23 posts from August 2006

PLA continues to rock my world. Here's why:

Grow Your Own @ Your Library You have to love an organization that
a) can pull off a drug reference with a positive spin
b) actually gives money to its members and its member libraries
c) doesn't take itself too seriously.
d) puts on relevant conferences every 2 years instead of mediocre conferences every year

Show us some rules.

Wash hands

I love this sign, taken in Chicago, June 2005.

What was (or is) your favorite subject in school?

It always was English, both the literature portion and the language portion.  Though in liberry skool, I liked my adult services & public library classes much more than anything else.

What albums are in heavy rotation for you right now?

30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Toward Ecstasy

Iambic pentameter and Libraries?  It's awesome

This is why I love both tennis and David Foster Wallace.

This present article is more about a spectator’s experience of Federer, and its context. The specific thesis here is that if you’ve never seen the young man play live, and then do, in person, on the sacred grass of Wimbledon, through the literally withering heat and then wind and rain of the ’06 fortnight, then you are apt to have what one of the tournament’s press bus drivers describes as a “bloody near-religious experience.” It may be tempting, at first, to hear a phrase like this as just one more of the overheated tropes that people resort to to describe the feeling of Federer Moments. But the driver’s phrase turns out to be true — literally, for an instant ecstatically — though it takes some time and serious watching to see this truth emerge.

Federer is a thing of beauty.  But so is Wallace's writing.  If you haven't read Infinite Jest, go pick it up and get through it. It might take you one or two tries, but is so very very worth it.

Take a photo of something striped.

Tracey meme matt

My cousin happened to be wearing stripes at Meme's 90th Birthday party today.  So...bonus that I get the vox hunt with it. 

More photos probably tomorrow...

Meme hat

I'm headed up to Phila for my grandmother's 90th birthday party.  It'll be good to see my sister, who is in from Portland, and all the cousins and family that I see about once every 10 years.  My aunt and uncle are coming up from Maryland so that should be a lot of fun too.  I'll post pictures from the party when I get a chance.

When was the last time you had to speak in front of a group?  How did you feel?

I speak in front of groups all the time.  It's really not a big deal.  I'm always anxious that I've prepared enough, can answer the questions, etc.  But, honestly?  I enjoy it.  I guess it's the teacher in me.

What's your morning beverage of choice?  Coffee, tea, juice?  Homemade or store-bought?

Coffee, preferrably Peet's, fresh ground.  I used to be able to have more than one cup, but now?  It's too much for my stomach, so I only can have one and then I switch to water or iced tea for the rest of the day.  But I love really good coffee...