Julia and I went chair shopping over the weekend. The chair I had been using since last 2003 finally killed my back and so she and I traded chairs since I’ve been experiencing a lot of back pain while using my old one. Julia was using my even older black chair for sitting, and ever since we switched, she’s been bitching about my back-killing chair and wanted me to go out and buy a new one ASAP. I couldn’t blame her. So, last weekend, we went to the Office Max near the Pruneyard and waited for a really long time for them to go get the chair I wanted, only to have them come back and tell us that they don’t have it in stock anymore. Suck.
We drove to the one by our house (which I skipped because their chair selection sucked) and they had it in stock. Shock. I picked it up, along with more ink for our printer, and that was it. It was one of those EZ “green foam” chairs, and it was fifty bucks off, which made Julia very happy in the long one. I’ve included a picture of it right here, except mine’s black, not brown. I’ve had it since Saturday and I like 10 times better than my old chair. Except the chair I really wanted was the Aeron chair by Herman Miller. Man, if I had 700 bucks to drop, I would buy one up so quick and never have to buy another chair ever again. I feel in love with the Aeron chair when I was working at GNAC in 2000 and all I can say is that I could fall asleep in that thing, no problem (and I have, but don’t tell anyone). Julia wouldn’t let me buy one, though. She’s a party pooper.
In other news, I’ve been writing straight through my on-call week at work. I managed to get another 30k done last week, bringing me a lot closer to my 75k goal. I”m a mere 20k away from finishing my novel and then I’m in revisions! I guess it’s time to start querying agents.
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Congrats on the somewhat successful chair shopping… Bet if you sell that novel you could reward yourself with the chair? After all, published authors need comfy chairs to write.
Oooh, the Aeron. (eyes go dreamy) I stay at Hilton Garden Inns a lot and they have the Aeron as their desk chair. Having a small SUV I entertain the notion of ripping one off but dammit, they always have my address …