eighty-one weeks ago? wow. well, i'm sort of back. welcome to friends-only. :)

just finished reading "the iron giant," by ted hughes, a few minutes ago. i read 20 pages while waiting for a movie on dec18, six pages while waiting for dinner on dec22, and the other 50+ pages today, waiting for my other self to find a cd.

the writer is the same ted hughes who was with sylvia plath.

at 10:45 am today, leslie (my boss) called to inform me our branch is "under water." i don't know by how much (if any) she's overstating the situation, but i'm willing to allow the possibility of visible currents at the circulation desk. she informed me there are numerous shortages at other branches anyway, so our regional manager (tina something) ( Read more... )

farewell, lumiere. farewell, nicholas defranco. farewell, jerry orbach (1935-2004). myrip.

i didn't send cards to anybody this year. i hate doing it. and i don't have enough people's addresses. this isn't the picture we sent out either, but i don't care. taken by our neighbor, at our neighbor's. the two people with me are not my parents (at least, that's what they say when i embarrass them in public, which, sadly, isn't often enough).


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my body was raging with pent-up energy on the drive to work tuesday. it's amazing what talking with somebody important does to your state of being ( Read more... )

cut-and-pasted from an aim conversation with jim z.: i meant to write in my post that "closer" was like "fahrenheit 9/11." both raise a lot of interesting questions (thank you, mr. cranky), but don't really offer any helpful commentary or offer solutions. easy to point fingers, but to step in and fix things is something else.

since i happened upon mr. cranky's review of "closer" again, i feel i should let my readers know that i read it before i saw the film, forgot pretty much everything he wrote, read it again, and find myself agreeing with much of it. ignore the rating, his are crazy-arbitrary and have little to do with the views he expresses in the piece (reminds me ( Read more... )

just got back from the movies with jim z. we saw "the life aquatic with steve zissou" (paid full price, after much confusion resulting from my thought it would be a matinee; stupid "holiday period" bullcrap) and "closer." i wish it had been the other way around, but at least this time i paid for the one liked better (sunday was the reverse). i can ( Read more... )

a few weeks back, during finals, when i didn't have to work at the sundial, it was raining, like now. not a lot, but enough to make me a wee bit happy. i was running though our building to get to my crappy car, which i have to park outside because of a stupid policy forbidding use of the guest parking unless you pay an outrageous fee (i agree with ( Read more... )