I've started volunteering at the public library. I've gone in a few times now. I've been assigned a section of books (a few fiction shelves and all the Large Print books, fiction and non-fiction) to clean up, as it were. I'm making sure all the books are in correct order (several are slightly out of place, some are in the completely wrong place ( Read more... )

• I read Curse of Chalion this weekend. I thought it started a bit too slowly (or more accurately, was good for the first couple of chapters and then dragged for a few chapters), but really picked up in the latter half. Overall, I enjoyed it quite a bit. It didn't really compel me to want to pick up the sequels and continue exploring the universe ( Read more... )

Problem One: I am completely unmotivated and in a total slump on this dissertation thing. I think this is partly because it is so big with the light at the end of the tunnel still too far away to be glimpsed and what I'm doing now is boring and necessary but doesn't feel productive, partly because it is isolating work, and partly because it is ( Read more... )

I volunteer at a local elementary school on Fridays. This morning the teacher I work with informed me that I would be baking gingerbread cookies with the kids. I guess this really is a baking week for me ;) The cookies were almost as big of a disaster as some of the stuff I've done here because the teacher thought there was an oven in the ( Read more... )

I forgot to go to the elementary school last Friday. The part of my brain that knew I volunteer on Friday mornings and the part of my brain that knew it was Friday were apparently not communicating. I remembered this week, though! Good thing I did, too, because this is the last Friday of the school year. Next week, Friday is a teacher workday ( Read more... )

As per usual, I volunteered at the elementary school this morning. I had an interesting conversation with one of my boys. It went something like this ( Read more... )

Things I have done thus far today:

1. volunteered at elementary school for the last time this year. The kids were so cute. The class gave me a card and some candy and a William and Mary water bottle and then they rehearsed their scene from the pageant the school is doing next week so that I could see it
2. returned some borrowed books to my friends at ( Read more... )

I've decided everyone and their brother has a birthday, anniversary, etc. in March. It really doesn't make much sense. Let's look at just the first few days of March.

March 1
Ron Weasley's Birthday. This one doesn't matter much to me, but I really should include Harry Potter birthdays in my list or else I won't get to celebrate Remus' on March ( Read more... )

I've not been sleeping well lately. Between staying up way too late working on my book lists in general, trying to go to bed but tossing and turning due to panic that I'm behind and haven't got enough done, and the occasional days of too much caffeine buzzing through my system, I've probably been averaging three to five hours of sleep a night for ( Read more... )

Back in September, I wrote a Christmas story for no apparent reason and posted it here. Just in case anyone missed it the first go 'round and is interested in an R/T Xmas fic before the metamorfic_moon Fic Advent really gets going, I've now posted it at FF.net or you can obviously still read it here ( Read more... )