Wandering

Unfortunately, I have no photos to show today of my downtown adventure, for as soon as I actually got downtown I discovered that the card I had in my camera was not only not formatted for it, but would not allow me to format it. Me and technology. I swear.

But yes, I had a downtown adventure today. I wandered around for a while, killing an hour till my roommate, Laura, got done with work so we could adventure together, and found lots of things that made me wish I had money to spend. What else is new.

I went to Malaprops, an old Asheville standby favorite of mine, because I was getting desperate for the second book in the Hunger Games series.

Ok sidenote. Have you ever read a book so good that when you finished it, you swore you would never enjoy another book again? A book so absorbing you think in some way its real life, and either worry about it and its characters when youre not reading it (like in your sleep) or plan your stopping points around places in the book where the characters are sleeping or eating so as not to miss anything when you put it down? Well ladies and gents, if not, pick up the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Seriously, I read the first one (375 pages) in one night, it was that good. I found the next book in the series, Catching Fire, and proceeded to read roughly 100 pages of it in just under an hour. It's THAT good people, really. The trouble is, everyone around me thinks so too, so none of the local libraries have either of the next two books in the series. I'll just have to wait till next week when I go home to get my wisdom teeth out (get ready for THAT, dear readers).

So yes. Malaprops. Wonderful. Bookstore and cafe all rolled into one, and as I found out today, they dont kick you out when you shamelessly and openly sit there reading their books without paying for them. What's not to like?

After perusing around some little shops and eating ice cream from Kilwin's for lunch (highly recommend both the ice cream and the practice. I had cinnamon crumb cake. Seriously, where else can you find that as an ice cream flavor??), Laura and I headed back to the house to clean and prepare it for house-hunters that never showed. Ah well.

I then experienced my first clothing exchange. We went to one of Laura's coworkers apartment, dumped several bags of clothing on the floor, and sorted, folded, tried on, cast off, traded, and fought over (ok not really) it all. I came up for air with a couple of new dresses and a few shirts, and a new appreciation for this practice. Grab a few friends who's styles you like, tell them to bring a bunch of clothes, grab your ever-growing thrift store pile and  voila! One man's trash is another man's treasure and all that.

Today was a good, full day. I needed a day out of the house.
And I get to go home next week, huzzah! Oral surgery or no oral surgery, I'm excited.