So I've been thinking about taking the ferry from Bellingham to Alaska because I've never been to Alaska and it seems like a cool thing to say I've done. Like seeing the Get Up Kids in concert (it may actually be as boring as seeing the Get Up Kids in concert). Only I wanted to go in September and then totally forgot about it ( Read more... )

Like a year ago there was a rumor going around that one of the library kids was dead. Turned out not to be true. We found out like 3 days later which is a weird time frame to determine if someone was actually not alive or not ( Read more... )

There was a time in my job where we were the best (or second best) library at attracting teens. Then Mukilteo got in the act and started doing 11 programs a month and attracted three hundreds of kids and I stopped looking as awesome. We're now third and in striking distance of second. I told the Roommate that if I can get all my kids out of ( Read more... )

No closer to going to Barcelona, seeing the Setup, being on the Amazing Race, or much of anything else. I went to Canada yesterday though. And tomorrow I get to go to Everett library for book discussions. And I get to talk about the teen project on Thursday. So yay for field trips ( Read more... )

I read the reviews of Kandyland and am sort of sorry I missed it (especially since the alternative was sitting around with librarians getting yelled at). There aren't a LOT of reviews but the ones that are are favorable and it seems like the music wasn't as assy as I thought it would be. I'm always jealous when someone writes about the Djs ( Read more... )

So ready to be done with work this week and of course I have a retirement thing to go to. I wouldn't have even bothered but the two pages asked if I was going and told me to save them seats. I just want to go home and do nothing more strenuous than virtually blowing up tanks or reading recaps of Idol while watching. Unfortunately I decided to be ( Read more... )

The Roommate got all kinds of sick this weekend so I'm running the library by myself. Really we thought she had malaria for a while ( Read more... )

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The other day I was on Amazon and saw there was a new Jack Reacher book coming out... in May. So I immediately went to the library website to put it on hold and found out I was still 97th in line. For a book a LIBRARIAN just found out about. That comes out in MAY ( Read more... )