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I may just have to pick this one up.

Random image spammage, blather

At lunch today I went by Borders because the online inventory checker thingy said both Saiyuki Reload 1 and Fruits Basket 11 were in stock. Found Furuba, but SR wasn't anywhere. After approximately a metric buttload of employees who are normally happy and smiley and asking you if you need help brusquely walked by me while deliberately avoiding my gaze, I went over to Customer Service. Where the woman there who was - at least to start with - happy and smiley looked up SR and said that it had a street date of August 9th and they couldn't put it out before then, although failed to adequately explain why it was marked as being available in the online inventory.

And then I sort of gestured the Furuba I was holding at her and said "Strange. I thought this had the same street date as Saiyuki Reload." She said that I was probably mistaken and looked it up to discover that Furuba 11 did indeed have a street date of August 9th. She'd lost the happy smiley facade by this point and muttered that she was going to have to pull all of them, and stared hungrily at my copy and grudgingly admitted that since I'd picked it up she of course could't take it away, and I got distinct vibes that she was sort of hoping that I'd surrender it voluntarily. Tough luck, sister! You didn't respond to my vibes that I was sort of hoping you'd go get a copy of SR from the back, so you don't get to take Furuba back. XD

So if you had intended to go buy Furuba 11 from the Borders at Hulen and I-30 in Fort Worth this weekend: it's my fault. However the Barnes and Noble on University just south of I-30 has absolutely no problem with breaking street date on Saiyuki Reload, so I ahve a copy after all, but strangely they do not have any Furuba 11 out. (And both copies of volume 10 are shrink-wrapped. Why, I have no idea. Any thoughts?)

Downloaded some pics from my phone - kittyspam and Saiyuki toys.

( Look here for overly grainy and out-of-focus pictures! )