I remember St. Albans! And Bennington! Bennington had a really good Mexican restaurant, as I recall...
As much as I complain, there are definitely many commendable things about Vermont. It's really extraordinarily beautiful, and it gave me certain idyllic childhood moments, like sledding at Middlebury College, and shopping barefoot at Willey's General Store, and Church Street at Christmastime...yeah. I definitely miss it, and I definitely want to go back. I'm glad you're happy there; I myself might have a little of a "Wherever you go, there you are" problem...
I loved selling books, but I hated supervising people, and our store's staff averaged around 80 people, at holiday time it could get up to 120. Yuck. I'm too much of an introvert for that.
That must have been really tough. I, too, loved the bookselling aspect but hated all the corporate stuff, and I didn't even have any real responsibility. I think what we need is a small vanity bookshop with a few charming but eccentric employees and a small but loyal group of customers...and now I've fantasized myself into a Dylan Moran sitcom. *g* But the point remains!
Hey, was the B&N you worked at the one in Burlington? Because if your 11 years line up at all with mine, there's a small chance I once bought a whole bunch of Sandman comics from you. ;-)
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Date: 2005-12-01 10:45 pm (UTC)As much as I complain, there are definitely many commendable things about Vermont. It's really extraordinarily beautiful, and it gave me certain idyllic childhood moments, like sledding at Middlebury College, and shopping barefoot at Willey's General Store, and Church Street at Christmastime...yeah. I definitely miss it, and I definitely want to go back. I'm glad you're happy there; I myself might have a little of a "Wherever you go, there you are" problem...
I loved selling books, but I hated supervising people, and our store's staff averaged around 80 people, at holiday time it could get up to 120. Yuck. I'm too much of an introvert for that.
That must have been really tough. I, too, loved the bookselling aspect but hated all the corporate stuff, and I didn't even have any real responsibility. I think what we need is a small vanity bookshop with a few charming but eccentric employees and a small but loyal group of customers...and now I've fantasized myself into a Dylan Moran sitcom. *g* But the point remains!
Hey, was the B&N you worked at the one in Burlington? Because if your 11 years line up at all with mine, there's a small chance I once bought a whole bunch of Sandman comics from you. ;-)