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Jun. 5th, 2007 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I just now got some advertising email from eBay with the heading "explore eBay Canada your way" and then it listed the things they thought I might want: cell phones, hockey cards, lingerie, sleeveless dresses, flip flops.
It seems extraordinary to me the way I so little want any of the things on their list. I sometimes fear I am more materialistic than I want to be, when I think of all the things I want1; but really, there are an extraordinary number of things in this world that I don't want and can't imagine wanting. Which is good, on the whole.2
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1 Which can pretty much be summed up as: books, more books, comics, some DVDs, and travel.
2 This being said, I constantly surprise myself with the new things I find to love. Who'd have thought, a year ago, that I'd want - and get - red Converse shoes?
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Date: 2007-06-05 05:58 pm (UTC)*likes flip-flops for the season herself*
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Date: 2007-06-05 06:02 pm (UTC)No problem with red Converse at all!
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Date: 2007-06-05 08:00 pm (UTC)Yes, shoes are very good things.
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Date: 2007-06-05 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-05 07:55 pm (UTC)Mind you, there are things on eBay that I covet. I know they are out there, luring me. "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood" mugs with pictures of the Doctor and Captain Jack on them, for example. If someone put out a mug with the Doctor and Captain Jack on the same one - I'd love them forever. As it is, I have a mug with a picture of the Doctor and Rose. What else can one drink tea from, while writing fanfic?
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Date: 2007-06-06 07:59 pm (UTC)Actually, I'm now having a chuckle imagining you wearing a sleeveless dress and trendy flip-flops while you use your cellphone to check your bids on eBay hockey card auctions.
The red Converse shoes, on the other hand, are totally logical.
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Date: 2007-06-06 08:28 pm (UTC)I'm now having a chuckle imagining you wearing a sleeveless dress and trendy flip-flops while you use your cellphone to check your bids on eBay hockey card auctions.
Must be a Skrull impostor! Not me! (*g*)
The red Converse shoes, on the other hand, are totally logical.
And spiffy and I love them with a passion. But I have a reason to!