I WON'T be at the Skinny Dip event tonight

Guess who has come down with The Ick? Go on, guess.

If you answered "Both you AND the Stroppy One", you are correct!

So, no event for me tonight, dammit.

Ridiculous book collections

No, I'm not talking about my (only slightly bonkers) tendency to buy 1st edition hardbacks of Anne Rice books at thrift stores. I also collect copies of Dracula. (Go on, look surprised. I'll wait.) I've been trying to find a really battered paperback of it for a while now, for a project I have in mind. Have I been able to find any at the thrift stores lately? Ha, no.

So yesterday, I found a paperback copy with a tie-in cover for the Coppola movie. "Hey!" I say to myself, "I've already got a copy of this, so sacrificing this one for the craft project is a no-brainer! Easy!"

Except that the version I bought yesterday is not the same as the other Coppola movie tie-in I have. The previous one is the Official Movie Novelization. Yesterday's find is the actual novel of Dracula, but with a movie-themed cover and "8 pages of photos from the movie!".

(You see where this is going, don't you?)

I now find myself unwilling to sacrifice yesterday's find for the craft project. ::sigh::

(I also have a paperback with a tie-in cover for the Langella version of Dracula, with photos from that movie. Plus the Edward Gorey illustrated hardback, The Annotated Dracula, a smaller-than-paperback -sized hardback, and some abridged illustrated versions. Look, it's a thing, okay. I am incapable of passing up a copy of Dracula. STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT, IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL.)

(I do the same thing with editions of Something Wicked This Way Comes. Someday I will be rewarded with finding a 1st edition of it at a thrift store. I cling to this dream.)