Her job is to stretch three hours of work into a full eight hours. She shelves books, works through sections of boring gov docs ensuring the collection is in order on the shelf, and prepares newly arrived books to join the SU collection ( Read more... )

+ I was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, when my parents were grad students at Michigan and part-time museum security guards ( Read more... )

My coffee shop is a beautiful placeI have an appointment every Saturday at 8:45 AM. I've started stopping by an out-of-the-way coffee shop in an outlet mall (it's an older place, and we now have a Starbucks in town) for a bagel and an iced coffee. (Can I tell you how excited I am that iced coffee has not only spread out of Rhode Island, out of ( Read more... )

Why I was awake my entire household was awake at 1 AM this morning...

Ethan and I both have the plague, or a cold, or something.  We've been sleeping a lot.  Last night, instead of going to a killer luau birthday party in Santa Barbara, we were home in bed.

And the phone started ringing.  No messages.  The house phone, then the cell phone, then the ( Read more... )

Does anyone have a story that their friends tease them about telling again and again? Yes, I know I act like an old lady, and my reputation is only solidified by the fact that I tell stories repeatedly, forgetting I've told them once ( Read more... )

I'm at E's parents' place in Indiana We're here to see the Purdue vs. Syracuse football game (E's a Purdue alum, and I'm from Syracuse). Purdue, as all hardcore fans know, is in West Lafayette, IN, which happens to be the home of William Bailey and Jeff Isabelle, better known to everyon as W. Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin ( Read more... )