What haven't you given back yet?

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I borrow things. Or people lend me things (even when I don't want them). Or people accidentally leave things at my house. I haven't given any of these back yet. Some I've had for a few days, some for a few years.

CDs

Destroyer, Your Blues (Pat)
Elliott Smith, Figure 8 (Pat)
Prince, The Very Best of Prince (Pat)
Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out (Rachel)
Fleetwood Mac, The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (Kelsey)

Books
Susan Minot, Evening (Lisa)
Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water (Rachel)
Adrien Henri, Total Art (Kelsey)
Rebecca Wood, The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia (Kelsey)
Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Bill)
Denis Johnson, Seeks: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond (Nicolas)

Misc.
Winged Migration DVD (Colin)
Assorted toy musical instruments and a small wind organ (Aaron)
Water bottle (Jody)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I could've gotten rid of the Bangs book the other night, but I totally forgot on the way to Bill's house.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps this post would've been better as a Stickie on my desktop?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I borrowed a paperback primer on moral philosophy from my RE teacher at school and didn't get around to returning it. I still felt bad about this when I was at university, and bought another copy for myself so that I could post the old one back with apologies. But I never got around to it. I still glance at my school newsletter to see if he's retired or moved on yet. I guess it would be kind of bizarre to return it now.

I also have two DVDs of RJG's that I haven't watched yet ('Dune' and 'Ghost Dog') and '24' season 2 from another friend. I've had these for several months. RJG has lots of my CDs so I don't feel bad about that, but I really should return the 24 boxed set.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I still have Otis's boombox from like 3 years ago.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i have a copy of candide which i borrowed from a girl about six years ago. i just realized that i bumped into her last month, took her email address and told her i would write her and then forgot, so i guess i owe her a note too.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't include several books that I've borrowed from my dad, because I'm not sure whether he even wants them back anymore.

Oh fuck, I also have a book that a college professor loaned me four years ago. It's a volume of literary criticism that she's in; I think it's like the complimentary copy she received. Yeah, I feel bad about it, too. I even met her for coffee about a month ago, after not seeing her since graduation, but it didn't even occur to me to return the book. I don't even know if she knows I have it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

And then there's the video on stage combat I borrowed from my high school drama teacher in 1992, when I was in A Midsummer Night's Dream. That may still be in my parents' basement somewhere.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I have that Johnny Rotten autiobiography, never read, lent to me by a punk girl I was trying to get with in my first year of college. I also have Ryan's Marc Ribot CD. Sorry Ryan.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

cds carrying case thingee
a porno

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

otherwise, ungh. a vhs copy of toy story that i never actually want, west wing season 1 on dvd, kool keith - the lost masters, a friend's negatives and a six-string rickenbacker.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

oh oh oh and like twenty thousand dollars from the government student loan program.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and $120

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

What kills me about the Susan Minot and Madeleine L'Engle books on my list is that I've had both for almost a year, I haven't read them, nor do I have any real intention to. Both were given to me in this "you should read this, I think you'd like this" way. I don't know why I accepted. Because now, the longer I have them, the more awkward it's gonna be if I return them unread. It's a terrible burden.

Also: a Lydia Davis book.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

a Nancy and Lee album (vinyl) I've had for a year and a half. Someday I'll give it back.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I have currently in my possession a dozen or so back issues of Good Housekeeping magazine I borrowed from my mother, that I haven't given back to her yet. I don't know if I should give them back to her, though, because I don't know if she'll end up keeping them or throwing them away. She's big on throwing stuff away.

(Thank goodness for having a subscription to the magazine now.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

(Yes, I'm the world's first twentysomething middle-aged career mom.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got a beautiful Korg MS-10 that I'm supposed to be selling for a friend..I'm still trying to convince myself that I'm checking all the connections are working, rather than actually just stealing it.

― winterland, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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