New Comic Day

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This week I got:
Cable/Deadpool #7 (Not bad)
Daredevil #64 (Bit anticlimactic but still okay)
Madrox #1 (well, judge for yourself, it's on at http://www.milehighcomics.com/firstlook/marvel/ I
believe.. I liked it thought)
New X-Men #5 (fairly good)
Ultimate Nightmare #2 (Still moving slowly, but not bad)
Wanted #5 (ehh, left a bit lacking)
X-Men #161 (... not good, even for Austen)

Full reviews of course are up at http://www.unreachablestar.net

Also out this week, for those who are interested, is the Marvel Age digest of Runaways, Volume 2 (entitled 'Teenage Wasteland'), collecting issues #7-12)

I also had a big gyro for lunch (the new place makes 'em bigger than the last), and had some charity subway pizza too.

Then there was work, which was okay but as the truck was delayed at the previous store, I was left waiting...
(long and boring story about what I did while waiting behind cut tag. It involves climbing.)

So, here's the thing. On Wednesdays when I tend to have to wait for the truck, I bring a book (currently Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress), and read. Except, instead of sitting in the staff room and reading, I've taken to climbing up to the top shelf in the back, which is maybe
12 feet high (it's easy to get up without a ladder, with a little acrobatics).

It's quiet up there, and that shelf is just for boxes so management doesn't mind (since I've done it before).

Anyway, most of the time people will walk right below me
and do whatever they have to do, get things off the
shelves, mop up the floor, or just walk around, and not
even know I'm there. Which is kinda nifty, in its way.

Well, anyway, this time a couple people noticed me. Wondering, aloud, what the hell I was doing. I answered (because it seemed obvious) 'reading', and they just shook their heads like it was some really odd thing to be doing.
A couple of people afterwards when they walked be would look up and smile and say hi, still seeming a bit confused (or amused) at the fact that I was up there. Or they walked by, _then_ looked up and remarked that they forgot I was up there.

One girl said I reminded her of the kid in the Neverending Story, sitting up in an attic reading books.

I dunno, is reading really all that odd?
Is reading while on a shelf 12 feet in the air?

Comments

[80sfiend.livejournal.com]

Reading isn't odd at all, people are just uncreative when it comes to where they do things. I personally think it's awesome that you chose to read up on a shelf, why if I had access to a shelf that I could use to read on while at work, I would. :) I'm sure it was much more interesting than reading in your staff room or some equally unoriginal place.