I had my interview at Leicester University and I'm in! I'm going to do an MA in Professional Archaeological Practice. Woo!

Today was a really weird day at work. I met three interesting people. (Well, when I say "met", I served them. And talked to them.)

First of all there was a woman who asked if the middle section of our bestsellers wall contained bestsellers. Sounds like a stupid question, but it doesn't. It's all the new stuff, 'cos we have this bit that there isn't a plan what to do with. We'd put this book there by someone called Pat O'Keeffe called Thermal Image. It turned out that she was married to the author! I jokingly asked if he'd like to do a book signing, and she said she'd ask him. Could be embarrassing - we probably only have about three copies. Heh.

Secondly there was this man who bought a fantasy book. He asked me if was more like Tolkien or David Eddings and Terry Brooks, and I said Eddings, even though I wasn't completely sure. It looks like it is from the cover, and even though there's that thing about not judging books by their cover, you can! Publishers do it like that on purpose to sell more books! Anyway, that's not what was interesting. He saw that Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was coming out on May 11th, and he said he didn't need to preorder it because he had a copy. Immediately I thought, "Not another person with a pirate copy", but he wasn't! The director gave him one, 'cos he knows him. And then he said he was buying the book to read on set, because he's doing a film at the moment. I really wanted to ask what he was doing, but I chickened out. Cool though. He seemed familiar, but I don't know why. He was probably really famous. :-)

The third person probably isn't as interesting as either of those people, but I'll include him anyway. He was a lorry driver, trying to get a European road atlas that has bridge heights marked on it. None seem to exist, if you were wondering. He imports cars from the European mainland so we can have them thousands of pounds cheaper! For Jamjar. You never really think about these things, do you? I don't, anyway. He has a little four car transporter. Sweet.

posted by Fiery Fred @ 9:25 PM