morning inspiration. i'm just throwing this up here because its important to me to remember

On Aug 18, 2009, at 8:53 AM, D wrote:

saw these today in an article. they make me excited and sick at the same time that theyre allready doing it:
HeyCupcake
GreenlightBookstore
(im going to be following this blog now religiously and i love that she quit her publishing job to go work for a bunch of local bookstores. that gives me hope that i could go travel and then come back and do that and start really beefing up on my knowledge of the way to run a store, the inventory, the computer systems...)
suddenly im thinking about a bookbar... you go up and ask for something depending on your mood or interests or previous favorite books and something like the genius people at apple will prescribe a book? that would take some serious knowledge and a bangin computer system...
or a bookbar on one side and a coffee/cookie bar on the other side and then books lining the walls of the entire store with high ceilings, floor to ceiling and then table/couch/overstuffed chair clusters in the middle.
yes.. i like this. ugh, get me out of this job. i need to get out of this job soon


On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:05 AM, J wrote:

That can be inspirational and intimidating all at the same time.
but pushing aside the intimidation I think you should listen to the last line of the cupcake guy


P.S. You only live once. Go for it.


I don't know what your next step is, quitting tomorrow, staying until you complete a year, saving x amount of money no matter what setting a goal is important and something worth racking your brain over to set. I think there are a few very viable options on your table, each one will give you at the very least a life changing experience and will get you out of your job and into a different environment. and if the world comes crashing down around you just come live with me until life makes more sense again.


I think you are too intelligent and too passionate to be doing what you're currently doing for much longer. You realized you can make a living in this economy, great. If you come back to it in a year you will be able to get another job. and living without health insurance isn't the worst thing in the world, over 40 million americans live like that everyday, and lets not even talk about the rest of the world. And if you go to italy it doesn't even matter. I know you will eventually make a move but know that there are people who will support you and provide you with a home and some food if it turns into a disaster. Just make sure you always have enough money for a last minute return ticket. I am serious. Or if you want to move to san fransisco live with me until you know what you want to do/can do it. I have an oven and a full sized fridge. You could just cook all day long if you wanted.


You can be good at anything, but it might be nice to be great at something you love. But you won't find that until you take some calculated risks and have back ups just in case shit hits the fan.


Then when you do create whatever amazing thing it is, we can write the book and sell the movie. I think Scarlett Johannson with a haircut could play you.


On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:28 AM, D wrote:

im going to print this email and carry it around. thank you love. and i agree with everything.
i started at the begining of the bookstore girls blog, june 2008, and ive read june and july, ill read two months a morning. ive allready learned so much.
its so great for me because she goes through the logistics, the loans, the inventory, the investors, the partners, the massive growing pains and set backs and small successes... rather than wandering around repeating that im going to start a bookstore/bar without any idea of what that would entail i want to keep saying that WHILE i educate myself as to what the hell that means, trying to keep the balance between the reality and the complete fantasty.
anyway im incredibly blessed i have people like you who really would take me in and i have my dads apt or my southampton poolhouse that i could crash into and pay minimal rent on if necessary and i have a real estate lawyer for a father and a mother who starter her own small business and has been successful for forty years and has taste and whimsy coming out of every pore so if i really do this i have some serious experts on my hands. i just want to be educated, educated, educated in my own way so that im not leaning on everyone else. i want to be sure it retains the original spirit of the idea, the community space, the space for local artists and local food and local talent and a safe space for people to think. its so pie in the sky but its so what i want.
its totally overwhelming and kind of wonderful. and i dont even know what IT is...
though i think scarletts too boobalicious for me. someone a little more androg.
love