I'm siked, the roommates and I going to do a hard core double feature on Sunday, viewing both Slumpdog Millionaire and Coraline.  I haven’t been to the movies in ages.  The last two movies I saw in the theater were: 'the Day the Earth Stood Still' (except for one tiny moving and well-executed scene the movie was utterly forgettable) and 'The Secret ( Read more... )

Found this via Iambic's post. I don't live in California but I still want to do what I can to help.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Here is the original webpage with a petition to sign if you feel so moved.

Someone set up a TV in the student lounge of the SCILS building.  I missed seeing his swaring in, since  I was in class at the time, but I saw some of the commentary on his speech, the inticial confusion over Sen. Kennedy's condition (he is apprently aware and able to talk, they are still giving updates as they find out more) and I now watching as ( Read more... )

My vaction has offically begun.  I'm off school and work until Monday. :)  Tomarrow I'll go down to my sister's house and help her get ready for both my family and her in-laws who will be arriving on Thursday.  Our parents usually leave Friday night, but my other sister and I will be staying through the weekend.  I'm really looking foward to it, it ( Read more... )

Two wonderful, wonderful words that basically mean my library is paying for me to go fangirl over meet my two favorite children's authors, Tamora Pierce and Bruce Coville.  Yes, this Saturday I am attending the Rochester Children's Book Festival (about a 5 hour drive from me) where about 40 children's authors and illustrators will be doing programs ( Read more... )

I'm tired, slightly headachy and still basking in the afterglow.

Last night after work I drove back to my parents’ house, had dinner with them, then walked down the street and voted. There were no lines, though the poll workers told us that this has been the biggest turn out ever in our town and the poll workers greeted me on sight with  "ahhh, ( Read more... )

Oh HELL YEAH!

WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the first time, I am actually excited about an election. By the time I was old enough to vote I was already jaded, feeling politician was just a fancy word for slime and that ultimately it didn’t matter. Voting, weather Senate, House, President or state, was just an exercise in choosing the lesser of two evils. The one time that I felt it ( Read more... )

So on the library listserv I subscribe to one of the things people post are job openings.  This past week two library's posted ads for Youth Librarian positions, one part time and one full time.  I'm only half way done with my degree, still looking at three semesters before I compleatly my MILS, but they both said they would consider students, so I ( Read more... )

Welll.. moving is going.  I picked up some great funiture from a coworker and moved that into the apartment yesterday.  That went well.  Dad incessently telling me over dinner how I have to really make sure I get my stuff out quickly (while I had just been having my own private freakout over the fact that there is no way everything will be packed  ( Read more... )