The Clog Blog of the Dancin' Librarian
Reading: 1001 Pearls of Buddhist Wisdom
Watching: Our 2007 clogging show (making the DVD)
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10/29/2002
Wedding #2 down!(0) comments
We headed off to hot, humid, Florida this weekend for my bro-in-law's wedding. Why the hell my dad moved somewhere that it's 90 degrees and 85% humidity at the end of October I will never understand! (No offense to any Floridians! But most of the ones I know have gotten the hell out of there.) Anyway, the wedding was on the beach, and it was quite beautiful if a bit sweaty. Brian made a very handsome best man (of course). The reception was on a boat cruising the bay - very neat - but I have to admit the highlight of the reception was getting to see manatees swimming in the harbor!
The lowlight (is that a word? If not it should be!) of the weekend was getting the *(#ing flu from the flu shot. Fortunately it held off til the end of the reception, but let me tell ya, it's real fun to fly on a plane when you're sick. Which could lead me into a rant about airport security, but what's the point? Just because they've NEVER prevented a hijacking at the screening point, and never will, and just because these bullshit extra security measures don't make me feel one damn bit safer, and just because all they accomplish is humiliating people and pissing them off and making them not want to fly, why should they discontinue them? We have to make the American public FEEL safe. Even though we don't feel a bit safer. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. There. Nonsensical rant over. Maybe.
Anyhoo, that's about the weekend. All the great things I had planned to get accomplished Sunday when we got home were lost in a feverish fog. Fortunately it was a mild bout with the flu, so I was able to return to work today (albeit still with a sore throat and a slow brain.) And somehow a week's worth of work had piled up in my 2-day absence. ARGH! Why does an undergraduate need 25 interlibrary loans for one paper??? Oops, I'm ranting again.
Checkers won two in a row! Yay! Our new uniforms may be butt-ugly, but our team is looking good!
AMEN!!!(0) comments
Once again, Overdue hits the nail on the head. This one goes on the wall.
10/22/2002
It's still breast cancer month!(0) comments
For every click on the pink ribbon here, Cigna foundation will donate a dollar to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Go click!
On a totally unrelated note, I started clogging again last night after a 6+ year hiatus. My legs aren't appreciating stairs this morning, but I had fun! The dancin', hockey-lovin' librarian is finally dancing again! :) It's a small all-ages group, very informal (currently practicing in the leader's basement), and they perform locally. The kind of group I was looking for. Yay!
10/20/2002
My great-grandma turned 98 Friday.(0) comments
Sorry, I just had to announce that to the world. (The world, of course, being the maybe 3 people who read this blog! :) ) I would have posted about it Friday, except we went to the Neighborhood Theatre to see Eddie From Ohio, which thoroughly rocked. (For perhaps folked, since they're a folk band!)
In other news, we finally finished painting my mother-in-law's *()&! porch!!! We're DONE with her house! Yay!
10/11/2002
Why can't they make pavement flat?(0) comments
It sounds silly, but it's a genuine question. For example, the parking lot at work has always had a huge dip in the center. This summer they completely redid the parking lot, including repaving it. There is currently about 3 inches of muddy rainwater in the still-extant dip. I think it's actually worse. And the road to work. I always hated driving to/from work in the rain, because there were ruts worn in the pavement on the main road from years and years of tires, and water stood in the ruts making the road VERY slick. That was also repaved this summer. Apparently repaved to EXACTLY the same shape as the previous pavement, ruts and all. Whee, hydroplaning is fun! Come on, is it THAT hard to make flat pavement???
10/09/2002
If it ain't fleas, it's flies!(0) comments
What the hell is it with me and bugs? There's a fly in here, it has the whole damn room to fly in, and it's going in circles around my head. Sheesh!
On a totally different note, if you want a game that will (dammit fly get out of my face!) suck up the entire rest of your day, try Bookworm. It's like one-person scrabble, only not. And it's addictive. Sue will hate me for this. :)
10/06/2002
Haiku(0) comments
Small red itchy bites
All over both my ankles
I really hate fleas
Next time I visit
the rescue group's cat room I'll
First bathe in bug spray
Why do fleas like me?
They like me better than cats.
I REALLY hate fleas.
10/05/2002
Breast Cancer Awareness Month(0) comments
Want to help? Sponsor Wil Wheaton (yes, THAT Wil Wheaton) in the AVON 3-day breast cancer walk later this month. Yes, I know I was once a member of alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die, but Wil is actually quite a nice guy. He's raised over $15000 in sponsorships so far, and the more the better! Also visit the Breast Cancer Site daily and click to donate (for free) mammograms to low-income women.
10/03/2002
The hazards of airborne sex(0) comments
Tonight I was painting my mother-in-law's porch (will we ever be done with that damn house?) and the paint lid was next to me, paint side up. Suddenly this pair of mating flies came whizzing by my head. Clearly they were too, um, preoccupied to steer particularly well - because they crashed right into the paint lid. The male (no, I didn't look that closely, I'm going on position here!) got away with only white feet and spots on his head and wing. The poor female became Albino Fly. Needless to say, this interrupted their little tryst. They were both staggering around dazed, leaving tiny paint trails on the porch. And I was sitting there thinking, how it must suck to be flying around carefree, doin' the wild thing in the air, and suddenly find yourself smacking headfirst into a blob of paint. I mean, what a way to kill the mood! And kill your relationship for that matter. The poor female's wings were painted together, the last I saw her she was crawling off somewhere, probably grumbling "You idiot, I told you I couldn't steer with you on top of me!" The male appeared to be desperately trying to clean the paint off his legs. He may at least survive and find another mate, if he can find one who doesn't mind a spotted fly. Hopefully next time he'll stay on the ground!
10/02/2002
CLASSES ARE DONE!(0) comments
Well, almost anyway. The class I teach doesn't meet again til mid-November. Yay! No more Sunday night what-the-hell-am-I-gonna-teach-tomorrow cramfests! Tomorrow I figure up midterm grades, and I can't wait til the kids who haven't turned in assignments see what it does to their grades. Heehee! (Hey, I warned 'em more than once! It's their own fault!)
I actually managed to get everything done yesterday that I blogged about. Wonders never cease! And of course they didn't come for the bindery shipment today. What'd I tell ya?
Oh, and I promise not to be like this when we have a baby. (Sorry, library humor!)
10/01/2002
OK, OK, so I'm not updating this as often as I'd like. Tell them to give us more staff so I'm not running ragged at work and I'll post more! Right now I've got a few minutes before running off to a Friends of the Library meeting which is followed immediately by a library instruction session I have to teach, after which I have to pack the bindery shipment up (because if I don't they'll come for it first thing Wednesday morning, although if I go ahead and pack it up they won't come til Friday - you know how that goes!) After that's done I want to try to figure out why the computer on the reference desk keeps turning itself on (I don't think students are doing it, since today the monitor was not on and no one had tried to log in). Also on the list today are trying to get the telecommunications folks to re-hook-up the telephone line in the reference room and deciding what to do about a proposed donation of mostly Reader's Digest Condensed Books. (I don't want 'em!) And of course answer whatever reference questions students have throughout the afternoon.(0) comments
So there's a slice of a fairly typical afternoon here. Enjoy!