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because I don't have your phone number to text you:
Thank you, r_becca! I missed the first minutes but I've set the DVR for the rerun at 1:30 a.m. You rock. -
But can you play "The Magic Flute" on Expert?
Seven years after packing away my xylophone mallets, I can still remember how to play the opening of "Porgy and Bess" (and I can play it alternating OR doubled, thank you very much). Once a music major, always a music major, I think ( Read more... ) -
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I've reached THAT DAY today ( Read more... ) -
Twelve things I learned at ALA that were not in the program guide
1. John Green is a lot taller than I remember him being. But he's my age and 30 is awfully late for a growth spurt, so maybe I was just wearing higher heels when I first met him in 2005 ( Read more... ) -
The Love Post
Here is a post dedicated to things I love, because any other post would basically read, "No time, no fanfic, apartment is a mess, ALA in 3 days, panicpanicpanic."
1. I've found the best hair salon ever. Too bad it's 250 miles from where I live. But it's a reason to visit dettiot. Um, not that I needed one, really, but hey.
2. As lauriegilbert and lizzb are well ( Read more... ) -
A conversation between two YA librarians (also GIP)
cedarlibrarian: Oooh, the Twilight essay collection came in today's mail.
dettiot: [snort] Why are you oooing over that?
cedarlibrarian: Because I'm hoping the essays will be witty and fun* and take the book to task for being crappy.
dettiot: Ummm . . . and what color is the sky in your world?
cedarlibrarian: SPARKLY ( Read more... ) -
Dean Winchester would never shop at Wal-Mart!
It's official. The world is coming to an end. Armageddon has nothing to do with the flaming tree that fell on one of my libraries today, nor the library who was without air conditioning today when the heat index was 109F, nor the air conditioner in my bedroom breaking at the beginning of a week-long heat wave. Oh no ( Read more... ) -
Can't we be romantic on paper?
This July, Mr. Cedar and I will celebrate our fifth anniversary. I haven't a clue as to what I'm getting him, and he's given up trying to guess what I want. So he asked me over the weekend what I wanted for our anniversary. 9 times out of 10, my answer to "What do you want for X Important Holiday?" is "jewelry." I got a beautiful citrine-and- ( Read more... ) -
For all the Dr. Who fans out there
Dr. Who is for watching, not knitting.
For once, not being good at anything crafty keeps me out of trouble. -
Sometimes Amazon > libraries
Here is one thing that makes me a bad librarian: I think Amazon's search engine is superior to the ones most libraries employ to help patrons find books. Yes, library OPACs generally have greater search capacity, can do more types of searches, blah blah blah, but when it comes to a basic keyword search, Amazon's search is MAGIC ( Read more... )