I am home sick today because my nose won't stop dripping and it's freaking gross ( Read more... )

I just finished Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, and wow, just wow. I can see why it made the short list for the Booker Prize. I'm trying to read all the short listed books (So far, besides Ishiguro I've read the Zadie Smith.. which I was pleasently surprised by because I got 10 pages into White Teeth before putting it down permanently), before ( Read more... )

Jerry and I decided that we want to be an Axl Rose time line for Halloween. I'm going to be Welcome to the Jungle Axl, and Jerry is going to get a stuff dolphin to be Estranged Axl. Anyone want to join? Wear some spandex white shorts to be Paradise City Axl? Crazy Cornrow Axl. Black and white Sweet Child O' Mine Axl? "In Character" racist One ( Read more... )

I was late leaving work today. Why? Because I was discussing a call number dispute with an ex-cataloger. You see, I was talking to the Children's Librarian, and I noticed that the 2005 World Almanacs were shelved in 317, which, I mean... I guess they KIND OF belong there, if you stretch it, but 317 is statistics, like the Statistical Abstracts ( Read more... )

Who is funnier? Andrea "Hilarious" Byrne or Jerry "Gallagher" Madden?

If you haven't seen Jerry in awhile, you might not know he got a haircut several weeks ago. Not just any haircut, a change your life haircut! ( Observe )

This is what Jerry just said to me OUT OF NO WHERE: FOR NO RAISIN.

"Did I ever tell you how my friend Zach shot a bottle rocket out of his weiner?"

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

Also, this weekend was busy like whoa.

I am so reved up for finance from this seminar Karell and I went to on (duh) financial security for any paycheck. I came home and signed up for an ING Direct savings account (3.3% interest rate! No Fees! Is harder for me to get to! Deducts automatically from my paycheck!), and figured out a plan to pay off my credit card by 2006, after which I ( Read more... )

So, I've been emailing certain people back and forth all morning, and I really wanted to do something for the flooding and New Orleans and everything and here's what I came up with because I don't have any rich donor friends to invite to benefits, I'm not in a band and don't know enough people or a venue to have a benefit show in ( Read more... )