Archive for August, 2005
Monday, August 8th, 2005
High Expectations of Libraries
I know so many wonderful librarians, that I have an extremely high expectation of libraries and my library experience.
I think that’s why it took me two days to write this post.
Saturday morning, I had my first really unpleasant library experience. It was actually shocking, on a number of levels.
I was browsing the […]
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Sunday, August 7th, 2005
Visitors!
We had our first two visitors this week, which was absolutely wonderful.
At the beginning of the week, Aleck was in town for a very small conference.
Aleck and I worked together back in 1999-2000. Our quirky senses of humor meshed almost immediately, and we regularly took "tasty beverage" breaks together in the midafternoon. (Hot […]
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Sunday, August 7th, 2005
Jennifer, Hecate, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
Jill and I had a wonderful visit to our local public library yesterday, where she came home with a stack of books so large she could barely carry them, and I came home with a stack of 7 books that were still a challenge to carry, but not quite as much of a challenge.
The […]
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Thursday, August 4th, 2005
What Book Are You?
You know I’m a sucker for the silly internet quiz…but this is my new favorite one. Much juicier than the teen-written Harry Potter quizzes that were invading my brain last week.
You are Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United StatesAfter years of listening to other peoples’ lies, you decided you’ve had enough. Now […]
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
I’ve been lying about my age!
Jill, Aleck, and I were sitting and chatting yesterday after dinner. Somehow, the conversation turned to age, probably because I’m classified as "AMA" in this pregnancy.
I don’t remember exactly what I said, but it was probably an assertion that I’m 34, but considered technically high-risk because I’ll be 35 when the baby is born.
Jill piped […]
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
Cool Web Hack
I stumbled on this link this morning and found it amusing. http://regender.com/index.html
If you put an URL or a google search into this, it will switch all the gender references on the page, including most American names. Richard’s blog was particularly funny (especially the picture of Meredith), as was mine. I thought Leta’s would be funnier. […]
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
It’s been a quiet week here in Lake Woebegon
I’m having one of those pleasantly quiet weeks where there’s nothing dramatic to blog about, but life is lovely:
Jill is excited about being in rehersal for a show;
Our friend Aleck is staying with us while in town for a conference;
After Aleck heads home, our friend Tom’s conference will wrap up and he’ll come […]
