so, i mentioned in my previous post that last week's potter-thon deserved its own post. i am positive there are plenty of you out there who are friends with me on FB and/or in real life that are absolutely sick of hearing me talk about harry potter. well, i'm fairly certain this will be the last i write about this particular subject, since, well ( Read more... )

earlier this week, i was continuing with the morning routine and moving to scoop the litter box. with 2 cats, this definitely has to be done at LEAST once a day. we were doing twice, but that turned out to be a bit excessive. however, if we leave the box 2 days without scooping, it totally shows. anyway, i kneel down and unlatch the lid, for ( Read more... )

marshall and i have been working on our thank-you notes. we've simply split the list down the middle. some people will get thank-you notes written by me and some will be written by marshall. we're balancing a thin line between highly personal and detailed and slightly impersonal and templated. even though it makes things easy for us, using a ( Read more... )

although i look back on the weekend and think it was rather low-key, i did start with hanging out with friends two nights in a row. if you know me, that's a pretty big deal. anyway, thursday night, nic and jesse (nesse or jicole, we haven't decided which is best) invited us over for fajitas and olympics. it was nice and something that i think ( Read more... )

my friend paul from college invited me to come along with him and a few others to see brüno on friday night. i hemmed and hawed. i really didn't want to see the movie, but i definitely wanted to hang out with paul, since i don't get to see him all the often. marshall said that in the end, sometimes it's not about the movie but the company. i ( Read more... )

last night i made chili. normally i follow my mom's recipe for chili, since i usually am disappointed if i try creating something on my own. my sister seems to have no problem just throwing stuff into a pot and coming out with something great. she does this a lot during CSA season with all the vegetables she either a) doesn't know what to do ( Read more... )

first, today, i must express frustration with my overly hands-on manager. the past 3 years, i've worked with managers who have been relatively hands-off. they were laid back and were there if you needed help, but assumed that no news was good news. i was allowed to work at my own pace and as long as i helped produce quality books and adhered (as ( Read more... )

These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users (i.e., they sit on the shelf to make the owner look smart or well-rounded). Underline the ones you were assigned for school, bold the ones you’ve read for your own pleasure, and italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.
( the list )

finished up with another weekend and, like all the others, it went by way too fast...

fridayi worked from home friday, but i ran a small errand in the evening. i went to lens crafters to pick up my new sunglasses. this was the second attempt at prescription sunglasses. the first attempt was with a pair of ralph lauren frames. they looked ( Read more... )

i got an announcement in my listserv for school regarding an event being held at the king library on the SJSU campus to celebrate banned book week. in the announcement they were looking for volunteers to read 10-15 minutes from a banned or challenged book. here is a list from the american library association website of the top 100 banned and/or ( Read more... )