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[18 Oct 2008|10:08am] |
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I had such a good time last year that I'm already quite excited about this year...I even have a plot in mind as a second book for the trilogy i started last year. Last year's book was really quite awful...but that's ok, it got finished and that's what counted to me. Hurry up and get here, November!!!
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[07 Oct 2008|09:10am] |
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I am done with college loans! This is very exciting to me. Now I have about eight months left of car loans and will be done with that too, and then I can start saving for a house! I really want a house. A little one. With room for a garden and my shoe collection. And two german shepherds named Jaeger and Nelson. On second thought it might have to be a medium sized house.
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[09 Apr 2008|11:24pm] |
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I was thinking today about how much my mindset has changed and man I must just be getting old because I have absolutely no desire anymore to be somewhere 'cool'. When I was a teenager, I always wished I could be in the coolest place on earth whether it was with the funniest and most popular people I knew, at the most famous club in a big city, or some at rich party on a yacht, just so long as it was considered where all the awesome people went. And now even if I had the chance, wild horses couldn't drag me out to stuff like that because 'cool' just isn't interesting to me anymore. Cool to me is sitting at home in my comfy chair reading, or watching a new movie I've been waiting for, or bumming around town doing errands. I kind of wonder what happened because I used to not want to do anything unless certain people were going to be there or it was endorsed by so and so, and now that just doesn't even factor into stuff. Maybe when people get older they mostly realise they make their own brand of cool or something.
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[08 Apr 2008|12:48am] |
Week lowlights:
catching a nasty cold and looking like death warmed over
being sunburnt on top of death-warmed-over
having to work overtime
puzzling over taxes
being pestered about due dates or deadlines or other time-sensitive ultimatums
getting bruised by just about everything i touch
being guilt tripped repeatedly by mom for reasons i don't even understand
Week highlights:
farmers' fields trash pickups
picnic and rock climbing and lots of muddy pants
being spun around on the merrygoround until almost losing picnic lunch
ultimate frisbee at twilight
warm weather and bees and flowers
getting closer to being the library's first cataloger in over nine years
paying loans ahead of time
done (fairly) well on basketball brackets
having a lovely boyfriend i can't get tired of
finding jeans that fit
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[25 Mar 2008|08:57pm] |
Man I am so bored with the America's Next Top Model judging. They don't even know what they want from a girl. "Oooh, yes, i like that vulnerable look!" and then in panel "you just look sad and beat down." or "that just looks cheesy" on set and later "OH FIERCE." Honestly the judges pretty much just interpret the girls the way it suits them any given moment and it is the most confusing shit I have ever seen on tv...one minute they like a girl's awkward angles which look couture and the next they say she'll just never make it because she hasn't got the self awareness.
The last episode drove me up the wall because they talk all the time about the importance of girls being able to do 'different looks' and then they gripe because someone 'isn't keeping a continuity from photo to photo' due to her diversity. Seriously. Either you get someone who can change expression constantly, or you don't (like Kate Moss who is famous for pretty much one facial expression for like a hundred years now, the crackhead), and fashion is completely, completely subjective. One person's gorgeous is going to be someone else's hideous, every single time. Modeling and fashion critique is so two years ago. Give up on your sad attempts to mold unique looking girls into mute unrecognizable groupies, Tyra, you tired old one-look pony.
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[01 Feb 2008|04:56pm] |
I adore the fact that I can either go to my job in a ponytail and jeans or an updo and heels and both are acceptable. And that my work can consist of something as trivial as discussing a new chick-lit novel with a patron and as weighty as helping them find the right books on alzheimers, mental disorders or cancer impacting them or a family member. It's a job sometimes tranquil, sometimes exciting, always different but comfortable from day to day and I can't even express how happy i am in it!
My room looks awesome, I will have to take picture soon since i painted it and am working to make it look more like a library with a day-bed, armchair, wood stove, bookshelves and window seat.
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[25 Dec 2007|12:14am] |
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merry christmas, and God bless us, every one :D
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[30 Nov 2007|12:15am] |
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I think if there were such a thing as book vampires, I think I'd be the queen of them. When I don't get one for a while I get absolutely ravenous and devour 1300 pages of them in one sitting like tonight, and they make me feel a lot more alive and awake afterwards >.> Although I don't break their spines while feasting. That's a nono. And I'm extremely irritable if disturbed during feeding...do not disturb book vampires! We might throw our prey at your heads. (/random booknerdery)
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[20 Nov 2007|09:47pm] |
Everything has been full of awesome lately....My job is so amazingly perfect and I love the people I work with at the library, and I'm already getting specialized projects like overdue notices and being in charge of donation acquisitions. The lovely thing is that nobody's really in a rush at libraries, so I never have to feel really stressed out unless five people need something different at the same time, but at least I don't have project deadlines. Any job where I get health insurance, paid holidays and free books at the end of the day is fine by me.
And Ben visited which was the best week of my whole life so far, I never thought I could fall any farther in love but I did. We celebrated our two-year anniversary the other day, just one more of many to come :)
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[13 Nov 2007|11:01am] |
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/specials/tutankhamun/article2859486.ece
Dr. Zahi Hawass can piss off and die in a wadi somewhere, in my opinion. Just another continuance in his nationalistic arrogant futile little campaign. I can't believe "he said that the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, the current Earl’s great-grandfather, was only “really interested in making money and taking artefacts”."
Like your tomb-robbing ancestors were any better, bitch. Except they didn't have the sense to collect them, they just sold them to the touristi. I'm so glad that Lady Carnarvon did a polite "lol no" in return, because until the Cairo Museum is in better shape and this swollen-headed monstrosity masquerading as an Egyptologist is out of power, they don't deserve to get even one scrap of pottery sent back to Egypt.
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[01 Nov 2007|11:39am] |
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hm I'm a bit too excited about this nanowrimo thing since I started writing at midnight and rattled out 1680 words in an hour and a half...I foresee burnout. Anyway, http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/238329 add if you like, since author search isn't working.
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[30 Sep 2007|07:36pm] |
It was an up and down week, I think. I was having fun with work at the library and then got laid off for two weeks because the city has some issues before it hires me and I have to go do a drug test and have a physical exam and HOPEFULLY can resume in a few weeks if the bureaucracy gets itself straightened out. The city is in the middle of getting sued for tons because it screwed over some developers so they don't have thirty seconds to vote on whether or not I can be hired. Meh. And then Mom and Dad were rather pleased that I would be home for two weeks because they got their house slave back and we had a huuuge blowup about chores and unreasonable responsibilities and expectations which was also meh.
Happily I was able to get away from them for the weekend though on a float trip with about twenty friends and we had a great time. Sore and sunburnt now but it was wonderful. Played mafia around the bonfire until late, cooked breakfasts, ate on sandbanks and caught crawdads afterwards, told silly stories...all around it was the best time I've had in ages.
( Pitchurs )
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[14 Sep 2007|04:37pm] |
YAAYYYY I got my job...will be working afternoons/evenings Monday-Thursday and then full Saturdays at the library in the next town over...it is a dream come true and a huge relief as I know people who have been job hunting for a library job for a good six months after they get their master's. The pay is nothing amazing but the fact that I will be working in heaven (for me anyway) is more than worth the fact I'll never be a millionaire, lol. Apparently the most difficult thing for librarians is just getting their foot in the door so they can say they have experience, so this means the world to me, professionally.
The nice thing is that I should be able to keep babysitting during the days till i have to go to work...because as much as I gripe about the little brats, I love them to death and I love taking walks and finding bugs and 'treasure' and spoiling them with ice cream and watching movies I would never be able to watch 200 times on my own (aka Narnia, Spiderman, Pirates and The Incredibles).
I'm a bit hooked on EVE right now and am playing it every single chance I get, haha :\
EDIT: Career thingy stole'd:
1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com
2. Put in Username: nycareers and Password: landmark
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top ten results
1. Curator (I was just at the art museum today...we got a new Degas...I could see myself enjoying buying stuff for a museum >.>)
2. Anthropologist (NO. Anthropolologist imo.)
3. Archivist (wouldn't mind that at all...)
4. Historian (yes :P But I wouldn't enjoy teaching it.)
5. Archaeologist (well. obviously.)
6. Tour Guide (boring)
7. Librarian (huhu surprise surprise)
8. Dry Cleaner (...wtf)
9. Gunsmith (LOL gret will be amused by this)
10. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator (don't have the patience)
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Ben> a friend of mine had a crush on hanson before he found out they were guys
that made my day, thinking about the guy finding out...
In other news I had to put Snuggles the bun to sleep yesterday, kind of a hard day. At least I still have a doggie and a cute little rat, but I miss Snuggles :\ Even if she was a meanie. She was so cute and feisty but her arthritis just got the better of her and I couldn't stand to see her miserable. I don't think it has really set in that she's not just down in the basement anymore though.
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[06 Aug 2007|05:19am] |
Insomnia is wack, yo. I can't really understand why i'm on this no-sleep streak of a week now, staying up till it's light outside, then sleeping for just a few hours each afternoon. I need some GOOD home remedies. I have tried the whole warm bath before bed, hot tea, warm milk, fan-blowing, light dinner, low caffeine low sweets thing, and it's just doing nothing for me. My brain is kind of coasting and I think it's because I can't figure out what to do now that I don't have school to worry about; as I realised while talking to Ben about the whole deal, I kind of lived from assignment to assignment.
Sleepy suggestions?
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[03 Aug 2007|02:50pm] |
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Well, I turned in my final project today. August 6th, will be able to say I have my Master's Degree in Library and Information Science. It feels weird. I don't think I like not being a student anymore and I am feeling a little panicked and like I need to jump back in and stay in the academic world. Very fish-out-of-water at the moment...I'm actually not really glad to be done at all and if my scholarship money weren't all finished now, I would keep going for another year and stretch out the classes and take some that I would have liked to such as Rare Books and Manuscripts. Oh well. At least I have more time for genealogy work and piano practice that I've been sorely neglecting.
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[30 Jul 2007|02:30pm] |
Had fun doing a Briggs-Meyers/Jung-like personality test test and am storing the information here...I wouldn't recommend reading it, I just wanted somewhere to keep it so I could look at it, lol.
The test is at http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
( INTJ stuff )
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[29 Jul 2007|10:20pm] |
My brother and I went to the County Fair tonight...I hadn't been in years and it surprised me how small all the rides look, the ones that used to terrify me. And how trite the prize booths were! But it was still fun. We split a funnel cake...I love funnel cake. And then we rode the ferris wheel which was terrifying all over again once we got up high, and the fireworks went on while we were up there...it was awesome! We had a great time in just an hour :D
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