February In Review
Mar. 1st, 2007 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unforthOnce again, I find myself having posted relatively little for the past month, and chunk of time in which I don't exactly have anything I need to accomplish. (I've taken a few nights off in preparation for the end run on the grants, which we hope to have finished by the 5th...)
So I present...my month! Or what I can remember of it that might be of interest.
School has been pretty neutral recently. My two classes continue to do well; I've gotten A's on every piece of work I've handed in, which sounds like an accomplishment but actually isn't because really the work hasn't been terribly challenging, it's more like "if you do this and put any effort in to it all, you'll probably get an A." Still, it's nice. I'd like to A's in both my classes this year; if I can do that, I think it'll pull my GPA back up about 3.9, and I'll be eligible for the ALA's honor society, which has a steep cut off reflective of the fact that to get bad grades in library science you have to be a real slacker cause the classes are easy to do well in (in general) if you do the work and put the time in. I'm enjoying References Sources for Rare Books a lot in particular, though it's sad, really, because the longer I spend in rare books classes the more I start thinking of my manga as a book collection. I mean, I'm starting (slowly) to approach it as one, though I'm not quite there yet. I've been starting to wonder if there are any manga reference sources, though, and if there aren't I've been wondering if I should create one. I'd say that's a bad sign. Damn rare books classes.
Work at ALF has been going along steadily. I've learned a few new things (how to make portfolio's) and my superiors have agreed to teach me other, more advanced treatments, but things keep coming up that I feel I need to do (note the use of vocabulary, it's on purpose) and so I end up doing the same old things. The coworker who introduced me to North Bennet Street School is excited for me, though, and has offered to help me put together a portfolio, an activity I expect will take a chunk of my time at work next week. Fortunately, they'll let me do that on job time, because, after all, it's improving my work related skills. I'm still trying to figure out what I think would be best. I've got two bound books, two clam shells, and two mohawk (thin cardboard) phase boxes...I've also got the covers and signatures all done for another bound book - I actually bound it yesterday, but it was loose, so I cut it all out. However, if I can get the stitching right it'll be done - it's a coptic binding, which means that it's got an open back and the stitching is pretty. (it's gotten to be a semi-common form for journals, I've seen coptic bindings at B&N and Borders). I hope I get it on the next try, I don't really have time to keep rebinding the same book. :) Otherwise, I wish I knew how to do more nifty stuff, but I guess I'll manage. :)
HEC work has gotten talked about enough, I think. The grants are due on the 9th technically, but mom is leaving on a trip to England on the 6th, so ideally the grants (or at least our parts of them) will be done by the 5th so that she doesn't need to worry about anything other than getting ready for her trip. For my part, I'd like to be done too so that I can get home on the evening of the 8th and rejoice in my spring break commencing. :) I still am sort of in shock that I wrote two whole grants; there is not that much left to do now, I need to write two abstracts (1 page single spaced) from scratch, and then I need to do one or two budget narratives (descriptions of the budget) and a few other random documents, do a last read through of all three to make sure that they are top notch and the right length and stuff, and then that's pretty much it. I mean, it's a lot, but I don't think it's more than I can do over the weekend.
Meanwhile, the school thing continues apace. The application arrived today and I promptly filled out most of it. Much to my amazement, it doesn't request recommendations, though it suggests that I might still need to produce some. It's not clear. Which is annoying, because now I don't know if I should approach people or not. For now, I'm not going to. It also wants my transcripts from college - not a surprise - and my transcript from Highschool, which is more of a surprise. I'm gonna have to contact the school to get it - though I think it's not that big a deal, it seems like that's mostly in there for the students who apply who aren't college graduates - they get a bunch of those, a college education isn't required. My interview/tour is only a little over a week away, wow...
Sadly, work has meant that I'm rather distracted from game the last month. I even had to bitch out once, which makes me sad. Changeling is going rather well, though. I think we're really starting to get some where with this anchor of reality stuff; after I sent out the general "hey, if people wanna talk come talk to me at the interlude" e-mail, I got a couple of requests from folks who wouldn't be at the game, and as I was writing my responses I kept thinking, "yeah, this is starting to come together." So hopefully, I'm not just deluding myself. I implored both those individuals to write me vicious replies that ripped my arguments to shreds, and I'm awaiting their replies with bated breath. Hopefully, they'll find big holes. If not...maybe I really am getting the hang of the metaphysics. I also finally got some time in on my Soundtrack; it's actually a good chunk of the way done, yay! I mean, it still needs some work, but I think I'll have it set by next game, which makes me happy cause I was beginning to despair of ever getting it done.
Aberrant and Buffy are the two other games I've really done in the past month; both were fun. I know, that's a really generic comment. The card combat system for the last Buffy game was nifty and innovative, and I always love having another prop or two to add to my collection of gaming stuff - some day (probably after I move where ever it is I'm moving) I'll assemble it all into a nifty shadow box and it'll bring me pleasure whenever I look at it...I've accumulated everything from the bell I wore in my hair at Changeling's last Yule game to the Valentine letter that Diezel wrote me, to the pom-poms from the Buffy game, the crown from July's Conchordia game, the name tag from the Bes Din game ("Sister Magdelena, Obligatory Religious Fanatic"), the nifty light up arm band that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sapphohestia made her faction for buzzermccain's space LARP, my Harry Potter wand, the gift that Marcus gave to Delia...and all manner of other stuff, and it seems a shame that it all be relegated to a box somewhere. Wow, that was a tangent. Anyway, Aberrant was good too. I didn't have to betray all of my allies, which pleases me obscurely, since it was gonna get bad I fear. Instead, I just destroyed my brain and betrayed my own ethics. Well, there are worse things I guess. :)
I'm excited about the Regency game, I think it'll be a lot of fun. And I'm so glad I already have a costume for it. It makes life much easier.
I've gotten to get out from time to time, though not as much as I'd have hoped. My time sick earlier this month kept me from doing a few things, which was a pity. Still, I got todrydem's play, which was excellent. The Oscar party was also a lot of fun; I actually had good dice luck for once as the dice picked 10 out of 22 Oscar winners in the pool - not nearly enough to win, but not an bad showing really. Still, it was nice to munch on some mac and cheese, cookies, and king cake, and watch people's terrible clothing. Though one or two dresses were nice. :) Wish I'd seen more of the movies, though - I feel that way every year but I never do anything about it. Maybe this year. (yeah, right. ;) )
Earlier this month, I saw Hairspray, which was...unremarkable. I mean, it was entertaining, but it wasn't really particularly memorable. Pan's Labyrinth, on the other hand, was really excellent, even if I had a bit of a feeling of "who got this fantasy in my war movie?" ...or was it the other way around? (quote courtesy ofbuzzermccain. Still, I'm really glad that I was able to go.
Valentine's Day was rather nice.schenker28 and I decided that, rather than sit in our respective homes and feel sorry for ourselves and out single-ness, we'd go get dinner together. We went to a restaurant whose name I still haven't caught; it's a new place on 4th in the same building as Casablanca that serves a Asian Fusion. The food was quite good; particularly awesome was a sushi dish that had three kinds of fish and was wrapped in cucumber instead of seaweed, it was really good. :) Then we headed back to my place and watched "Play it Again Sam" and "Spiderman 2" as a part of our movie exchange (we each pick a movie we like that the other hasn't seen, and do a double feature - it seemed the fairest way. :) )
Uh...that's everything I can think of. But we're gonna see Arabella on Saturday, and I hope to catch the Cirque on Wednesday.
Hm...well, the diet continues apace. For the most part, I find that I don't get all that hungry all the time, which is nice. It has paired off well with the "use of all the food I've accumulated in the house project," too. This project has taken pretty much all February, but I've finally managed to cycle through almost all of the food that I had that counted as dinner (I've got maybe three or four dinners left and then nada). I've still got a lot of breakfast (only one thing, though - lots and lots of oatmeal) and TONS of lunch (far too much muffin mix) and some other odds and ends, but still over all I'd say that it's been a raging success. The muffin mix is gonna take a while to get through, but c'est la vie, I guess. And my French sucks. :) Anyway, the diet, as I said, is going fairly well. I'm down pretty solidly to 150 pounds, and one day (Monday of this week) I was 149 - the first time I've been under 150 pounds since last April or so. (I didn't have a scale over the summer so I don't actually know exactly when I gained the wait. :) ) I was pretty excited about that.
The plans for spring break are coming together pretty well. I'll be leaving on Saturday, driving to Boston (with a stop to dropschenker28 off in New Jersey). I may spend the night in NYC - I need to do a brief search and get a sense of how much hotels are in Boston. If it'll be cheaper for me to park over night in New York than to spend the night in Boston, than I'll just stop in NYC, sleep there, and finish the drive the next day. The plan then is to spend Sunday wandering around the city and getting a sense of it; I don't have anywhere in particular that I want to go, just try to get my feet wet in a new place that I'm, you know, considering spending several years of my life in. Monday morning, then, is my appointment, and I will of course be there. Then, I'll hang out in Boston either til the next morning or until the evening (once again depending on the extent of the difference in cost to park in NYC), and then on Tuesday I'll drive back to Bloomington, so that I can work on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the ALF. :) Only 20 hours, it's not that bad. And then the weekend, the glorious, wonderful weekend, I have freedom. Actual, honest to god freedom. Oh, how I await it...:)
The e-bay experiment has, I think, graduated from being an experiment. In fact, I don't intend to buy any more manga at the store. It's just not worth it when compared to how cheaply I can obtain it online. I also expanded into buying CDs, too - there are too many times I've been sick of not being able to find music by the groups I like best, and I feared that if I didn't start buying CD's, I would instead start buying music on iTunes, which would cost me more and not actually get me a physical item. It's been working pretty well - flat out refusing to pay more then $4 on a CD (including shipping) except with one or two exceptions (I was able to get two Kiroro albums - they were about $12 each after shipping, which, compared to the $32 I paid for the last one and $37 I paid for one of the ones that got stolen last February, I'd say it's a big win. The only other one I paid more than $4 for was a Zebrahead album that I've wanted for two years, and which was only released in Japan for no reason I can figure out; it was $5.50. Instead of the $30 it's listed for on Amazon.) I get outbid on 95% of the stuff I bid on, but who cares? There's always next time. :) In fact, I take a perverse delight in knowing that I drove the price of something up even when I don't win it. Like, "take that!" :)
Jonie's first birthday came and went relatively unremarkably. In fact, much to my shame, I didn't remember it was her birthday until like 9PM. Monday's are just too busy. Still, she is hale and hearty, and starting to act a bit more grown up. I can't believe she's a year old!
On an odd note, I've been having a lot of really vivid dreams. This is very unusual for me, I don't usually remember my dreams at all. This month, though, I've had a lot of really ordinary dreams that I remember fairly well, many of them involving people in my social circle. One, for example, I related insapphohestia's LJ and told to buzzermccain (who found it amusing) involved World of Warcraft. In the dream, Sappho and Buzzer were in the Horde in WoW, except that in the dream world this meant that they were part of a group that met regularly in real life too, and went around saying that they were the Horde. I decided to join because, hey, my friends went, and the dream was of my first attendance at the Horde meeting. It was strange. Then, after the meeting, we left the building it was in and we were on NYC's Broadway, and Sappho, Buzzer, drake_rocket and I, as well as all of the random people who in the club, did a choreographed dance number down Broadway a la Buffy the Musical. It was really weird. Heck, I think I thought it was weird even DURING the dream. And that dream itself had segued from a different dream involving being a slave in some post apocalyptic world. So yeah, just one example, there have been lots of others, even Changeling dreams, even one that was a dream about playing Changeling. I don't know why this started all of a sudden, but it's weirding me out a little cause it's so different than my norm.
Lastly, I've had a few accomplishments that didn't make it into the rest of this post that I thought I'd rattle off.
-I worked a 60 hour week for the first time in my life.
-I messed around on LibraryThing a whole lot. ;)
-I made myself a Wikipedia account and added my first page to Wikipedia. (for the manga artist Tomoko Taniguchi, because I was mildly surprised she didn't have one while I was playing with LibraryThing's new link feature, and I had just read one of her manga's earlier that day, so I grabbed the book I'd just read and wrote up a brief wiki page based on the author info in the book. :) )
-last, but definitely not least, I got off with a warning!! On Monday night, driving home fromdrydem's play, I got pulled over. I was truly shocked, because I really didn't realize until his lights went on how fast I'd been going. I guess my genuine amazement and bemusement shone through; after looking up my registration, he told me he wasn't gonna write me a citation this time but I should be more careful in the future. I couldn't believe it! I guess it's the karma from getting pulled over and ticketed twice in one week back in November. :) Monday was a weird day over all, really, things kept going wrong and then oddly right (like I called NBSS, and they told me to call back at 1:30, and I was mad cause I was gonna be in class and was gonna miss talking to someone there again...and then class was canceled. Things like that just kept happening. :)
Anyway, I guess that's all I can think of. It's a whole lot. Especially all at once. Then again, I rarely post much these days, so just think of this as a few sentences for each day of my month, all those delightful days you were spared any post at all. ;)
So I present...my month! Or what I can remember of it that might be of interest.
School has been pretty neutral recently. My two classes continue to do well; I've gotten A's on every piece of work I've handed in, which sounds like an accomplishment but actually isn't because really the work hasn't been terribly challenging, it's more like "if you do this and put any effort in to it all, you'll probably get an A." Still, it's nice. I'd like to A's in both my classes this year; if I can do that, I think it'll pull my GPA back up about 3.9, and I'll be eligible for the ALA's honor society, which has a steep cut off reflective of the fact that to get bad grades in library science you have to be a real slacker cause the classes are easy to do well in (in general) if you do the work and put the time in. I'm enjoying References Sources for Rare Books a lot in particular, though it's sad, really, because the longer I spend in rare books classes the more I start thinking of my manga as a book collection. I mean, I'm starting (slowly) to approach it as one, though I'm not quite there yet. I've been starting to wonder if there are any manga reference sources, though, and if there aren't I've been wondering if I should create one. I'd say that's a bad sign. Damn rare books classes.
Work at ALF has been going along steadily. I've learned a few new things (how to make portfolio's) and my superiors have agreed to teach me other, more advanced treatments, but things keep coming up that I feel I need to do (note the use of vocabulary, it's on purpose) and so I end up doing the same old things. The coworker who introduced me to North Bennet Street School is excited for me, though, and has offered to help me put together a portfolio, an activity I expect will take a chunk of my time at work next week. Fortunately, they'll let me do that on job time, because, after all, it's improving my work related skills. I'm still trying to figure out what I think would be best. I've got two bound books, two clam shells, and two mohawk (thin cardboard) phase boxes...I've also got the covers and signatures all done for another bound book - I actually bound it yesterday, but it was loose, so I cut it all out. However, if I can get the stitching right it'll be done - it's a coptic binding, which means that it's got an open back and the stitching is pretty. (it's gotten to be a semi-common form for journals, I've seen coptic bindings at B&N and Borders). I hope I get it on the next try, I don't really have time to keep rebinding the same book. :) Otherwise, I wish I knew how to do more nifty stuff, but I guess I'll manage. :)
HEC work has gotten talked about enough, I think. The grants are due on the 9th technically, but mom is leaving on a trip to England on the 6th, so ideally the grants (or at least our parts of them) will be done by the 5th so that she doesn't need to worry about anything other than getting ready for her trip. For my part, I'd like to be done too so that I can get home on the evening of the 8th and rejoice in my spring break commencing. :) I still am sort of in shock that I wrote two whole grants; there is not that much left to do now, I need to write two abstracts (1 page single spaced) from scratch, and then I need to do one or two budget narratives (descriptions of the budget) and a few other random documents, do a last read through of all three to make sure that they are top notch and the right length and stuff, and then that's pretty much it. I mean, it's a lot, but I don't think it's more than I can do over the weekend.
Meanwhile, the school thing continues apace. The application arrived today and I promptly filled out most of it. Much to my amazement, it doesn't request recommendations, though it suggests that I might still need to produce some. It's not clear. Which is annoying, because now I don't know if I should approach people or not. For now, I'm not going to. It also wants my transcripts from college - not a surprise - and my transcript from Highschool, which is more of a surprise. I'm gonna have to contact the school to get it - though I think it's not that big a deal, it seems like that's mostly in there for the students who apply who aren't college graduates - they get a bunch of those, a college education isn't required. My interview/tour is only a little over a week away, wow...
Sadly, work has meant that I'm rather distracted from game the last month. I even had to bitch out once, which makes me sad. Changeling is going rather well, though. I think we're really starting to get some where with this anchor of reality stuff; after I sent out the general "hey, if people wanna talk come talk to me at the interlude" e-mail, I got a couple of requests from folks who wouldn't be at the game, and as I was writing my responses I kept thinking, "yeah, this is starting to come together." So hopefully, I'm not just deluding myself. I implored both those individuals to write me vicious replies that ripped my arguments to shreds, and I'm awaiting their replies with bated breath. Hopefully, they'll find big holes. If not...maybe I really am getting the hang of the metaphysics. I also finally got some time in on my Soundtrack; it's actually a good chunk of the way done, yay! I mean, it still needs some work, but I think I'll have it set by next game, which makes me happy cause I was beginning to despair of ever getting it done.
Aberrant and Buffy are the two other games I've really done in the past month; both were fun. I know, that's a really generic comment. The card combat system for the last Buffy game was nifty and innovative, and I always love having another prop or two to add to my collection of gaming stuff - some day (probably after I move where ever it is I'm moving) I'll assemble it all into a nifty shadow box and it'll bring me pleasure whenever I look at it...I've accumulated everything from the bell I wore in my hair at Changeling's last Yule game to the Valentine letter that Diezel wrote me, to the pom-poms from the Buffy game, the crown from July's Conchordia game, the name tag from the Bes Din game ("Sister Magdelena, Obligatory Religious Fanatic"), the nifty light up arm band that
sapphohestia made her faction for buzzermccain's space LARP, my Harry Potter wand, the gift that Marcus gave to Delia...and all manner of other stuff, and it seems a shame that it all be relegated to a box somewhere. Wow, that was a tangent. Anyway, Aberrant was good too. I didn't have to betray all of my allies, which pleases me obscurely, since it was gonna get bad I fear. Instead, I just destroyed my brain and betrayed my own ethics. Well, there are worse things I guess. :)I'm excited about the Regency game, I think it'll be a lot of fun. And I'm so glad I already have a costume for it. It makes life much easier.
I've gotten to get out from time to time, though not as much as I'd have hoped. My time sick earlier this month kept me from doing a few things, which was a pity. Still, I got to
drydem's play, which was excellent. The Oscar party was also a lot of fun; I actually had good dice luck for once as the dice picked 10 out of 22 Oscar winners in the pool - not nearly enough to win, but not an bad showing really. Still, it was nice to munch on some mac and cheese, cookies, and king cake, and watch people's terrible clothing. Though one or two dresses were nice. :) Wish I'd seen more of the movies, though - I feel that way every year but I never do anything about it. Maybe this year. (yeah, right. ;) )Earlier this month, I saw Hairspray, which was...unremarkable. I mean, it was entertaining, but it wasn't really particularly memorable. Pan's Labyrinth, on the other hand, was really excellent, even if I had a bit of a feeling of "who got this fantasy in my war movie?" ...or was it the other way around? (quote courtesy of
buzzermccain. Still, I'm really glad that I was able to go. Valentine's Day was rather nice.
schenker28 and I decided that, rather than sit in our respective homes and feel sorry for ourselves and out single-ness, we'd go get dinner together. We went to a restaurant whose name I still haven't caught; it's a new place on 4th in the same building as Casablanca that serves a Asian Fusion. The food was quite good; particularly awesome was a sushi dish that had three kinds of fish and was wrapped in cucumber instead of seaweed, it was really good. :) Then we headed back to my place and watched "Play it Again Sam" and "Spiderman 2" as a part of our movie exchange (we each pick a movie we like that the other hasn't seen, and do a double feature - it seemed the fairest way. :) )Uh...that's everything I can think of. But we're gonna see Arabella on Saturday, and I hope to catch the Cirque on Wednesday.
Hm...well, the diet continues apace. For the most part, I find that I don't get all that hungry all the time, which is nice. It has paired off well with the "use of all the food I've accumulated in the house project," too. This project has taken pretty much all February, but I've finally managed to cycle through almost all of the food that I had that counted as dinner (I've got maybe three or four dinners left and then nada). I've still got a lot of breakfast (only one thing, though - lots and lots of oatmeal) and TONS of lunch (far too much muffin mix) and some other odds and ends, but still over all I'd say that it's been a raging success. The muffin mix is gonna take a while to get through, but c'est la vie, I guess. And my French sucks. :) Anyway, the diet, as I said, is going fairly well. I'm down pretty solidly to 150 pounds, and one day (Monday of this week) I was 149 - the first time I've been under 150 pounds since last April or so. (I didn't have a scale over the summer so I don't actually know exactly when I gained the wait. :) ) I was pretty excited about that.
The plans for spring break are coming together pretty well. I'll be leaving on Saturday, driving to Boston (with a stop to drop
schenker28 off in New Jersey). I may spend the night in NYC - I need to do a brief search and get a sense of how much hotels are in Boston. If it'll be cheaper for me to park over night in New York than to spend the night in Boston, than I'll just stop in NYC, sleep there, and finish the drive the next day. The plan then is to spend Sunday wandering around the city and getting a sense of it; I don't have anywhere in particular that I want to go, just try to get my feet wet in a new place that I'm, you know, considering spending several years of my life in. Monday morning, then, is my appointment, and I will of course be there. Then, I'll hang out in Boston either til the next morning or until the evening (once again depending on the extent of the difference in cost to park in NYC), and then on Tuesday I'll drive back to Bloomington, so that I can work on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the ALF. :) Only 20 hours, it's not that bad. And then the weekend, the glorious, wonderful weekend, I have freedom. Actual, honest to god freedom. Oh, how I await it...:)The e-bay experiment has, I think, graduated from being an experiment. In fact, I don't intend to buy any more manga at the store. It's just not worth it when compared to how cheaply I can obtain it online. I also expanded into buying CDs, too - there are too many times I've been sick of not being able to find music by the groups I like best, and I feared that if I didn't start buying CD's, I would instead start buying music on iTunes, which would cost me more and not actually get me a physical item. It's been working pretty well - flat out refusing to pay more then $4 on a CD (including shipping) except with one or two exceptions (I was able to get two Kiroro albums - they were about $12 each after shipping, which, compared to the $32 I paid for the last one and $37 I paid for one of the ones that got stolen last February, I'd say it's a big win. The only other one I paid more than $4 for was a Zebrahead album that I've wanted for two years, and which was only released in Japan for no reason I can figure out; it was $5.50. Instead of the $30 it's listed for on Amazon.) I get outbid on 95% of the stuff I bid on, but who cares? There's always next time. :) In fact, I take a perverse delight in knowing that I drove the price of something up even when I don't win it. Like, "take that!" :)
Jonie's first birthday came and went relatively unremarkably. In fact, much to my shame, I didn't remember it was her birthday until like 9PM. Monday's are just too busy. Still, she is hale and hearty, and starting to act a bit more grown up. I can't believe she's a year old!
On an odd note, I've been having a lot of really vivid dreams. This is very unusual for me, I don't usually remember my dreams at all. This month, though, I've had a lot of really ordinary dreams that I remember fairly well, many of them involving people in my social circle. One, for example, I related in
sapphohestia's LJ and told to buzzermccain (who found it amusing) involved World of Warcraft. In the dream, Sappho and Buzzer were in the Horde in WoW, except that in the dream world this meant that they were part of a group that met regularly in real life too, and went around saying that they were the Horde. I decided to join because, hey, my friends went, and the dream was of my first attendance at the Horde meeting. It was strange. Then, after the meeting, we left the building it was in and we were on NYC's Broadway, and Sappho, Buzzer, drake_rocket and I, as well as all of the random people who in the club, did a choreographed dance number down Broadway a la Buffy the Musical. It was really weird. Heck, I think I thought it was weird even DURING the dream. And that dream itself had segued from a different dream involving being a slave in some post apocalyptic world. So yeah, just one example, there have been lots of others, even Changeling dreams, even one that was a dream about playing Changeling. I don't know why this started all of a sudden, but it's weirding me out a little cause it's so different than my norm.Lastly, I've had a few accomplishments that didn't make it into the rest of this post that I thought I'd rattle off.
-I worked a 60 hour week for the first time in my life.
-I messed around on LibraryThing a whole lot. ;)
-I made myself a Wikipedia account and added my first page to Wikipedia. (for the manga artist Tomoko Taniguchi, because I was mildly surprised she didn't have one while I was playing with LibraryThing's new link feature, and I had just read one of her manga's earlier that day, so I grabbed the book I'd just read and wrote up a brief wiki page based on the author info in the book. :) )
-last, but definitely not least, I got off with a warning!! On Monday night, driving home from
drydem's play, I got pulled over. I was truly shocked, because I really didn't realize until his lights went on how fast I'd been going. I guess my genuine amazement and bemusement shone through; after looking up my registration, he told me he wasn't gonna write me a citation this time but I should be more careful in the future. I couldn't believe it! I guess it's the karma from getting pulled over and ticketed twice in one week back in November. :) Monday was a weird day over all, really, things kept going wrong and then oddly right (like I called NBSS, and they told me to call back at 1:30, and I was mad cause I was gonna be in class and was gonna miss talking to someone there again...and then class was canceled. Things like that just kept happening. :)Anyway, I guess that's all I can think of. It's a whole lot. Especially all at once. Then again, I rarely post much these days, so just think of this as a few sentences for each day of my month, all those delightful days you were spared any post at all. ;)
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Date: 2007-03-02 02:15 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-03-02 03:35 pm (UTC)I was a bit disappointed by the LIS honor society - I got the offer, but I'm not joining any society I have to pay to be and remain a member of. That's just BS.
I'd love to learn about book binding from you.
There's lots of rare book stuff here at the NLM fellowship program, worth keeping in mind if you find uncertain of your options in a year, when the application process comes back around. :)
Wish I could see your regency dress. Pic?
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Date: 2007-03-02 03:48 pm (UTC)Wait - is the LIS society pay EACH YEAR, or a one time membership fee? I don't mind paying once, or even every 10 years, but if they want more than about 25 bucks annual they can go to hell, unless there are some pretty impressive benefits for being a member.
I'd be interested in what sorts of rare book stuff were at NLM, I might even have enough of a bio/chem/phys background to vaguely qualify. I seriously don't expect to get into NBSS on the first try, cause I don't think most people do and I'm not THAT qualified, just fairly qualified. As such, I expect I'll be looking for full time employment, a year position if possible...I'll start job hunting in late April, which is when my rejection will come if I've been rejected, looking for a job whenever one was available, though preferably in late August, since I don't want to pay to rents or to leave Bloomington early. But I will if I have to - a job's a job, after all.
I could teach you some binding stuff if you want - I've found it REALLY easy in many regards, probably because of the sewing background, I suspect you'd find it the same. It's not all that hard, really. :)
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Date: 2007-03-02 04:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-02 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-02 11:09 pm (UTC)So I get to see you for one day, possibly when you'll only be asleep? Way to show me the love hun :P
-- Gerardo
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Date: 2007-03-02 11:40 pm (UTC)I wouldn't mind being as thin as you dude...if only I could be as thin as you and eat as much as you do, that'd be AWESOME. Imagine all the pizza I could munch...ah well, it's a pipe dream. ;)