no news, no pictures, no new knits, no Long Little Doggie stories. also, no energy. it's not even 8:30, and i could be asleep in about five minutes without even trying. y'all: i am boring. (unless you care about retrospective conversion of serials, opac administration, or the proper care and feeding of 856 tags. in which case, i am wild and ( Read more... )

let the people say amen: If men were smart, they wouldn’t fight against feminism. They would embrace it for what it really is: Humanism. (And stop fretting over whether the term “feminism” is exclusory; its principles aren’t.) They would incorporate the principles of all civil rights movements and collaborate with their proponents on the genesis of ( Read more... )

i have today off, and boy howdy, did i ever need a long weekend. i love my new job, but the past three weeks have been beyond intense. i look forward to three straight days in which the Library Things don't have to be the sole focus for 8.5 hours. they can just sort of hang out in the back of my mind while i do other things that i haven't had ( Read more... )

i think my head may explode today. so if you happen to find yourself standing next to me during the next day or so, consider yourself warned.

my days this week have been passing too fast and not fast enough, simultaneously. it's freaky, and it makes me want to close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, and say "la la la la la i can't hear you!!" to the world.

i would say TGIF tomorrow, but i suspect the weekend will be just as hectic.

good riddance, february.

i think i have a knitting-specific attention deficit disorder -- i can't seem to focus on any one project long enough to actually finish anything. in my defense, i *have* been doing a lot of spinning lately. that definitely cuts into the knitting time...but still, my UFO pile is getting a bit out of hand. ( here's what i've got going on the needles at the moment: )

i drove aramis to the doctor yesterday. diagnosis: sinusitis, with secondary bronchitis. nasty and painful, but treatable. he's still pretty out of it today (he was still running a fever when i left for work), but hopefully once the antibiotics have had been in his system for a full 24 hours we'll see some marked progress ( Read more... )

aramis is sick. i mean, really, really sick. he's had a fever on and off for three days, and about 11pm last night had developed a bone-rattling cough that does nothing except make me think he's going to give himself whiplash. all of this started as a cold...and now he's got an infection of some sort. i'm really worried that he's developed ( Read more... )

on the way home from work tonight, i heard a story on NPR about my home state. apparently, the state legislature (which is unicameral, oo la la!) is considering a bill to change the offical state song from the choral anthem "beautiful nebraska" to an upbeat alt-country number titled "i love nebraska ( Read more... )