there once was

10:40am waiting for my turn at the dentist, the radio singing into the background says something along the lines of 'i have been falling all my life'

11:15am removed braces, feeling uneasy with the generous amount of space between the underside of my lips & teeth - but such things get better

1+pm sitting by a fountain eating pastry from a french bakery with denise, i also have milk tea that she has never tried & she has juice i have never tasted
i think we are both lusting over the christmas decorations for sale next to us whilst simultaneously unintentionally 'attracting kids'

2:56pm finally purchased a copy of a memoir i have wanted to read since the beginning of the year, feel unabashed about feeling glad there was only one copy

3:50+pm on our way to another bookstore, made abortive attempts in the past one-hour searching for penguin publisher classics at [unnamed bookstore]. denise asked an assistant at [unnamed bookstore] if they had classics & the reply she received was something along the lines of 'what do you mean by classics', & then we were showed to some shelves of popular teen fictions.... i am pretty baffled, i must say. we ended up getting pretzels to quell our disappointment, although i am still in complete bewilderment re: how a bookstore can not carry classics

5:30+pm: i have tender is the night & northanger abbey in my bag while denise has tender is the night, the pictures of dorain grey & a 2013 winnie the pooh in hers. today was reasonably satisfying