Still not
. . . feeling better? . . . a post about dizziness? Yes.
Remember when I used to write “reviews” of Starbucks food? Yeah, I quit. No particular reason. This post will be like those, except much shorter and even less funny. I’ve been drifting in and out of sleep for the last hour.
This afternoon I felt well enough that I dared to drive myself to the doctor to get my stitches out. My mom could have done it, but she was working at the elections all day, and I’m glad I didn’t have to bother her.
On the way home I stopped at Starbucks and picked up a Pumpkin Spice Latte* and a Maple Bar. My parents are on a pretty strict diet, you see, and I was craving junk. I don’t have much time left before midnight, so I’ll say that the PSL was creamier than I expected, though usually it’s a decent replacement for its too-sweet frappuccino cousin, and the Maple Bar was, well, junky—it’s essentially a doughnut. But delicious. I saved the last few bites for breakfast.
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P.S. John just put one of his textbooks back on the bookshelf UPSIDE DOWN. Further inspection revealed that this had been done to several other books as well, and what’s more, he saw NOTHING WRONG with this topsy-turvy situation. I am aghast.
* Decaf. I don’t know what caffeine/alcohol/vigorous exercise/medication does to a dizzy person, and I don’t want to find out.
Tags: NaBloPoMo
November 7th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Natalie…it preserves the spine of the book if you occasionally rotate the book to the upside down position. Paul says “What, are the words going to fall out?”
November 8th, 2007 at 12:21 am
But . . . but . . . it looks so awful! A shelf of books, randomly oriented? The aesthetic losses outweigh the health benefits, IMHO.
November 11th, 2007 at 9:54 am
I know the feeling! Books printed in France have the words going in the opposite direction, so when I line them all up properly with my English books, they make all sorts of a mess. I’ve taken to shelving the French books upside down just to preserve order.
(I guess if it’s good for the spines, you could flip ALL of the books upside down?!)
November 11th, 2007 at 10:50 am
I can’t decide which direction makes more sense. The American way is right-side-up when you lay the books flat, but the European way makes more sense when they’re on a shelf: tilting your head to the left turns left-to-right (on the shelf) into top-to-bottom, which is more natural to me than scanning right-to-left.