Today was a day of adorable and fascinating old men, dropping off boxes and collecting papers in the city for the Bancroft ( Read more... )

The experience of watching Miyazaki's latest film Ponyo is very similar to that of watching Up: gorgeous visuals, engaging story, interesting characters...and intensely frustrating. (Which perhaps befits a film loosely based on that frustrating fairy tale, "The Little Mermaid ( Read more... )

Partial account of Austin activities so far over at my library blog.

Austin is hot. Yes, I was forewarned of this fact, and thought that my Tracy upbringing would come to my rescue, but apparently six years of Berkeley summers have turned me soft ( Read more... )

I got the job at St. Mary's! Yay!

daharyn asked for curtain-making advice, so I'm posting my fairly simple curtain technique here in case anyone else is interested.

( how to make a curtain )

I've decided to go to Austin in August, mainly for the Society of American Archivists convention but also to check out the UT Austin library program and the Harry Ransom Center, and wander around Austin itself. Any suggestions for things to do, people to meet up with, and/or places from which to borrow a bicycle would be most welcome.

I've now officially aged out of Jane Austen heroine territory. (One could make an argument that the events of Persuasion last long enough that Anne could conceivably have a birthday during that time, but I'd rather just look forward to the next stage, kickass spinsterhood ( Read more... )

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Some things that are making me happy of late ( Read more... )