I’ll have to look into that.

Have you thought about donating them? Even if they’re worn, many of the big donating bins you see around are affiliated with organizations that will sell old paper to recycling companies.

I’m probably gonna try again, but with out the cover

That’s a really cool idea, though. I’m always looking for ways to recycle old books, because I wear them out but my recycling service doesn’t accept paper.

It seemed to be going okay, but for three things:

1. The colors went all funny from the water

2. It looked dirtier than I thought it would

3. I moved and tossed the project.

Yeah, if Heather had phrased it as, “You know what, I prefer to sit because I’m more comfortable/baths are more fabulous/etc.” it would have been perfectly fine, but instead, the narrative voice went like so.

Heather: “I would shower, but I am just toooooo lazy! What do I look like, a skinny girl? Like a skinny girl who eats seasonal produce instead of microwave pizza and plain bagels?”
Me: “…” (Keep in mind: this is New York City. There is no reason to snark on skinny folks for eating healthy, period, but if that’s the best you could come up with for unhealthy food on a budget + laziness = why I am fat, at a university in a major metropolitan area, even avoiding “ethnic” food, you lack imagination.)
Heather: “I will be bringing this up every time I take a bath. Which is frequent. And then I’ll complain about how my clothes don’t fit, even my skinny friend’s maternity clothes, waah!”
Me: *tosses book aside*

So Maria finished it and I guess the book was just more. of. the same.

…and I wanna hear about the garden experiment! Did you try to compost the book in situ, or what?

ETA to add the weird food thing too

True. I wish I had some kind of shower stool so I could use my pumice stone properly. It’s a hassle leaning against the wall on one foot (the ledge of the tub is too small and I’d slip and fall off).

I apologize; in re-reading, it definitely sounds like I was saying “OMG, she’s THAT lazy? Gross!” in my comment. But what I was actually objecting to was the whole idea that a preference for sitting in the shower indicated laziness. Sitting can make leg shaving easier (in my brief experience with showers that had ledges for sitting). Or you might prefer a sit-down shower after a long day of working on your feet, which is many people spend most of their days. There are loads of reasons to sit in the shower that have nothing to do with laziness. Also I’ve never heard a lazy person complain about standing in the shower, so the whole concept as described from the book was just blowing my mind with the nonsense of it.