On Saturday "Martin" (I feel I have to put her name in quotes, while I don't for anyone else. What is that about? None of these are actual people's names. Maybe I feel that's more obvious with the ones that are, like, "J. Po") and I went looking for some big ole sale that was supposed to be going on in this one neighborhood downtown. For the most part, we found nothing. But then! we saw a sign at the bottom of a flight of stairs that said "75% off." And we climbed the stairs. And it was good. It was a boutique, people. I never shop in boutiques. But all their summer clothes were on sale. I got me two swishy summer skirts, and Martin picked up a grey jacket with pink pinstripes. Super cute.
I'm particularly proud that I managed to wear both swishy summer skirts this weekend - one to a science writer's birthday shindig Saturday night, and one to another science writer's going-away brunch Sunday.
See? All science writers, all the time. Well, but Martin's not a science writer. And of course J.Vorama was pretty much science-writer-free time.
(I think the problem is, Martin is clearly a boy's name, while I am in fact hanging out with a girl in these stories. And I actually know a guy named Martin. And, um, I'm not going skirt-shopping with him.)
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Yeah, the name "Martin" makes me think of the nerdy kid on The Simpsons.
I second grrrbear's comment.
And I congratulate you on some excellent bargain hunting!
And an unrealated comment, which you may have mentioned in a previous post (I feel like you did...). Have you read 'Eats, Shoots, and Leaves' yet? You'd love it.
I haven't read it, no - I did read a hi-larious New Yorker review of it, though. The writer spent the first page or so of the review pointing out all the grammatical errors in the book, which would be mean-spirited if it were any other book - but if you're going to be a total pedant about grammar, you should probably run your book past a good copy editor.
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