Moving around in DC

You know, I am very sympathetic to the antiwar march in DC today. If I didn't have class and work, I'd probably participate. But these marchers/protestors are doing the same thing that all people unfamiliar with public transportation (and public places?) seem to do: stop dead in the middle of briskly moving foot-traffic to get their bearings without considering the hundreds of people right behind them; seem unable to negotiate a turnstile (it's not complicated, but some people don't get it); and -- this is what drives me INSANE -- don't understand the "walk on the left, stand on the right" rules for escalators. There are signs, people! And footprints painted on the freaking elevators. Have you been locked in the basement for your entire lives that you can't manage these rules?

The Borders Haul

My reward for working and studying was a trip to Borders in search of the Dean/Devon/Pillow anthology, Taming Him, and Kathleen O'Reilly's Blaze book.  Borders didn't have the O'Reilly book on the shelves -- February category books were out.  According to their computer, it was still in the store, but no one could find it.  It wasn't shelved under O'Reilly, wasn't with the other categories, wasn't in the back waiting to be stripped or shipped back to Harlequin or whatever they do to unsold category books.  Taming Him was in stock though.

My bag o' books ended up holding:

• Taming Him
  
• Living to Tell the Tale (already have this is Spanish, but I wanted an English copy, too.  Plus, it was only $5.99 for a hardback copy)
  
• Sanctuary, the 4th 1-800-Where-R-U book, which was the only one I couldn't find an e-version or used copy of
  
• Posner's The Little Book of Plagiarism
  
• Voltaire's Candide and The Maid of Orleans
  
• Poetry of W.B. Yeats (the sale table, I can't resist a book for $1.99)
  
• Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire and Utopian Dreams  -- neither authorized nor sponsored by The Hershey Company
  
  I had a half dozen other books in my hands, but put them back.