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Don’t mind me, just sitting at the airport, stressed because my flight is delayed and the last time @SouthwestAir did this to me, it was during their holiday meltdown.

Fingers crossed they’ve fixed the issues that caused that whole mess.

[Around Albany @aroundalbany]

Not even a 4.8 earthquake could take down Central Warehouse

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@MatthewCappucci Felt it pretty strongly here in Albany, NY.

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I know that this has lied to me all year (or more my superintendent doesn’t believe in snow days this year) but I’m really really hopeful. 👀

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My sixth graders’ reactions to seeing me read on my Nook today and finding out I could have a whole library in the palm of my hands:

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Wait, am I back? Am I rebranding?

WHO AM I?

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Nobody died. Nobody got cursed at. Nobody quit. The store beat sales and it’s clean.

✨Win✨

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It’s my first Black Friday as a senior bookseller and I don’t know what it says about me that I’m watching Starkid’s Black Friday to hype myself up to close tonight.

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It’s my first Black Friday as a senior bookseller and I don’t know what it says about me that I’m watching Starkid’s Black Friday to hype myself up to close tonight.

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Hard to believe this is my last week of being a bookseller.

Mostly because next week I start as a senior bookseller. 😎😎😎

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Let it be known that this, the 6th school year since I got my degree, is the first year I will actually be utilizing my degree.

Not just a fancy piece of paper now.

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Not me reading four whole books and part of another yesterday. 👀

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How exactly did I make more money bookselling in one week than teaching for two weeks? 🤔

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Me: I’ve been playing too many video games since school let out, I should read more.

The Universe, Unplugging the Power: Say less fam.

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I love teaching baby booksellers because they always come up to me and go “a customer just bought all the books I recommended and I want to happy cry,” and that makes me want to happy cry too. 🥰

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@elleturpitt The arena in my hometown started out at the Knickerbocker. It got changed to Pepsi, then Times Union, and now it’s MVP.

My mom calls it Knickerbocker. I call it Pepsi. Most people go “oh, whatever tf it is, where the (defunct sports team) played!”

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@JadedVenusaur I made a Barbenheimer display and they told me no.

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I finally chaos-ed too hard with my bookselling. 😅

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(To specify, I’m not in trouble. Nobody’s mad. I just was finally too chaotic.)

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I can’t tell you how much fun it was to get to pull off this event on Sunday! @beckyalbertalli @JL_Dugan and Dahlia Adler are amazing authors and were absolutely amazing to hang out with!

(Literally dying over how they signed my books. 😍)

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@TillyLovesBooks There’s like so many where I am in upstate NY. We went through a phase about ten years ago where they kept adding them to different intersections.