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Sep. 7th, 2004 12:08 pmAhhh... I love Powells. Free WiFi, unlimited browsing, chai lattes... In about ten days, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
morganlf will be here--that's the only other thing that I would ask! :)
My internship here at Intel is up at the end of next week. It's been a fun and fairly productive summer. Currently I'm working on the outline for a paper that I will hopefully continue to collaborate on after I leave for school. Today, however, I'm playing hooky. Sort of. Interns get 1.25 vacation days a month, plus a floating holiday. I've already used three vacation days visiting LA, but I needed to use my floating holiday before the end of the summer or it's just lost. So, a four day vacation for me! I decided to spend today in Portland--I checked out the Square Deal booksale in Pioneer Square this morning at 9 am, after drivingbutigotahelmet and myself to the MAX station to pick up our respective trains. The sale was a little disappointing--mostly crap unfortunately. However, now I'm at the real thing, sitting at the Powell's cafe and working on my prospectus outline.
It's my hope to advance to candidacy this quarter, which means getting my prospectus (kind of a mini-dissertation--30-40 pages of problem statement, possible solutions and a research plan) done in the next few months. Watch this space for further developments! I'll post a bit more about my actual topic as the prospectus develops.
This place is so addicting though--I'm really going to miss it when I go back to LA. We just don't have any place that can compare! Sitting at Borders or B&N is a completely different experiences from wandering through the tall stacks here at Powells, smelling the heady mixture of new and old paper, ink, glue and watching the dedicate bibliophiles wandering the stacks next to you. Exploring the shelves is an adventure--you never know when you're going to pull an autographed first edition off the shelf. I've seen some awesome things that I wish I could afford---a first edition of HPL's Lurker at the Threshold caught my eye, but the wallet cringes a bit. Limited editions of Tim Powers' older works urge me to pick them up from the rare SF shelves. Almost as tempting are the Indian cookbooks, or even the bizarre "Irish fusion" cookbook I paged through. Cheddar Colcannon tort anyone? It might even compete withmorganlf's...
Sigh. Anyone know of a bookstore even half this good in LA?
morganlf will be here--that's the only other thing that I would ask! :) My internship here at Intel is up at the end of next week. It's been a fun and fairly productive summer. Currently I'm working on the outline for a paper that I will hopefully continue to collaborate on after I leave for school. Today, however, I'm playing hooky. Sort of. Interns get 1.25 vacation days a month, plus a floating holiday. I've already used three vacation days visiting LA, but I needed to use my floating holiday before the end of the summer or it's just lost. So, a four day vacation for me! I decided to spend today in Portland--I checked out the Square Deal booksale in Pioneer Square this morning at 9 am, after driving
butigotahelmet and myself to the MAX station to pick up our respective trains. The sale was a little disappointing--mostly crap unfortunately. However, now I'm at the real thing, sitting at the Powell's cafe and working on my prospectus outline.It's my hope to advance to candidacy this quarter, which means getting my prospectus (kind of a mini-dissertation--30-40 pages of problem statement, possible solutions and a research plan) done in the next few months. Watch this space for further developments! I'll post a bit more about my actual topic as the prospectus develops.
This place is so addicting though--I'm really going to miss it when I go back to LA. We just don't have any place that can compare! Sitting at Borders or B&N is a completely different experiences from wandering through the tall stacks here at Powells, smelling the heady mixture of new and old paper, ink, glue and watching the dedicate bibliophiles wandering the stacks next to you. Exploring the shelves is an adventure--you never know when you're going to pull an autographed first edition off the shelf. I've seen some awesome things that I wish I could afford---a first edition of HPL's Lurker at the Threshold caught my eye, but the wallet cringes a bit. Limited editions of Tim Powers' older works urge me to pick them up from the rare SF shelves. Almost as tempting are the Indian cookbooks, or even the bizarre "Irish fusion" cookbook I paged through. Cheddar Colcannon tort anyone? It might even compete with
morganlf's...Sigh. Anyone know of a bookstore even half this good in LA?
