The fan on my macbook is making terrible noises. I tried all the reset suggestions. I think I'm going to have to take it apart and look inside to see if there's something physical that's making it so noisy. Because the whirring grinding sounds kind of make me want to kill myself.

Today at the library was pretty interesting. There was a reception for ( Read more... )

Well, it's better than it was, but it still hurts all the time--a throbbing pain ( Read more... )

The wind blew it all away in the back, but looking out the front door:
( Among the top 10 NYC blizzards! )

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Here it is Monday afternoon and there is no snow. But I see snow has been taken off the weather menu whilst my attention was elsewhere.

This weekend was a mixed bag. I notice that almost everything is off my to-do list with the exception of "Put together composter" which now seems like it won't get done till January.

The financial situation still ( Read more... )

It's the end of another week! Almost. Tomorrow is the last Saturday of the semester, yay. ANd then I will have four Sturdays off, so eventually I will take all the annoying old clothes to textile recycling.

Weds. at the library there was yelling, and Thurs. there were tears. Today, like most Fridays, it was fairly quiet. The low points were no white ( Read more... )

HP: What's your favorite coffee joint?
DK: As luck would have it, the greatest café in all the land is one block from my house, and it's a cozy, wooden, perfect nook called Mojo, on Charles between Greenwich and Washington Streets. It's the Far West Village's living room. The coffee is of course top-notch, but the food they produce in a tiny little ( Read more... )

- Last night I re-read The Great Gatsby, for the first time in possibly 20 years. I recommend it. Also, being to immediately obtain a copy of it is definitely a library-worker's perk. There was an ENTIRE SHELF of editions of Great Gatsby. And have I mentioned that the literature/English bibliographer is an amazing guy? He is actually a scholar of ( Read more... )

The Mayor of Sound City

There are many millions of stories in the naked city. This is just one of them ...

P & T are watching "Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging" together ( on Nickeodeon!). P is explaining English slang to T. It's very cute. I'm a little alarmed that T thinks Georgia is ugly, since she looks a bit like me (though, tbqh, I am more of a cross between Georgia and Lindsay ( Read more... )