A Case of the Mondays

A lot of people don't like Mondays, because they mean that the weekend is over and the week is about to begin, which means one thing: work. I guess that means the reason that people don't like Mondays is that people don't like their jobs.

I guess that explains why I don't mind Mondays very much. I like my job, a whole lot. I get to be around books all day that have to do with my faith, which is very inspiring, and the customers we get in the store are usually as enthusiastic about Christianity as I am, which makes for some very nice conversations!

My boss is also nice. Mr. Perkis is an older man who was a friend of my uncle back in college together. I mentioned before that my uncle got me my job at the bookstore, that was because Mr. Perkis needed someone to manage the store a few days a week and I was just looking to move out on my own and he knew I wanted to be a writer, so, here I am!

After a few months of only helping out a few days a week I started to work five days a week, fulltime: it's a fun job and I like it. One of the great things about knowing the owner so closely is that I can talk to him about things and give him suggestions without feeling too nervous. Today, for instance, a customer came into the store and asked if we had any novels by a man named Ted Dekker. I hadn't heard of Ted Dekker before but he said that he was a very popular Christian writer who had written a lot of books and his son liked them. I told him that I would let him know if we got any Dekker books in.

Tonight I logged on to the Internet and read some reviews of Ted Dekker books. People say a lot of good things! He seems to be edgy, writing on the edge of the Christian genre and linking it (or bridging it, anybody?) to other popular genres too. I said to myself, "I think this guy could bring some younger customers into the store!" Then I called Mr. Perkis and asked him what he thought. He said that I should read one and tell him if they're worth buying. I think it's kind of cool that he's giving me that much say; if I like his books, we'll stock them, and if I don't, we won't stock them.

I'll be picking up a Dekker book soon and giving it a read, then, I suppose...this one he wrote, "House," is going to come out as a movie soon, so I think I'll read that one (comparing books and their movies is a hobby of mine).

Oh! And I was looking on Wikipedia.com today at the article about Mike Huckabee, my favorite candidate for the upcoming election (I wrote a post about him a little while ago). It says that he announced his candidacy exactly one year ago today. I just thought that was pretty neat.

Have a good week, and goodnight!

-Dirk