I am such a klutz ( Read more... )

Several people asked what was wrong when they heard loud knocking sounds coming from my office. It was me banging my head on the desk ( Read more... )

This is how much of a math cripple I am.

When reading the symbols for "greater than" or "less than," I often have to stop and look at which number the symbol is pointing to, before I can say it out loud, because when I first learned it, it was "the arrow always points to the smallest number."

Shortly after I joined Bookcrossing, I got a notification that someone had released a book at the high school a block from my house. I missed it, but I sent the person who had released it a notification that was interested in the book she'd released, and I'd be looking for future ones. Her user name was Cookie Dragon, and I asked if she'd ever ( Read more... )

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For a challenge by megthelegend - who added me out of the blue a few months ago, and I'm ever so glad she did... :) I know this was due the week after you issued it, but it rapidly got out of hand and threatened to become novel-sized. I'm sorry it took me so long...

Meg sez...
senoritafish wants a non-(fiction)writer DARE ( Read more... )

*put here because LJ would not let me comment ( Read more... )

I did get to see Garrison Keillor on Monday night; I ran out at lunch time to get his book Love Me so I could have it signed, and I also brought one that's been on my bookshelf, WLT, for a number of years. It occurred to me that I have been listening to this man and his show for going on 20 years; I believe I started before I went to college. ( Read more... )

Dammit, my brother sent me a link to a video clip with Leonard Nimoy, singing "Bilbo Baggins" and I can't get it to work. I'll have to try the other computer; this one seems to have some settings that don't work and I don't know how to change them.

Maybe you can see it...but I warn you. I think I've heard this before and it may be painful....

I ( Read more... )

At the office yesterday, T. was giving V. a hard time for leaving her pen by the fax machine; he had picked it up and was using it to get people to sign a petition for some union thing and she demanded it back. He said something about putting TEN on all of his stuff so it didn't get lost. I started to say "Is that your intials?" - I was going to ( Read more... )