Subj : BOOKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS--THE 12 STEPS
To   : All
From : Rachel L. Akers
Date : Mon Feb 19 2001 09:11 pm

<FX: wipe brow> I fail in a couple of key sections <g>

  Rai

                BOOKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS--THE 12 STEPS

         1. Admitted we were powerless over books, and that our shelf 
                space had become unmanageable.

         2. Came to believe that a bookstore larger than some small 
                countries could restore us to sanity.

         3. Made a decision to turn our will and about half our annual
                income over to Barnes and Noble as we understood it.

         4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of Amazon.com.

         5. Admitted to the Goddess, to ourselves and to the bank that
                we were now criminally overdrawn.

         6. Were entirely ready to have bookstores remove all our 
                cash.

         7. Humbly asked them if they took Visa.

         8. Made a list of all books we had spilled coffee on, and 
                became willing to replace them all.

         9. Made direct replacement of such books, except when to do 
                so would keep us from being able to afford that cool 
                new book on early Croatian magick.

        10. Continued to take inventory of Amazon.com, and when it 
                cost too much, promptly joined QPB (four books, four 
                bucks, no kidding).

        11. Sought through shopping and drooling to fulfill our lust 
                for Book Heaven as we understood it, seeking only 
                knowledge of its whereabouts and the cash to go nuts 
                in it.

        12. Having been awake all night as a result of reading all 
                those books, we tried to shovel a spot off the bed to
                sleep on, and to practice reading in our sleep till 
                we never actually had to stop.


                 (c) Rain '98...non-conference-approved. :)

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