4 April 2008
An Annoying Evening
Wednesday evening kinda sucked. After it was too late, I discovered I had been invited to watch Death at a Funeral. I had wanted to see it, but I figured that since my phone hadn’t rung, it wasn’t happening. Well, my phone didn’t ring because I had put it on silent the night before (one of my brothers was texting me incessantly while I was watching How I Met Your Mother with people).
That alone was not enough to spoil the evening. Sometime last weekend, I discovered I had some money left on a Barnes & Noble gift card. For a change, I knew instantly what to buy: a copy of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. I figured after I found out about the movie, I went to my local Barnes and Nobles. They didn’t have it. Just to see what they had, I went to the Borders across the street. Again, they didn’t have it. I was so excited, but my hopes were dashed. It turns out there are around 40 different editions. How the heck do you figure out which one to pick online? I need to look at them in person. I can’t do it because they don’t have any in stores. Stupid book stores. Don’t even get me started about how major book stores could fail to stock the Lincoln Douglas debates.