(1) This is summer. This is heat. This is "I saw a hound chasing a rabbit, and they were both standing still" heat, the kind of heat that presses down on you so that you don't really want to do anything and are exhausted by the time you get to where you're going. It is also, as far as I can tell, heat that makes people do boneheaded things when they're driving; I've seen four bad accidents and two less-bad ones in the past week, not counting the two SUVs trying to shoulder into the same lane I saw just a couple minutes ago (there was a definite collision there, but not so that anyone's hurt) and the guy who ran a red and cut me off while I was turning (meaning I had to sit in the intersection looking dumb for a few minutes). I hate this kind of heat. You start off with so many ambitions for the day, and you end up just sitting around in the air conditioning.
(2) Chapel Hill Comics is the best comic-book/geek-paraphernalia store in the triangle. There's the two that exist in order for their staff to sit around and play roleplaying games all day, and the one that has barely gotten new stock in since I was in high school (I am so not kidding. Lots of their magazines are from 2000 or 2001); and then there's Chapel Hill Comics, who were so nice and helpful after I finally gave up and drove all the way over there. And they have at least four times as many manga as any other place in the triangle.
(3) If only we had light rail, we would solve both the problem of stupid drivers and the problem that the decent comic book store is too far away from me. But that idea has died and been revived so many times that it could be the star of its own zombie movie.
(2) Chapel Hill Comics is the best comic-book/geek-paraphernalia store in the triangle. There's the two that exist in order for their staff to sit around and play roleplaying games all day, and the one that has barely gotten new stock in since I was in high school (I am so not kidding. Lots of their magazines are from 2000 or 2001); and then there's Chapel Hill Comics, who were so nice and helpful after I finally gave up and drove all the way over there. And they have at least four times as many manga as any other place in the triangle.
(3) If only we had light rail, we would solve both the problem of stupid drivers and the problem that the decent comic book store is too far away from me. But that idea has died and been revived so many times that it could be the star of its own zombie movie.