Atmosphere is all you really need

Woot, Friday is upon us and unlike impending disasters like tornadoes and attacks of clumpy noodles Friday is a very nice relaxing day. It is say the type of day to leave my house in the hands of psychotic animals, (who I am sure are plotting to overthrow their human taskmaster at any given point) and peruse a bookstore. Now yes Borders has its glory and immortality but occasionally the prices are a bit too high for me. So off to the used bookstore. There is of course one minor hiccup...Worcester only has 1. Not my favorite place but the lack of selection (and miniscule amount of books they accept for trade in) is so totally made up for by McKitty Fiddles.

Errrr, I actually think his name is Duncan (....possibly....) but in any case he is the top bookstore cat I have ever met. Usually when I'm there he accosts me in the general fiction section where I am usually searching for Murakami books and getting no where. After a fun ten minutes of how many times can I get such a fat cat to jump up for a quick little head butt I headed over to SciFi/Fantasy and was really really happy to get an anthology I have wanted forever. Flights: Extreme Fantasy with tons of great authors like Gaimon, Wolfe, Oates, ect. I also found two other books I wanted by a good author (books 1 and 2 of the Sevenwaters Trilogy) but used my better judgement to save that money and buy lunch.

Ok back to McKitty. Normally he will not follow me over to Fantasy. Today we had kitty bait. Every couple of steps I would crouch down (pretending to look at books so I did not look like a complete nutcase) and tempt him over with some affection and a chin rub. This was quite fun. Sadly someone else walked in and in true cat fashion I was dumped with nothing more than a parting shot of his onion as he rounded the corner going after the man asking about collector edition westerns.

Oh well.

Cat wrangler I am not. At least I have my book.

/realizes that another bookcase will soon be needed

/hides new book on unused kitchen chair

/smile