Nothing quite as inspiring to update lj like the option to procrastinate on something else. I'll be teaching a course at the national library next week and I need to update and send my material. soon.

Yesterday I posted on facebook: all work and no play makes verena a dull girl.

so today I tried to remedy that by leaving work early to visit the ( Read more... )

i know ( Read more... )

There's too much going on at the moment, so I don't have time to post. I hate it when real life prevents me from living my virtual one ;-D

Today my brother dropped by to return books and borrow some more. On top of that my sister S, my sister T and her boyfriend showed up. I lent him all my Terry Pratchetts for a month. My shelf looks awfully empty ( Read more... )

In case you ever wondered, where I have got it from: I told my mum about LibraryThing a while ago and she asked me to send her the URL. A couple of days later she sent me a text message saying: she catalogued 200 books. now she either needs to pay up 20$ or stop cataloguing.

I thought 20$ isn't that much, especially since she always wanted to have a ( Read more... )

Does anyone remember this?

Almost one year after the arson at the library I work at, a suspect has been arrested in connection with the arson! The article, in German, is here, but the gist is: a 48 year old man with a personal connection with library was arrested based on new evidence, that the police call "crushing".

I know he's only a suspect and ( Read more... )

so what happened since the last update ( Read more... )