School has begun. No time for something long and thoughtful that I haven't written yet(ha ha, you thought you'd escaped) So, in the spirit of the review journal this apparently is, here is my librarything review of A.S. Byatt's Possession

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Katherina Snider, nee Klassan, died on August 13th, 2006, in her ninety-third year. She was my grandmother, and one of the happiest, bravest people I have ever known or heard about. Her faith, her passion for loving people, and her drive to help and uplift others was evident every day of her long life, even during the sickness and confusion of the ( Read more... )

At last. Okay, warning, the lj cuts are there for a reason. This thing is long, self-indulgent, and morbidly serious. Hardly anything at all about the actual event, but I'm hoping it gives my family some idea how much what they did meant to me. It took me all morning to edit, and I'm never going to post it if I don't do it now.

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Will post on all that loveliness soon, I have the beginning of the entry typed up, but I'm having to use all my computer internet access time at home to clean up a few schooling snafoos. Silly Prairie, trying to make life easier for all of us with the new online registration--made mandatory. I need my academic advisor to know what the now obsolete ( Read more... )

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Tagged by Cate (regency_cate)

List six weird habits or quirks about yourself and then tag two people.Only six? Huh. Okay, here's a sampling ( Read more... )

It has been quite a weekend for odd and potentially pricey losses ( Read more... )

The day I'm make my "ready by Surrey" resolve, I'm at work, minding my own... work. Feeling shaky, uncertain. My coworker mentions that if my alphasmart ever comes, it will be handy. I laugh-ha ha!- because it's already been two and a half months since I ordered it, and this is the second time it's shipped from the states, and God knows if the ( Read more... )

I knew it would happen. I was on regency-cate's librarything site, reading and enjoying her reviews, when I was reminded of a series that she got me hooked on: Kate Ross's Julian Kestrel books. I thought, "What the heck" and looked up their availability on amazon.ca. And what do you know, I could get all four, in good to very good condition-- in ( Read more... )

I got to borrow the new Laurie R. King, so I'm holding to my resolution not to buy it. Also am borrowing the new Julia Cameron, an autobiography. Love my manager; she's picking it up for me to borrow from another store!

Updating from work, so that's all I dare post...