Snoozing, snooping and shopping
12/08/2004 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaAnother lazy Izzie day - once again in bed past one in the morning and pressing the snoooze button once too often . But Izzie's excuse was firstly that she set the alarm for 3 in the morning to hear the repeat of the interview with Peter Singer that she could not hear at the original broadcast time of 4pm due to the minor inconvenience of work and secondly we got to get up early four times in the next five mornings. So why not. And it's fun lying curled up all snug in bed listening to the wind and pelting rain.
So finally crawled out of the sack at midday. The original plan for lounging about at home and doing some serious study got put on hold by Izzie's watch going on the blink just after 11pm yesterday evening.
So Iz had to go to the city after all. First stop was the Priceline discount store where Iz got her DADA supplies which consisted of 10 bars of assorted Lindt chocolate - mainly the 70 and 85% variety. How could Iz resist the special price of $$1.99 when they are normally $$2.99?
Then there was the business concerning a certain book. A nationwide promotion finishes on Sunday. Five books have been chosen and nearly all book shops are participating as it is sponsored by the Government (Doing something useful with Izzie's hard earned tax dollars for a change) If you buy ANY other book you can also get one of these five for the princely sum of five silver sickles.
So of course the most desirable result is to get the cheapest book possible that you really want. Iz would love to have bought "Death Sentence" a most intriguing little book with a black parrot on the cover all about the nasty creeping all pervasiveness of the evil 'managerialspeak' of which Iz quoted a typical sample just a few days ago. But this little number is still in hardback and the price just cannot be justified. So Iz then went lurking in the classics section which is unfortunately full of nasty cheap tiny print versions of even nastier books such as anything by Charles Dickens or Jane Austen.
Iz then did spy some Dante on an adjoining shelf. Two different versions of "Inferno" - one translated by Dorothy L Sayers and another by one John Ciardi. In spite of the little blurb in the Izzie journal - Iz does not actually speak a word of Italian (Well about four or five fairly rude ones plus the ability to make very good guesses at texts using a bit of Latin derived English and a lot of imagination)
So Iz wants to know if any serpentine associate or lurker out there can recommend a particularly good translation for future reference.
Decided to think about it overnight before returning tomorrow but in the end it was irrelevant as they had sold tonnes of the special five promotional books and had none of the one that the Iz wanted.
So next stop was the department store which was far more likely to have lots of the five but a much smaller range of books to choose from. They even had the new Potter paperback for only $$13.95 (instead of the usual $$19.95) which Iz would have bought as a present for some one if she only knew who. Most serious Potter fans were not able to wait this long for their fix ) Instead - was most delighted to discover Stephen King's "The Green Mile" - the full length version on a cheapie stand for only $$4.95 which meant that Iz ended up spending way way less than she expected to get her greedy paws on the spooky and very scary but sadly true "Blacktown" by Shane Weaver. They replayed an interview with him on the radio last Thursday and mentioned the book promotion. It was one of the most memorable interviews that the Iz has ever heard.
Another book shop had a very very tempting book by one Bethany McLean - a 'Fortune' reporter who back in April 2001 asked the rather interesting question as to how exactly Enron made their money.
Enron will come up once again in Izzies adventures tonight in the Cornelius Fudge School of Ethics.
A truly pathetic condescending and patronising pair of wankers these morons have proved themselves to be. Especially entertaining were the 'guess who' quotes about corporate responsibility. Silly buggers don't have course materials online so Izzie will have to google it and then you folks can have fun guessing too.
But that story will have to wait for another day if Iz does not want to miss a lift from the Knight Bus with its new driver Argus Filch.
So finally crawled out of the sack at midday. The original plan for lounging about at home and doing some serious study got put on hold by Izzie's watch going on the blink just after 11pm yesterday evening.
So Iz had to go to the city after all. First stop was the Priceline discount store where Iz got her DADA supplies which consisted of 10 bars of assorted Lindt chocolate - mainly the 70 and 85% variety. How could Iz resist the special price of $$1.99 when they are normally $$2.99?
Then there was the business concerning a certain book. A nationwide promotion finishes on Sunday. Five books have been chosen and nearly all book shops are participating as it is sponsored by the Government (Doing something useful with Izzie's hard earned tax dollars for a change) If you buy ANY other book you can also get one of these five for the princely sum of five silver sickles.
So of course the most desirable result is to get the cheapest book possible that you really want. Iz would love to have bought "Death Sentence" a most intriguing little book with a black parrot on the cover all about the nasty creeping all pervasiveness of the evil 'managerialspeak' of which Iz quoted a typical sample just a few days ago. But this little number is still in hardback and the price just cannot be justified. So Iz then went lurking in the classics section which is unfortunately full of nasty cheap tiny print versions of even nastier books such as anything by Charles Dickens or Jane Austen.
Iz then did spy some Dante on an adjoining shelf. Two different versions of "Inferno" - one translated by Dorothy L Sayers and another by one John Ciardi. In spite of the little blurb in the Izzie journal - Iz does not actually speak a word of Italian (Well about four or five fairly rude ones plus the ability to make very good guesses at texts using a bit of Latin derived English and a lot of imagination)
So Iz wants to know if any serpentine associate or lurker out there can recommend a particularly good translation for future reference.
Decided to think about it overnight before returning tomorrow but in the end it was irrelevant as they had sold tonnes of the special five promotional books and had none of the one that the Iz wanted.
So next stop was the department store which was far more likely to have lots of the five but a much smaller range of books to choose from. They even had the new Potter paperback for only $$13.95 (instead of the usual $$19.95) which Iz would have bought as a present for some one if she only knew who. Most serious Potter fans were not able to wait this long for their fix ) Instead - was most delighted to discover Stephen King's "The Green Mile" - the full length version on a cheapie stand for only $$4.95 which meant that Iz ended up spending way way less than she expected to get her greedy paws on the spooky and very scary but sadly true "Blacktown" by Shane Weaver. They replayed an interview with him on the radio last Thursday and mentioned the book promotion. It was one of the most memorable interviews that the Iz has ever heard.
Another book shop had a very very tempting book by one Bethany McLean - a 'Fortune' reporter who back in April 2001 asked the rather interesting question as to how exactly Enron made their money.
Enron will come up once again in Izzies adventures tonight in the Cornelius Fudge School of Ethics.
A truly pathetic condescending and patronising pair of wankers these morons have proved themselves to be. Especially entertaining were the 'guess who' quotes about corporate responsibility. Silly buggers don't have course materials online so Izzie will have to google it and then you folks can have fun guessing too.
But that story will have to wait for another day if Iz does not want to miss a lift from the Knight Bus with its new driver Argus Filch.
