So one of my friends was celebrating a birthday today and got a group together to go to finale. I had a bit of a long day at work, but it does feel theraputic at the end of the day to eat something like this molten chocolate dessert, which is chocolate cake with a warm melted chocolate center and coffee ice cream. When you cut into the cake, the chocolate center seeps out and starts mixing with the ice cream so you end up with this very rich mocha flavor and an interesting mix of textures.

I got to Harvard Square a bit early so I had a few minutes to wander around, and like many librarians would do in this situation I browsed some bookstores. I did end up purchasing a couple things but I was very proud of the self control I exercised by not buying the following items:

1) The newest Thursday Next novel, The Well of Lost Plots, shouldn’t it be coming out in paperback soon if there is yet another novel coming out in August?
2) Ella Enchanted, I want to read this but I could get it at the public library.
3) Craig Thompson’s Blankets, I can probably get it through ILL, and I shouldn’t buy any more graphic novels until I finish some of the other ones I have sitting around the house 🙂
4) I bought NO knitting books.
5) Also none of the Hellboy graphic novels I don’t have.
6) I didn’t buy any of the Steven Brust collected Vlad Taltos books, although I made a mental note to inventory what I have at home, because I think I already own most of the Vlad books and am only missing 1 or 2 of them.
7) I did not buy an Ursula Le Guin remaindered hardback.
8) I also did not buy a Rick Moody remaindered hardback.

That’s pretty good right? I ended up with The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke and Volume 1 of Andi Watson’s Love Fights. So, if I only buy 20% of what I seriously considered buying, I think I’m doing very well with the whole self-denial/freeing myself of my attachment to material possessions thing, right?