Posts tagged "true story"
This is what happens when Jenn works on event proposals during her late shifts.
- Jenn: I'm going to go get coffee, do you want some?
- Emily: Yeah!
- Jenn: Coffee or an Americano?
- Emily: Americano.
- Jenn: Milk/sugar?
- Emily: Yes.
- Jenn: What kind of milk?
- Emily: Half'n'half.
- Jenn: What kind of sugar?
- Customer: Coffee is complicated for some people, huh?
- Jenn, sees regular customer making a beeline for the S shelf: "Are you here for more Scalzi?!"
- Customer, grabbing ZOE'S TALE and THE LAST COLONY: "Yep."
- Jenn: "Yessss! I win!"
- Customer: "You do win."
- Jenn: I'm going to dress up as a Jedi.
- Molly: How do you dress up as a Jedi?
- Jenn: You get a brown cloak and a lightsaber.
- Molly: Jedis wear brown cloaks? Didn't Luke wear a black one?
- Jenn: Well, Obi Wan Kenobi wears brown.
- Molly: And Kee-gon or however you say it.
- Jenn: It's pronounced "KwEYE-gon."
- Molly: *stares*
- Jenn: SHUT UP!
- Molly: It's ok. My boyfriend was quoting Jabba the Hutt yesterday.
This is what happens when you finish Infinite Jest: someone buys you an Enfield Tennis Academy t-shirt.
- Jenn: You know what we need?
- Molly: What?
- Jenn: Morrissey.
- Molly: I thought you were going to say Pandora.
- Jenn: Morrissey Pandora!
- Molly: No, no -- Smiths Pandora!
Oh oh oh! We met academiccoachtaylor and fan-girled all over her and it was awesome. True story.
Fan share!
Some ACT pin-ups from the Programs Department of the College Arts Association. Keep those art historians in check, folks.
- Molly: AHAHAHAHAH Memories of My Melancholy Whores was shelved in nonfiction!
- Jenn: HAHAHAHAHA
- Molly: that is the BEST
- Jenn: i want to read that memoir
- Molly: not if it has the same plot as the novel!!!!!!
- Customer, buying Lord of the Rings: It's time!
- Jenn: Is this your first time reading it?
- Customer: Yup.
- Jenn: Oh, it's great! You'll love it. Although fair warning, there's a lot of walking in book two.
- Customer: [blinks]
- Jenn: They're walking, and then they're still walking, and then five chapters later they are STILL WALKING, and you're like "Oh my god why is there so much walking?!" But if you can make it through the walking, it's great.
- Jenn: OH MY GOD MOLLY.
- Molly: What?
- Jenn: Did Sabriel and Touchstone just DIE?!
- Molly: I'm not telling you anything.
- Jenn: I am only 11 pages into Abhorsen! Goddammit.
- Molly: I almost named my cat Mogget, but then it seemed like a bad idea.
