In an effort to shake the chronic torpor I've been in at work for most of this week, I thought- hey! Cool! I still have a stash of old mix tapes! I'll listen to them and maybe I can focus.

What the hell was I thinking?! I was a very angsty, frustrated teenager. I grabbed a tape at random, you see-- not all of them were done by me. This one was.
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My mom posted a lot of pictures she just scanned from the '20s, '40s, and '50s. Here she is with sister Leslie and brother Mike. I'm so my mom's kid.


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So, when talking to
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Allen Smith, the man who taught me my first lessons in reference librarianship, died a few weeks ago. He was snarky, emphatic, and was a man of many talents. I have just been reading through a wiki of A Smith quotes, and this one was worth sharing:

"Criticizing the Britannica was something like stomping on an apple pie."
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I do go on and on. I'm definitely writing for myself more than anyone else. Just so you know.

I'm constantly in a state of comparison when I'm here: then from now- Home and how this isn't it.  Example- Cleveland circle- the rotary going up to the Art museum. People bloody STOP in the middle of the rotary to yield to the traffic coming in from 2 ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to do this for a while, and now I've got all the parts required to make that happen. I just scanned the pictures (they are not high quality, which is too bad, but they'll do)

I have to say that the images I chose for scanning and the ones I chose for current have very amazing parallels in composition, and were ENTIRELY coincidental ( Read more... )

Oh yeah!! I meant to say also, but this is worthy of its own heading, that I have completed the comissioned tins for my Etsy customer. They're still visible in my shop. I also uploaded 12 new pieces of jewelry and 2 new tins that are not already claimed.

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Every few months or years, I have vivid dreams of particular people. Last week- or the week before?- It was Rob. He and I were very close at the end of high school and as folks do, we lose track of each other. Thanks to the miracle of myspace, I think I snagged him again. Chalk up my persistance to last week's success. Would that Robby lived in ( Read more... )

Yesterday and the day before I was in a major funk. Today it's like I'm a different person altogether.
First boost was getting a call at work from a woman requesting 100 copies of my records management brochure I did at the end of last year. ?! Holy cow!

One of the directors who helped edit also had her husband help. He knows the legal details and ( Read more... )