As usual, I will only be bringing my classiest material to the NY VBF next week. #abaacertifiedsleaze

It is true that today is the last day to upload material for the virtual ABAA fair on Thursday. It is also true that I feel an overwhelming urge to watch cat videos all day. #thestruggleisreal

Scouted a circa 1890s business card for a detective agency managed by a husband and wife detective duo, and I honestly think I’ve accomplished some next-level bookseller-ness I can only dream of living up to from here on out. #careergoals

TFW you have so, so much work to do, and every noise outside sounds like the mail truck bringing your amazing new acquisition from Garrett Scott.

It arrived, it arrived, it finally arrived! Sigh…I’m in love. #newacq #womeninsports

Stayed up most of the night working on an e-list I almost certainly won’t get out today, but I bought a small but glorious transgender collection at 3:52am so I feel like my poor life choices have my back.

I SOLVED THE BORAX PUZZLE! Yep, another productive day here at KMB… #advertising #games #borax

Spent 45 minutes carefully wording an IG post about a cool patent medicine item, which exactly three other people have found interesting. Once again my social media juggernaut is a success!

Me: I will finish my e-list at 5pm the night before and send it out first thing the next morning. Also me: stays up all night working on said list and doesn’t send it out until 5:30pm EST. Sigh. Anyway, here’s a link: mailchi.mp/8fe746f08f56/e…

After 15 years in the trade, I feel like I have a PRET-TY good sense about what to bring to a book fair. #rarebooksla

Panic shopping for the Boston book fair means I just spent a lot of money I don’t have on an archive of photos of circus elephants wearing advertising banners, and I honestly can’t decide if I’m elated or kicking myself. Possibly both. #booksellerproblems

And for my next trick: turning this unassuming pile of books and ephemera into a kick-ass seed collection of animal rights material! It’ll debut at the Boston fair — if I can squeeze it into my suitcase, that is.

Tfw you bring material home to catalogue but have maxed out every procrastination tool at your disposal instead, and just when you think you’ll FINALLY have to start working, you realize it’s a quarter to 9pm so…maybe you should just go to bed early? #booksellerlife

There are worse problems than not having a box big enough to ship an archive of 19th century theatre broadsides to the Boston fair. But it is, nevertheless, a problem. *frantically Googles large appliance stores nearby* #booksellerlife

For anyone who has been putting off applying for the CABS-Minnesota Diverse Voices Fellowship, today is NOT the day to procrastinate! Applications are due by 11:59 EST.

Leave it to Picard to come up with the classiest, most diplomatic, way to say "fuck around and find out."

Today is a slow-motion dumpster fire, so here are some pretty things I’m bringing to the Boston fair to distract you.

Procrastinated ALL weekend by doing xmas shopping instead of working because I’m stressed about all the work I have to do before the holidays. Capitalism at its best. 🙃