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I'm Currently Avoiding Going to the DMV
Apr. 21st, 2017 08:22 am Like you do.
But apparently, something didn't happen that should have when we donated our last car because we got a tabs renewal notice from the DMV for the old Taurus. I called the Make-a-Wish people and the woman I talked to was very... helpful/not helpful. Possibly she could have been MORE helpful if I wasn't half-asleep and had known which questions to ask while talking to her, but all I ended up getting out of our conversation was that maybe there was some part of the sale process that I didn't do. LUCKILY, Shawn photocopied our original title, so I can bring that and the acknowledgment of sale to the DMV in Roseville (I go there because it tends to be less... soul-dead). Hopefully, someone there will hand me the right form or be more clear about where I need to go to get the proper form (and/or tell me for sure if anything really needs to be done, because what's especially confusing is that Make-a-Wish has already SOLD my car to someone else. You'd think if I didn't do some part of the transfer of sale, that couldn't happen. But who knows? Hopefully the DMV knows.)
So, yeah, I'm avoiding going there at the moment.
I'm avoiding heading out because it's hard and I don't want to do it, but also I'm hoping to combine this trip to Roseville with a stop in at the Roseville Library. A manga volume that I requested has come in and I have a bunch of books that need to go back.
I'm giving up on ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY. I feel... badly about this. I know and like the author, Charlie Jane Anders, and worse, there was nothing inherently wrong with this book. In fact, I really feel like the old "It's not you, it's me" is applicable here, because what would happen is that I would start reading, enjoy myself for however long, put the book down and then forget about it completely for days at a time. I've renewed the book once already. I could do it again, but I'm going to take this as a sign that I'm just not in the right mood for it. (Or possibly book reading, in general. As I said in my previous post, sometimes my brain only wants to consume graphic novels/manga.) So, it's not like I'm QUITTING the book. More that I'm setting it aside, for now.
You can see how guilty I feel, right?
I have a bunch of other books that I've been moving around the house rather than reading, too. I'm hoping one of them will finally hit me at the right time/in the right headspace and I'll jump into it with both feet. I kind of hate these periods when they hit me. I mean, it's not like I'm not reading at ALL, but some part of me still thinks of all the comic books/graphic novels/manga I read as "not proper books." Which is silly because I'm usually the first to jump up and defend graphic novels as REAL LITERATURE, because they are. And I KNOW this.
Whelp, first day of glorious sunshine and I'm going to go spend it at the DMV. Wish me luck!
But apparently, something didn't happen that should have when we donated our last car because we got a tabs renewal notice from the DMV for the old Taurus. I called the Make-a-Wish people and the woman I talked to was very... helpful/not helpful. Possibly she could have been MORE helpful if I wasn't half-asleep and had known which questions to ask while talking to her, but all I ended up getting out of our conversation was that maybe there was some part of the sale process that I didn't do. LUCKILY, Shawn photocopied our original title, so I can bring that and the acknowledgment of sale to the DMV in Roseville (I go there because it tends to be less... soul-dead). Hopefully, someone there will hand me the right form or be more clear about where I need to go to get the proper form (and/or tell me for sure if anything really needs to be done, because what's especially confusing is that Make-a-Wish has already SOLD my car to someone else. You'd think if I didn't do some part of the transfer of sale, that couldn't happen. But who knows? Hopefully the DMV knows.)
So, yeah, I'm avoiding going there at the moment.
I'm avoiding heading out because it's hard and I don't want to do it, but also I'm hoping to combine this trip to Roseville with a stop in at the Roseville Library. A manga volume that I requested has come in and I have a bunch of books that need to go back.
I'm giving up on ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY. I feel... badly about this. I know and like the author, Charlie Jane Anders, and worse, there was nothing inherently wrong with this book. In fact, I really feel like the old "It's not you, it's me" is applicable here, because what would happen is that I would start reading, enjoy myself for however long, put the book down and then forget about it completely for days at a time. I've renewed the book once already. I could do it again, but I'm going to take this as a sign that I'm just not in the right mood for it. (Or possibly book reading, in general. As I said in my previous post, sometimes my brain only wants to consume graphic novels/manga.) So, it's not like I'm QUITTING the book. More that I'm setting it aside, for now.
You can see how guilty I feel, right?
I have a bunch of other books that I've been moving around the house rather than reading, too. I'm hoping one of them will finally hit me at the right time/in the right headspace and I'll jump into it with both feet. I kind of hate these periods when they hit me. I mean, it's not like I'm not reading at ALL, but some part of me still thinks of all the comic books/graphic novels/manga I read as "not proper books." Which is silly because I'm usually the first to jump up and defend graphic novels as REAL LITERATURE, because they are. And I KNOW this.
Whelp, first day of glorious sunshine and I'm going to go spend it at the DMV. Wish me luck!
