Failing on diverse points
Sep. 16th, 2025 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartToday I took another bag of books to the book saver wagon - only to find it closed. The lady from the greengrocer's next to it said they packed up and left an hour previously. Probably because the promised rain, as they are always there when I walk by on my way to choir practice. Well, I didn't haul all those books home again - they weighed a ton! I put them into a plastic bag and shoved the bag under the wagon. If they find it tomorrow morning, more power to them. If somebody steals them and sells them for the weight of the paper, they're welcome to it.
I hope the book savers will find them, though. Those were the books of a Hungarian author I used to admire very much because of his incredible world-building talent. Until I realized what a disgusting misogynist he really was. But the quality of his writing is still superb. I kept two of the books that were free of his usual misogynist tendencies but got rid of the rest - with a heartache. Such unique talent, spoiled that way! A real shame.
As a consolation prize, I bought us a Babka at the nearby bakery, then went to school to collect the small jars my friend Evie set out for me on her desk at the teachers' room. I left two young adult books for her planned classroom library (she's an English teacher) and took some of the free apples laid out at the entrance. Not for jam, I've had enough of that, but for eating. I can grate them for Mum, so she'd have some other fresh fruit than just raspberries and bananas.
I then went to the Telekom customer service because my phone (the simple one with the buttons, not the smartass one) was acting up, refusing to show who's calling. I hoped they could do something about it. They couldn't. Ah, well, our landline doesn't show the caller, either. I won't waste my time hunting for special services for a phone that cost what? Five Euros? The weird part is, this whole thing started two days ago, and it still shows the caller when it's called from the landline, just not when called from another mobile. *shakes head*
And I waited for their two-minute failure for more than half an hour!!!
By then I was properly frustrated, so I went to the Lindt shop (which happens to be in the same small shopping centre) and made good use of the -50% action. Bought some really yummy, small chocolate quadrants, with caramel and orange-flavoured fillings, respectively. Mum approved very much.
After all this, I decided to skip choir practice and came home to catch the last third of the Great Australian Bake-Off. Priorities must be respected. *g*
I hope the book savers will find them, though. Those were the books of a Hungarian author I used to admire very much because of his incredible world-building talent. Until I realized what a disgusting misogynist he really was. But the quality of his writing is still superb. I kept two of the books that were free of his usual misogynist tendencies but got rid of the rest - with a heartache. Such unique talent, spoiled that way! A real shame.
As a consolation prize, I bought us a Babka at the nearby bakery, then went to school to collect the small jars my friend Evie set out for me on her desk at the teachers' room. I left two young adult books for her planned classroom library (she's an English teacher) and took some of the free apples laid out at the entrance. Not for jam, I've had enough of that, but for eating. I can grate them for Mum, so she'd have some other fresh fruit than just raspberries and bananas.
I then went to the Telekom customer service because my phone (the simple one with the buttons, not the smartass one) was acting up, refusing to show who's calling. I hoped they could do something about it. They couldn't. Ah, well, our landline doesn't show the caller, either. I won't waste my time hunting for special services for a phone that cost what? Five Euros? The weird part is, this whole thing started two days ago, and it still shows the caller when it's called from the landline, just not when called from another mobile. *shakes head*
And I waited for their two-minute failure for more than half an hour!!!
By then I was properly frustrated, so I went to the Lindt shop (which happens to be in the same small shopping centre) and made good use of the -50% action. Bought some really yummy, small chocolate quadrants, with caramel and orange-flavoured fillings, respectively. Mum approved very much.
After all this, I decided to skip choir practice and came home to catch the last third of the Great Australian Bake-Off. Priorities must be respected. *g*
