Well, with worldwide destruction as a certain alternative, do I really have a choice?

[sovay]

Awesome: Today's mail contained my long-delayed delivery of Pacific Rim: Man, Machines & Monsters (2013), the accompanying art book to the film. I ordered it in July. I had to keep reordering it as Barnes & Noble kept informing me the book was not actually in print, despite the release date clearly on the order. I think it sold out its initial print run. Possibly its second. It is now in the same cardboard box as Mark Valentine's The Collected Connoisseur (2010) and Anne Ursu's Breadcrumbs (2011), my birthday presents from ashlyme and rushthatspeaks respectively, along with my birthday card from 4nt1g0n3.

Complicating factor: That box needs to be filled with other books and stacked downstairs with all the boxes from derspatchel's room because the movers are coming at nine in the morning. Then I need to pack all the kitchen equipment we've been using for the last month and three-quarters. Then I need to make sure all of my clothes are out of my dresser because while I moved them in drawers, I am not sure how professional movers feel about that sort of thing. And I did not do all of this earlier because I spent the entire evening buying the things we will need immediately in the new apartment tomorrow and doing laundry at my parents' house where the washing machine is neither in a basement nor disintegrating through the kitchen floor. (I don't have anything against the basement in the new place, it was just a luxury. I have a lot of things against the washing machine at Hall Ave.)

I will consider this move a success if I sleep tonight.

Comments

[sovay]

I got a review copy the day before yesterday. I think you're right about it not having been in print.

I had seriously begun to wonder if it was going to play Samuel Beckett all the way into 2014.

I look forward to your review!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Not sure if I have time to write one any time soon! Since it's a review copy I requested from the publisher way back before I got so behind on things... before its publication date.