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(We're going to omit groceries. And random bottles of drink.)
- 13 newspapers (6x Independent, 6x Guardian, 1 Jewish Chronicle--not gone out yet today)
- The Economist (which calls itself a newspaper, but I call a magazine)
- 1x DVLA complete Learn to Drive pack, including theory test guide
- 1 black leather Knomo iPod case
- The Sims 2 "Nightlife"
- 1 cinema ticket (£9.50!)
- 1 song on iTunes US

I'm quite proud actually, aside from the DVLA guide (which doesn't really count) I bought NO BOOKS!!

I am a consumer whore. And I know it. (And I laughed at that woman who spent a year buying nothing non-essential. Not that I'm going to spend my way to the poorhouse, but you know, sometimes Things can make you happy. See Books.)

Danger of new flat: We can actually fit in more bookcases (at the moment, we have more books than places to put them. Stop looking at me.) At least having a baby will keep me out of Foyles. (Amazon.com/co.uk only works for books I know I want. It lacks the browsing experience.)

Yes, I'm bored, yes, I should just get up and go to the supermarket....

Misplaced comma costs firm C$2.13M

(stolen from linguaphiles

This week's JC reported that 3 of the sex-blogs-turned-book writers (Belle du Jour, Suzanne Portnoy, Abby Lee) are Jewish. Now, I don't know how many of these books have been published, but I dare say that's quite a high percentage given that Jews are under 1% of the UK population.

I don't want to be too much of a prude (shoot me if I start praising Wendy Shalit) but I sort of wish this weren't true...

I saw the new 250mL Coke bottles in Waitrose today. They're being billed as "Coke Mini". Oddly, they come in 8-packs.

(I'm more interested in being able to grab one from a newsagent.)