I made my first little animal out of felt today. I came into the studio, which is a little house, where for days I have been just threading warp boards (winding threads with colors like "autumn blonde" and "lilac snow" back and forth between wooden knobs, yards and yards, 8 yards, 204 threads etc.) but today all the warp boards were occupied, so I ( Read more... )

Things are inexplicably looking better!

Things are certainly looking worse.

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At our crew meeting this week, my boss filled us in on the results of the campus-wide survey about library services. They basically said our crew was too rambunctious yet eager to please, along with such gems as "ya'll are cool, especially Max," and "all the people on library crew are good-looking. What's with that ( Read more... )

On the way home from work, I was sipping my lukewarm and over-sugared coffee when I discovered a live ant in the swill! A coworker was walking by and saw me putting my spoon to a tree so I had to explain. Is the natural universe trying to tell me that coffee is no good for me? No good for my little teeths. No good for my swashy pink guts. No ( Read more... )

I have not posted in a year I think, and I really don't have anything to say. I am just trying to avoid reading "A Defense of Poetry." Because really, Percy Bitch Shelley, when you have that much to say about it it's called OVERLY defensive. And hyper sensitive. Who are you trying to convince, Shelley? Me or you? What emo kids all those ( Read more... )

The federal government made it so the government-funded John Hopkins site on reproductive health censored every search with the word abortion so people couldn't see the articles! Was that at all articulate? Did that make sense? But then millions of librarians and women flooded the blogosphere and e-mail boxes at John Hokpins! Go librarians and

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The best thing ever.

I am thinking of that song from Space Jam that goes "Basketball Jones oh Baby oohoohooh" because of all the elite eight business going down. Memphis and Davidson! My mom attended the ladder and she reads me articles about it all the time so it's transferred to me. What a miraculous sport ( Read more... )