i got a call for an interview at the south pasadena library ( Read more... )

so
even though i have not heard back from the library yet,
i have decided to become familiar with the dewey decimal system.

any pointers/suggestions/words of encouragement from you nerdy types?

1. i applied to be a library aide at the south pasadena library ( Read more... )

i'm so excited to be going to santa barbara tomorrow for the first of our major wedding planning trips. we'll be having our first cake tasting! 2 to be exact. so i went to the website of one of the cake vendors, and started looking at all the cake-type and filling and frosting options, expecting to be dazzledented by it all...but instead it gave me ( Read more... )

tonight when i visited my grandma diana at the nursing home, i noticed a big difference between the state she was in a week ago and now. she was a lot worse. despite the late hours of the night, she seemed taken down quite a few notches, exhausted from all of her health complications. she'd just gone back to the hospital a couple nights ago for ( Read more... )

a fellow Norton Simon Musuem employee made this awe-inspiring portrait really, truly come to life.


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patty hall, the author of the new raggedy anne and andy books, gave me a great idea. she mentioned that there was a time in her life when her step-father was very ill in the hospital, very near to death...and she would bring him the unpublished versions of her books to test out on him- and she said you could just SEE his face relax as she read to ( Read more... )

my manager gave me a key to the bookstore!

(& not just anyone gets one...)

;)

i spent the better part of my day at the children's bookstore hiding out towards the very end of a "G-rated" haunted house, popping out to give the little ones a brief scare, dressed as a she-devil ( Read more... )

ronald and i got "his and hers" Halloween costumes!
yes, we're totally retarded like that.

and we love it!