Blech. I'm sick. Again. One of the, ah, joys of working in the children's section is catching whatever plague germs is are (ETA: Great subject/verb agreement there, Muse.) going around the elementary schools. I'll be glad when I'm out of there for good and my health improves. I've never had allergies before I started working there, but with ( Read more... )

I just bought a skein of yarn today. It's 100 grams/420 meters, 80% wool and 20% polyamide and variegated with all of the colors of the rainbow. In other words, I have over 450 yards of sock yarn and I have no idea what to make. I was thinking socks and/or fishnet stockings, but that seems like a waste. I want to make something visible and ( Read more... )

Part of my job is buying books back from the public. In the year (almost eighteen months) I've worked there, I've managed to be mostly objective when it comes to books and media I don't like. Everyone has their biases. When a book I want to read or a CD by a group I love comes in, I'll bump the offer up somewhat. But when it comes to awful ( Read more... )

You guys have got to read Scott Westerfeld. He is probably the best young adult author I've ever read. He has three series out, though I haven't read the Midnighters yet. The Uglies is all about genetic manipulation. On your sixteenth birthday, you're given a Pretty operation, but it makes you rather stupid (unless you end up in a job that ( Read more... )

I hate zombie dreams. They always leave me feeling disoriented and disturbed. Like last night. There were zombies and I remember having to get away from them, but I think my subconscious was confused as to the time period. Sometimes it was late nineteenth century, sometimes it was now. Also, the seasons jumped between winter and summer. The ( Read more... )

I think we can put our differences aside for science. You monster.

This is a good breakdown of the feminist anti-feminist movement, the one where Sarah Palin calls herself a feminist despite being against feminist principles ( Read more... )

I don't know what's worse, the fact that they are remaking Yellow Submarine or the fact that I found out about it on failbook.com. Or maybe it's the fact that Carey Elwes is set to play George Harrison. I think the worse part is that it's going to be in 3-D and it doesn't look like it will have any live acting and it might be...fun.

This month's final woman hailed from the territory that would eventually become my home state of Michigan. Madeline La Framboise was was a fur trader, a very dangerous and difficult occupation. But, she was a successful one and it made her one of the most prominent and early businesswomen in Michigan ( Read more... )