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I'm going to try and do this every week as I love the idea of it, all links go to Goodreads.

What I just finished reading.

The Just City by Jo Walton, this is a fantastic book about what if Athena decided to try and create Plato's Republic. Since time is no consideration for her, she pulls in people from all over time to found and run it. Apollo ( Read more... )

I have a job interview next week and sent off another job application today for a library near where my aunt lives. I do love how when school's decide they want to talk to you, it happens quick. Yesterday I had an email saying are you still interested in this job, today they called to arrange the interview which happens on Tuesday. It's a school in ( Read more... )

To save Twitter from more of my grumblings about this awful book, I'm going to do a partial write up. My father bought Sappho's Leap at the Lewes Library Book Sale and sent it to me. I've yet to have a chance to talk with him about it but my mother and Twitter and chat have heard my amazement ( Read more... )

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do you remember what you were doing ( Read more... )

For the past few days I've had the refrain of "Another suitcase, another town" from Evita in my head, which is odd. Evita isn't a favorite of mine but when I was visiting my parents, my father bought the movie soundtrack because it was cheap at the booksale. He's always been interested in Eva Peron which was why he bought it, also it was a quarter ( Read more... )

I feel like a wonderful wind has caught my sails and I'm heading for all sorts of good things. I meant to post earlier but being on vacation means my sense of time gets a little loose. The biggest thing that happened was on Saturday, a school emailed me saying they wanted to do an interview and Sunday morning I did an interview over Facetime. It ( Read more... )

Today has been a good and quiet day. I wrote a post on my librarian blog over here. Also I've almost finished my personal statement for my private school jobs and feeling productive ( Read more... )

Long ago, I lived in Wellington, New Zealand and tried to write a master's thesis about three odes by the Greek poet Pindar. Today I'm going to share my favorite of these odes and if I can find where I hid them, I may later share my own translations of these odes ( Read more... )

I'm feeling productive as I've been getting some words out there. Yesterday I wrote a gift fic for thebattycakes, it's a William Evans and Bill Pardy fic and might end up being a part one. Today I also posted a poem on my librarian blog called Recipe for a Librarian.

This little meme was just posted on wanderlustlover's journal and I think it's wonderful.

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