She pulled on a thinking hat and thunked
Sometimes I forget just how rad the Seattle Public library's website is until I try to find information for other people on their library websites.
Nice catalog. Goooood home page navigation tools. Like a site map! Awesome! *pets* Horizon, you have your downsides (not being able to use browser navigation arrows/time-out rate/tag searches still suck because they haven't blended in from LibraryThing's database), but you are still so robust. Down with limited keyword searches! Up with the possibility to search with exact phrases! What the heck is a super keyword anyways, because that other catalog's help button didn't say!
/geek
During a date on Sunday I re-ran into the ex who works at Ballroom. Only this time, I received a Facebook message from him afterwards saying he didn't know if he should have introduced himself or not, asking how was I doing, blah de blah the usual pleasantries. It is kind of amusing that he only sent this note after seeing me there with a boy, but it's also nice that he cares enough to send the note.
Exexexexex. x. xx. Someday I will move away and find new haunts where there won't be any ghosts of anybody I know, but I'll just end up hanging new shades. Bri & I had breakfast at Beth's, where he handed me two books for my birthday:
♥ Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
♥ The Night Watch (Book 1) by Sergei Lukyanenko
Bri has somehow managed to rarely gift a book that I already own, and he puts a lot of thought into these selections--they're always a little outside of my reading cloud but either titles I already intended to read or delightful newcomers. One of my favorites was Perfume by Patrick Suskind; after reading it, we watched the film together while yelling at the screen when the director skipped critical passages.
Mutual admiration societies for art (literature/films/theatre/food/etc.) are sometimes the only strings that really keep me connected to other humans. Everything else largely amounts to melt-away details found frequently elsewhere.
Because of that, I kind of think that the people we get along with best are those who have similar levels of similar interests that run parallel but not perpendicular to our own. To elucidate: the thing that keeps me interested in discussing books with others isn't that I expect to gush over how much we both like this one author: I expect our combined interests will challenge each other to introduce or follow-up with authors or titles in similar veins. If we stopped at the "Oh, you've read that book? Me too! Did you like it? Me too!" level, the other person would probably be mentally marked as a generally swell person but not necessarily as one who is worth connecting with. It is only when they take that second step, the one where we both contribute towards the development of the other person's passion, that the bonding begins.
Nice catalog. Goooood home page navigation tools. Like a site map! Awesome! *pets* Horizon, you have your downsides (not being able to use browser navigation arrows/time-out rate/tag searches still suck because they haven't blended in from LibraryThing's database), but you are still so robust. Down with limited keyword searches! Up with the possibility to search with exact phrases! What the heck is a super keyword anyways, because that other catalog's help button didn't say!
/geek
During a date on Sunday I re-ran into the ex who works at Ballroom. Only this time, I received a Facebook message from him afterwards saying he didn't know if he should have introduced himself or not, asking how was I doing, blah de blah the usual pleasantries. It is kind of amusing that he only sent this note after seeing me there with a boy, but it's also nice that he cares enough to send the note.
Exexexexex. x. xx. Someday I will move away and find new haunts where there won't be any ghosts of anybody I know, but I'll just end up hanging new shades. Bri & I had breakfast at Beth's, where he handed me two books for my birthday:
♥ Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
♥ The Night Watch (Book 1) by Sergei Lukyanenko
Bri has somehow managed to rarely gift a book that I already own, and he puts a lot of thought into these selections--they're always a little outside of my reading cloud but either titles I already intended to read or delightful newcomers. One of my favorites was Perfume by Patrick Suskind; after reading it, we watched the film together while yelling at the screen when the director skipped critical passages.
Mutual admiration societies for art (literature/films/theatre/food/etc.) are sometimes the only strings that really keep me connected to other humans. Everything else largely amounts to melt-away details found frequently elsewhere.
Because of that, I kind of think that the people we get along with best are those who have similar levels of similar interests that run parallel but not perpendicular to our own. To elucidate: the thing that keeps me interested in discussing books with others isn't that I expect to gush over how much we both like this one author: I expect our combined interests will challenge each other to introduce or follow-up with authors or titles in similar veins. If we stopped at the "Oh, you've read that book? Me too! Did you like it? Me too!" level, the other person would probably be mentally marked as a generally swell person but not necessarily as one who is worth connecting with. It is only when they take that second step, the one where we both contribute towards the development of the other person's passion, that the bonding begins.