! I will send you a lb of coffee or something in trade.
I finished Dear Catastrophe Waitress in a couple of days and liked it. There were some laugh-out-loud bits, and I liked the device of briefly telling the rest of the whole life story of the incidental people and items. I’m giving it to Jesse to read now.
Book-selling wise, I use half.com, it’s part of ebay. It calculates/charges shipping for you, and the only info you have to enter is the isbn. I mostly do textbooks/school books/high value books on there. For the leftovers that won’t sell on there, I just haul them to half price books. You don’t get much, but $20 or whatever is better than nothing, and they will donate or recycle the ones they won’t re-sell, so you don’t have to haul anything home. We also have a “reading material for patients” library here at the hospital, so you might be able to donate them to something similar at UCSF or the County.
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I sell books on amazon all the time and its pretty easy. Bit of a pain typing in all the numbers, and I will only post if it meets a certain threshold, but you can get rid of a lot of books that way…
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PS- I cant believe you are leaving that company! CONGRATS!!!!!