mississippi, mississippi!
Oct. 23rd, 2006 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ateolfsaturday i hung out with David and Monika and we met up with Evan and Robin and Aaron and his girlfriend and we went down to hernando, ms for this "corn-maize" (really, maize maze) and haunted trail...the haunted trail was, of course, like a haunted house but on a trail...the corn maze was quite the sorry sight...the corn was dead...grass-like stalks ranging from waist to chin height...mostly somewhere in the middle...it was supposedly shaped like a pumpkin so there's a single loop going around the whole outside...really it was like walking through a field with some pathways...it was fun, though not for the attraction...
yesterday brought me to mississippi again...Mary Beth and i journied down to oxford to see Rowan Oak...good timing got us there a few minutes before opening...it was pretty swell...and walking around the grounds was pretty swell too...as we were leaving we notied a trail going off through the woods...we wandered down and kept running into (well, within tens of yards anyways) two deer and it was pretty rad...we went over to the square and shopped at none other than Square Books...i made off with a good haul: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (a book i've been trying to find forever, but it always has that damned oprah book club shit on it...and they print it on they don't even use stickers like some of the others...i was excited when harper started coming out with a new cover design but that also had it printed on! but now there's this other fancy version that's a couple dollars more but oprah's nowhere to be found on it! i guess i'm a snob, i felt it worth the small expense...), A Fable and The Unvanquished by William Faulkner (doing my part in the way of "souveniers" here...i mean, i was a tourist, him being the whole reason i was there...especially with A Fable since i saw the room where he scrawled that book's outline in the wall...), and Hidden Camera by Zoran Živković (i'd never heard of this book or this writer before...but i was just glancing around the shelf and was like "hey, they've got a cool name!" and then looked at it and then the book looked pretty frickin' awesome too! i'm super-excited about it...) then we went over to Off Square Books (where they have some used and rare stuff) and got a couple more: Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner (this was actually new, but like overstock or something...it's actually weird 'cuz it's the british printing...but it was cheap like a used book so that was nice...), Stepantchikovo by Fedor Dostoievski (The Village of Stepanchikovo en español...a pretty interesting find i couldn't pass up...), and The Zero Train by Yuri Buida (another book/writer i know nothing about...but this book's thin and was used and cheap and looks interesting (not quite as strongly as the other one i bought new at the other store, but still looks quite...definitely worth the couple dollars risk...) we also got some cane cola and it was awesome...we wandered around the square and the weather was still nice...(the weather was so great...) a little cold but sunny and uh, nice...we ate some excellent chicken tenders at this place that specializes in them and went back home...we ended the evening with some sarsaparilla (which was an accident in a way as i'd actually been searching for a keyboard to buy...which i didn't get...i should've talked about that earlier...but i'll get to that next...) so it was a very thematic, perfect day with a few happy accidents to boot...
now the keyboard...saturday i spilled coke on my computer keyboard and broked it...see this comment for the wacky humorous result/discovery...i tried to find a new one last night after we got back but everywhere'd recently closed...except target but they only had crappy ones (i.e. the one i'd already had and didn't like and kind of wanted a new one anyway...) but they did have sarsaparilla...(yeah, it's root beer...but when it SAYS "sarsaparilla" it's something special! damnit it...and that had come up earlier in the day...even with the curator of Rowan Oak who i'm sure thought us a bit silly...which reminds me i wrote in the guestbook as a comment: "i can't think of anythinkg" a fitting message under the aura of Faulkner's verbal legacy...) anyway, i ended up getting a keyboard after work today which i'm obviously using now...it seemed quite fine at the store (as did my last one) but now that i'm actually really really using it, i kind of don't like it so much...at least it was cheap...
also, Mary Beth gave me a book last night: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino...we had been talking about it and she's had two copies of it so she gave me her extra...isn't that swell? free stuff rulzez...
yesterday brought me to mississippi again...Mary Beth and i journied down to oxford to see Rowan Oak...good timing got us there a few minutes before opening...it was pretty swell...and walking around the grounds was pretty swell too...as we were leaving we notied a trail going off through the woods...we wandered down and kept running into (well, within tens of yards anyways) two deer and it was pretty rad...we went over to the square and shopped at none other than Square Books...i made off with a good haul: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (a book i've been trying to find forever, but it always has that damned oprah book club shit on it...and they print it on they don't even use stickers like some of the others...i was excited when harper started coming out with a new cover design but that also had it printed on! but now there's this other fancy version that's a couple dollars more but oprah's nowhere to be found on it! i guess i'm a snob, i felt it worth the small expense...), A Fable and The Unvanquished by William Faulkner (doing my part in the way of "souveniers" here...i mean, i was a tourist, him being the whole reason i was there...especially with A Fable since i saw the room where he scrawled that book's outline in the wall...), and Hidden Camera by Zoran Živković (i'd never heard of this book or this writer before...but i was just glancing around the shelf and was like "hey, they've got a cool name!" and then looked at it and then the book looked pretty frickin' awesome too! i'm super-excited about it...) then we went over to Off Square Books (where they have some used and rare stuff) and got a couple more: Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner (this was actually new, but like overstock or something...it's actually weird 'cuz it's the british printing...but it was cheap like a used book so that was nice...), Stepantchikovo by Fedor Dostoievski (The Village of Stepanchikovo en español...a pretty interesting find i couldn't pass up...), and The Zero Train by Yuri Buida (another book/writer i know nothing about...but this book's thin and was used and cheap and looks interesting (not quite as strongly as the other one i bought new at the other store, but still looks quite...definitely worth the couple dollars risk...) we also got some cane cola and it was awesome...we wandered around the square and the weather was still nice...(the weather was so great...) a little cold but sunny and uh, nice...we ate some excellent chicken tenders at this place that specializes in them and went back home...we ended the evening with some sarsaparilla (which was an accident in a way as i'd actually been searching for a keyboard to buy...which i didn't get...i should've talked about that earlier...but i'll get to that next...) so it was a very thematic, perfect day with a few happy accidents to boot...
now the keyboard...saturday i spilled coke on my computer keyboard and broked it...see this comment for the wacky humorous result/discovery...i tried to find a new one last night after we got back but everywhere'd recently closed...except target but they only had crappy ones (i.e. the one i'd already had and didn't like and kind of wanted a new one anyway...) but they did have sarsaparilla...(yeah, it's root beer...but when it SAYS "sarsaparilla" it's something special! damnit it...and that had come up earlier in the day...even with the curator of Rowan Oak who i'm sure thought us a bit silly...which reminds me i wrote in the guestbook as a comment: "i can't think of anythin
also, Mary Beth gave me a book last night: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino...we had been talking about it and she's had two copies of it so she gave me her extra...isn't that swell? free stuff rulzez...
