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Nov
30
Et Tu, NaBloPoMo
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In all honesty, my feelings of self-satisfaction are more than enough prize. I have a sense of accomplishment. I finished something. Fully completed it. Kept up my end of the bargain. Was it always easy? No. Did I feel like posting on Thanksgiving? No*. But I did it. And actually, posting on the weekends wasn’t as terrible as I anticipated. I kind of liked that people were out there waiting to read what I had to say, nonsensical though it may have been. Mind, I won’t be continuing the weekend trend through December- I have waaay too much to do to be entertaining you! But I’m very glad I did it.
And bonus: I have lots of new blog friends to boot.
Morgan Spurlock, you can stuff it. There’s a new girl in town and she rolls 30 days-style too.
*Ok, so it was a cartoon. I still had to find it and upload it and post it, people!
Nov
29
Flu-zy
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A new stomach bug is rampaging the school. Two people that I know of for sure have been suddenly, and without warning, struck by the extreme urge to vomit all over everything. And while I feel for them and their intestinal pain, I would also like to say to them: “GO. HOME. I do not want your illness. I like keeping my food inside my stomach, thank you very much.” Unfortunately, even if they do stay home this place is like a breeding ground for viruses. I only need to watch the kids at the computers in the morning to know that there is no way for me to avoid contracting every disease known to man just by being here. I especially like to watch the diggers. These are the kids that are constantly searching for something deep in their noses, ears, butt, whatever. They’re the ones working hard to dig something up. There’s also the kids who sneeze, cover their mouth, look at their dripping, snotty hands, shrug, and start typing on the keyboard. They’re only slightly better than the kids that actually just sneeze all over the keyboard itself- no apologies there.
My point: if there is a stomach bug going around, chances are I will get it. I’m just hoping I get it on a Monday night and not a Friday night. And I hope it’s next Monday night, because by then I will have cable and internet and if I have to lay in misery, at least I can have the Food Network to cheer me up. Last night Chris told me that he got us the best internet and cable package Comcast has to offer. “Isn’t that, like, $150 a month?” I asked dubiously. Well, I very much underestimated Christopher’s salesmanship- apparently he coerced the Comcast customer service lady into giving us a sweet ass deal on the package (almost $100 off!) by telling her he would refinance her mortgage for her. Props for using those B.S.ing skills for our gain, C!
Anyway, tomorrow is the last day of the NaBloPoMo. I am both relieved and a bit sad to see it complete. And strangely proud, too; barring some freak accident of nature tomorrow I will have completed all 30 posts in 30 days and I never even reverted to the old “I can’t think of anything to write today” standby. Yes, I rock like that. Seriously though, thanks to all the new and random people commenting and reading these little blurbs. I love it. For real, not for fake.
Now the only thing I can hope for is some awesome prize from the good people at Fussy. Border’s gift certificate, come on down!
Nov
28
Librarians Need Breaks Too
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In other news, Chris and I are about 95% moved in to the new place and about 40% unpacked. Having everything in a disarray offends my librarian sensibilities, so I’m trying to get things put away as quickly as I can in between fits of cleaning, straightening, and trips to Target. Chris also bought a new bed and let me tell you, I didn’t even know how bad my bed was until I slept on this dream mattress. Oh beautiful sleep- never has waking up pre-dawn been so difficult. All I want to do is go home and take a nap. Alas, I am a busy girl and have things to do every day after school this week. Boo hiss.
I was feeling very responsible yesterday while in the middle of cleaning, sorting, paying bills, and folding laundry. So I decided to take advantage of my momentary lapse into adultdom and make a list of all the things I need to get done in the coming month. Word to the wise: if you’re like me and you don’t like to have things unfinished, do not create a list of things to get done around the holidays. Reviewing my list I became simultaneously depressed and anxious. Then I lost all drive to do anything more and I sat on the floor in the middle of my mostly empty bedroom and watched Simpson’s reruns while eating Cracklin’ Oat Bran out of the box.
No need to worry about me though- I’m back on track today. I will get all my Christmas crap done. And I won’t even whine about it. Much.
Nov
27
Library Find of the Day
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I was helping a student find books on the future of the government for a research project. Being a librarian (and a nerd) I was very excited to find a book in my catalog called Future Government: Our Future World. Then I got to the shelf and found this:
Well, ok. So it shows the government flying around in a spaceship. So what? It could happen, right? Maybe this book would be a wealth of information! Boy, was I ever right. When I opened it up to find a description, I found an excellent synopsis right in the front cover.
I learned one other thing from this book: in the future, all global issues will be solved by arm wrestling. Good to know.
Nov
26
Ok, remember when I said I had moved all my stuff to the new place? Well, I thought I had until I spent all this morning moving more stuff. And it’ll probably take another two trips. At least. Pretty sure my belongings multiplied during the night, I don’t recall having this much stuff. It might not have helped that we spent about 5 hours in an IKEA vortex yesterday. But we bought stuff. Oh yes we did.
In any case, no time to chat today. More tomorrow.
Nov
25
Busy Much?
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Thanksgiving dinner: check
Birthday cake and presents: check
Moving all of my (and Chris’s) earthly belongings to the new place: mostly check
High school ten year reunion: would have been a check if the idiots had planned one
Seriously, what kind of reunion committee has a five year reunion and then neglects to hold a ten year? Yeah, go Owls. Instead, a bunch of us are getting together for dinner which is actually fine with me because it’s likely I would have ended up standing in a corner laughing at all the losers with them all night anyway. Now we’ll just have to find other people to make fun of.
Anyway, Thanksgiving was delicious as usual and I felt very thankful to have my family and C there. I also got a ton of awesome birthday presents: C got me Guitar Hero II with the red bass so we can rock out together; he also came through with some flowers and a delicious night out at Figs, which I’ve been meaning to try since I moved to the city. My parents bought me a new pizza stone and pizza slicer, plus a new set of snow tires which I think will prove useful once the weather drops down below 65 here. My sister bought me a handy gift certificate to Target, which was awesome because I just bought about $100 worth of cleaning supplies for the new place. I also got a hand-knit bag from my aunt, 80’s Pop Culture Trivial Pursuit from my cousin, and a little rose plant from my roommate. Yay birthdays!
Yesterday my parents, my sister, and her boyfriend all helped me move a ton of stuff to the new place. My mother also cleaned the ish out of my new kitchen. A very big thank you to them. I’m pretty sure I have the best family ever. Christopherson had to work (damn you, corporate America!) but we are going to do some more moving and cleaning today, plus a trip down to the ol’ Ikea. Hopefully the place will be liveable very soon.
And that’s all the news that’s fit to report. With that, I’m signing off. Till tomorrow, peeps.
Nov
24
How Old Are You Now? Damn.
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… And happy birthday to me!
Nov
23
I hope your wildest turkey dreams come true… or turducken dreams.Whatever floats your boat.
Nov
22
A partial list:
- Day 21 of NaBloPoMo (almost done! my weekends will soon be post free)
- 1/2 day at school
- Pig races!
- Thanksgiving tomorrow (scrumdiddlyumptious)
- My birthday the day after (presents and Cookie Puss!)
- Turkey
- My friends and family and my Christopher
*…but I am not thankful to you, grammar, for making my blog titles difficult.
Nov
21
Singularity
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A recent study at a local school library yields surprising results: librarian is actually stuck in a time/space vortex while inside the library.
While her complaints about the days “dragging by” and moving “soooo slowly” fell mostly unheard or ignored by co-workers and loved ones, she was proven quite right when scientists recently discovered that her library resides directly atop an ancient singularity site. This site explains the dichotomy between the days that seem abnormally long and the fact that is already Thanksgiving.
According to one scientist, the asbestos in the walls and floor act as a superconductor for the vortex. When asked to explain, he stated: “One hour in that library is actually equivalent to a normal work day for most people.”
When asked how she felt about this new development, NPW made this statement: “I knew something strange was going on around here, but noooobody would listen to the librarian! Now it’s already Thanksgiving, but it’s going to feel like another hundred years till we get to Christmas. Geez.”