Elements of Style

[teaberryblue]

I just redid the layout on my LiveJournal for the first time since 2009. 2009? Yes, I think 2009. I redid my icon, too, and added a couple self-portrait icons.

I’m going to do my main blog tonight or this weekend.

I just figured that my artistic style has deviated a lot from what I was doing a couple of years ago, and it was time to make the style of my various web presences echo that. Also, my old icon made me feel like I was shouting a lot! Which I use a lot of exclamation points, so!

!!!!!

Anyway, it was lovely at lunch, so after eating and tooling around with the LJ CSS, I went for a walk in Central Park, and over to one of the big rocks that seems to generally be occupied by French tourists (I know, that is very specific for a rock) to read for a half hour.

On my way there, passing the statue at the Columbus Circle entrance to the park, I spotted a small, blue rectangle.

Curiosity got the better of me.

It was a reprint of one of the pre-White editions!

I closed the book, and left it, determining that maybe its owner would come back for it. I decided that if it was still there when I finished reading my chapter in my book, I would commandeer it for my own.

When I walked back, it was not there, but there were two people sitting where the book had been.

Mirrored from Antagonia.net.

Comments

[everywordiwrite.livejournal.com]

We found a book too! Except it was wanting to be found.

It was a week or two ago and it was on a bench in a park. It was inside a plastic Ziploc bag - clearly meant to be left there and possibly have to survive rain. It had a BookCrossing.com sticker in the front. Basically you're meant to find the book, read it, possibly write a little review on the website, and go leave it somewhere else for other people to find. It's pretty cool. Unfortunately our book hasn't met many people yet - we're its second readers - but we're planning to leave it in a different city and/or country from where we found it. (It was a P.D. James - The Skull Beneath The Skin.)

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking when I saw it that it would be cool to leave a note in it for whoever found it, but I didn't have any paper. Now I kind of want to get a blank book and leave it somewhere.

Oddly, I think I would be way more likely to pick up an unwrapped book than one in a plastic bag. The plastic bag might gross me out.

[everywordiwrite.livejournal.com]

Bleh, life attacked (I may have moved in the last two weeks and had internet-free stretches and...yeah) and I forgot to reply. I think the plastic bag had the BookCrossing.com sticker ON it, which would help. My boyfriend found it, not me.

But wouldn't it be cool to come back to your book and find a note in it?