Just a few pointers for those of you who one day find yourself in front of 300 sixth-graders talking about books:

-always make sure your fly is zipped BEFORE you go on stage, because realizing it half-way through the presentation is a little distracting. Thank god for black pants, long shirts, bright lights, and auditorium seating because I don't ( Read more... )

The other day, while driving to DC, I was reading Good Omens out loud to my mother, and we came across this passage:

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, [ie., everybody.] to being involved in an obscure and complex version ( Read more... )

A woman came into the library today ( Read more... )

Matty and I figured out what was wrong with my computer ( Read more... )

So yesterday, I go to do the deposit at work. I add up the amount of money in the drawer: $242 dollars. I add up the amount of money that's supposed to be in the drawer according to the Z report I ran: $1, 622 dollars ( Read more... )

The National Book Festival in DC is on Spetember 27th. I just found out Neil Gaiman is going to be there.

There is officially no power on Earth that can stop me from going. XD

So I had all these great things to write about Mexico. And I had funny stories to tell about work. But I just watched the last Doctor Who episode, and it's left me in the strangest mood. I can't decide if they got their happy ending or not, and that bothers me ( Read more... )

So the wireless at my parent's home went down about a month ago ( Read more... )

It is 4:33 ( Read more... )

Neville is finally on his last leg. There are death rattles coming out of the poor thing. So Matty and I spent an hour yesterday picking out pretty new computer parts from Newegg. Big shiny screen, big shiny motherboard, big shiny box. Lots of shinys. We place the order ( Read more... )