puck...puck...puck...i should probably move...yep, good plan.

Souvenir for a lucky fan.



Only stung for a second, though now I have a nice red mark on my side. Luckily I was wearing a lot of layers.

The lady in front of me ducked to save her beer.

Priorities.

And the boyfriend didn't even do anything to defend me, geez. Just leaned away. I'm feeling the love.

That pretty much sums up my week. Birthday included.

I spent it sick on the couch.

I'll get there. Let's start with Valentine's Day.

So I'm at the home branch, and the boyfriend is playing it totally cool. It's Valentine's Day, okay whatever. So I was all, okay whatever, and then suddenly he shows up with flowers.



Totally had me fooled.

Hockey game that night - we lost (and we lost tonight too, I'm starting to think this jersey is bad luck). But Brandon Bollig was there to drop the puck.



He's kind of a big deal now to Lincoln since he's the first Stars player to win the Stanley Cup.

We were laughing because the chicks next to us - who also have season tickets - were all decked out, like the works with makeup plus the Blackhawks jersey and they were all excited to get their picture taken with him.

Okay, so that was Valentine's Day, lots of fun, minus the loss to rival team. Then I went home for the holiday weekend and I started feeling sick Monday - it's been going around work for a couple weeks now.

I texted Queen of the Known Universe asking what her first symptoms were and went, crap cause they matched.

She told me to hit the road before it got worse so I headed back.

I already had Tuesday morning off so I could go get my license renewed but when I woke up Tuesday morning I was legit miserable.

Headache, fever, sore throat, achy, exhausted, all that. BUT I had to get it renewed or I won't be able to go to Vegas.

So I'm like sitting there in a ball in the corner and the lady behind the counter was like...are you okay?

No. But I'll survive.

So I got in removed and that was the last time I left my apartment before this morning (Friday).

Then Wednesday was my birthday so I'm like, I have to do something. This sucks. So I watched the original Star Wars trilogy on Blu Ray. With commentary. I love Carrie Fisher.

I was gonna start from number one but then I remembered I hate number three so I just went with the originals.

Yes, I'm a big fat nerd, get used to it.

But that's all the energy I had. It was that and the Olympics. Go USA. Been watching a lot of hockey, sad day that both our teams lost to Canada.

Thursday I was a little better but I was already scheduled to be off so I spent that day on the couch too.

Somehow, I was gone a week but only took 2 days of vacation. Just worked out that way with the holiday and then the day off.

Today was my first day back in a week and, since I obviously didn't finish the prep for my booktalk, Queen of the Known Universe covered for me and gave one of her own.

Felt she owed it to me since she was the one that probably got me sick anyway.

Take that.

Weight off my shoulders, for serious.

I did also miss out on the Strategic Plan meeting which I was told was "epic". Though "epic" to a group of librarians is probably something else entirely to outsiders.

Again, big fat nerds. Get used to it.

And speaking of big fat nerds, I got my diploma today.

Now I just need a frame so I can hang it up and look all important.

According to Second Sister it makes me kind of a big deal.

Again, big fat nerds. Get used to it.

And that's all I got. On to the music.

Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot


i first heard this on the blacklist - yes, i know, big fat nerd - and it was a lot more dark but i love it.

Acapella - Karmin & Mike Tompkins


0:34....and you thought i couldn't find another version to post. nebraska pride. i know, the obsession never ends. but check this out, it's epic.

that's Mike Tompkins, everything he does is all him acapella. I've posted his stuff a lot on here, but if you haven't seen anything else by him watch this:

Harder Better Faster Stronger cover


it is also epic. possibly moreso.

though this one is also catchy.

Trouble/As Long As You Love Me


he's on tour with Karmin and the Jonas Brothers. I'd go see them...if it weren't for the Jonas Brothers.

Plus it turns out the hairy one's a dude. And the metal one too. All dudes.

Yes, still alive and breathing. Don't worry. I'll have someone notify you if that changes.

Lots of fun stuff happened this week including 3 special guests at the library, 2 movie nights with the boyfriend, and a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff.

It's been a week full of surprise appearances at the library. 2 days ago my adopted little sister came in, yesterday my camp mentor showed up and today Mom came in.

With food. Cause that's what she does. And the staff loves her.

Was cool seeing all of them in my hood.

Yes, I'm declaring it as my hood cause I spend more time there then I do anywhere else.

The two movie nights were polar opposites to each other. Wolf of Wall Street and the Lego Movie.

Let's start with Wolf of Wall Street


Scale of Awesome say 6/10. There was so much nudity and drugs in that movie that if it were ever shown on TV the movie would drop from 3 hours to 15 minutes.

For serious.

*spoiler alert* It would be like the opening scene where he starts working on Wall Street, to him working with penny stocks, to like the boat sinking scene to the courtroom and that would be it.

But it had its moments.

I'm never eating at Benihana again. I don't care whose birthday it is.

The Lego Movie was was literally the polar opposite of that.


Scale of Awesome says 7/10. Lots of funny stuff, plus I love Elizabeth Banks and oh my god Liam Neeson was fantastic as Bad Cop. I kept waiting for him to yell "Release the Kraken!"

Though our favorite part was actually when the Millennium Falcon showed up - cause we're Star Wars nerds, but also cause it was hilarious.

Also had its moments, there were just more of them, hence the 7.

Guarded by a robot army and secondary measures of every kind imaginable. Lasers, sharks, laser sharks, overbearing assistants...

First law of the sea, never place your rear-end on a pirate's face. 

B-Roll of the actors


i love nick offerman and liam neeson. elizabeth gets pretty into it. plus will arnett's version of batman, it's dead on.

plus there's animated behind-the-scenes too. but i skipped that.

Other stuff going on:

Stress seems to come in spurts at the library. Sometime in the next two weeks I have to:
-Research/weed/relocate the literacy collection - which the Old New Guy and I finally got around to meeting about today
-Finish the Strategic Plan slideshow - this is a multi-step process because people are sending us links and info so we're adding it all and then we're gonna meet and thin it down so it's presentable, but we also have to figure out what to say when presenting it to stakeholders
-I also have my booktalk coming up so I am mad-speed-reading a ton of books so I can talk about them without making myself look like an idiot. I'm taking notes as I read so I'll have interesting things to say about each of them. Probably won't have time to memorize it all which means I'm writing it all on sticky notes and then pasting them to the back of the books so when I hold it up I can read it off. (Trick I learned in grad school.)

In other news we're having a camp meeting this weekend so I have to prep for that. Plus this weekend is Valentine's Day, then my birthday and then it'll be Vegas so it's a big month.

I need to zen out. I'm watching the Olympics. I'm a nerd for those as well. Tape them all cause I work, so I'm on yesterday's footage at the moment. Kelly Clark is dominating. I love snowboarding, it's my favorite of the sports, but hockey is fun to watch too. The only problem is that they're not airing the USA women's hockey, just everybody else's so I have to watch all that online.

Like I said, nerd. Was totally sad about Shaun White but I-Pod deserved it.

And speaking of Shaun White...

Songs of the Week: Have a variety for you because it's been a while.

Caught Inside - Bad Things


yes this is Shaun White's band for those of you wondering, but it's also a good song. i like this one and

Anybody


is good too. probably my favorite of the two.

but if you're going to listen to only one of these MAKE IT THIS ONE:

You Gonna Change Your Mind - The Capgun Holdups


cause it's fantastic.


alright, that's all i got. more later. have a good weekend.

I hope I go home with the right dwarfs.

Trivia Night 2012 - Hey, I got flax!
Trivia Night 2013 - Public Transportation is Sexy

So tonight was trivia night and we dominated.

Sort of.

Okay, not really.

Last year we went as That 70's Show.



This year we went as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.


Yes, that is the King of Useless Knowledge as Snow White.

The only problem...we weren't the only ones.



King of Useless Knowledge: "I hate it when I show up to a party and someone else is wearing the same dress."

I liked our costumes better, but theirs were good too. He did have boobs, brother-in-law said he was feeling a bit inadequate when it came to that.

Around the middle of the night they do this thing for a Spirit Award where they have the tables that are dressed up do a cheer thing. Since they did the Heigh Ho song and danced in a circle we each lifted up our adult beverage and just yelled out Heigh Ho! Got more applause.

We didn't win, but we weren't really aiming for that. Actually that went to a table dressed up as nuns and priests who sang the refrain of:



Yes, we voted for them. Though our second choice was the table with the guy dressed up as the Oldest Man from Carol Burnett. It was fantastic.

Next year's is still up for debate. Some options are: washed up child celebrities or famous couples where we dress up as the opposite gender.

Anyway, I think we ended up with like 73 out of 100 which is better than last year's score - barely - but the questions this year were just weird.

The categories were:
1. And the winner is... - I'm proud to say I dominated in this one cause it was all about award shows and you know how I feel about award shows
2. Westward Ho! - was all about geography, we did okay...
3. Follow the Leader - was about important people in history
4. Prophets, Priests and Kings - what's funny is that it's the same thing every year, the paper gets handed to me and Oldest Sister. we got hosed on this one though to be fair the questions were things pastors would get right but not your average patron.
5. The Good Life - was Nebraska trivia
6. Grocery Day - was like brand trivia which was ironic because I had just talked to the professor that made us read Branded in college and she was saying how much everyone hated that book. don't read it, it'll make you over-analyze any bit of product placement possible.
7. Behold the Wonder - was about landmarks
8. Horseplay - was about horses. and we were like, okay?
9. ...and Sons - was about famous father and sons
10. Anything Else - was a miscellaneous one that ranged from the Three Stooges to more history stuff

So we had fun, but the questions could have been better. It's like my brother said, we had the right answers, they just weren't asking the questions to match them.

Alright, song of the day and I'm out.

Better Things To Do - Terri Clark


classic and i totally jammed out on the way home.

legit pre-midnight post, holy crap tag in use.

I dance in elevators.

Another new life motto.

Usually just the slow enclosed one, but today the library was so dead that I was like, whatever. Big glass window, a-woohoo! I was jamming.

There was really no one there to notice. It snowed all day so our only crowd was in the computer lab.

Have you ever been driving on a snow covered road and went, "well, I think this is a lane"?

And then pulled into your parking lot parking basically anywhere because you can't see those lines either?

That was today since 8AM.

A lot of snow.

Which is normal for a Nebraska winter, but not this winter. It's like the third time it's snowed total.

It's all fine and dandy 'til I have to wake up tomorrow and dig myself out.

I used to like snow. You know? I could make forts, and snowmen, and slide across the ice.

Now I'm surrounded by idiot drivers on roads that don't get plowed so I hate it.

There were supposedly 70 plows out today but I didn't see a single one.

Not looking forward to driving to work tomorrow either.

Okay, that's enough of the ranting.

I'm back to Just Shoot Me.

Season Three.



Stoked cause a new company is re-releasing them on DVD which means they might actually get further than season three.

I've been stuck here since the early 2000's.

I loved this show. It was fantastic. That was like the best night of TV cause it went Friends then Will and Grace and then Just Shoot Me. That's how I found it in the first place, cause I was hooked on Friends.

Although so was the rest of America.

There used to be all the Must See TV. Now they're trying to replicate it and they've got nothing.

The only comedy shows I watch on a regular basis are Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls, Mom, Saturday Night Live and Hollywood Game Night.

And Castle. Does that count as comedy? It's kind of comedy.

The rest are just dumb.

Some of those are dumb too, I know, but I like them.

I know, you don't care.

I'm trying to think of things you might care about.

Um.

So there's a lot of snow.

And um, I've been working a lot.

Mostly on my booktalk and this Strategic Plan powerpoint thing.

Although the Old New Guy reminded me today that I'm assigned to yet another project that we had forgot about.

The joys of having your degree.

People think you're fluent in everything libraries.

Oh well, at least I'm involved and not bored.

Other things you may care about...oh yeah, trivia night is approaching.

Last year we did That 70's Show. This year we're thinking Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Is it dwarfs or dwarves?

Apparently dwarfs cause dwarves gives me one of those red underline marks.

Anyway, with my brother-in-law as Snow White cause he's the tallest.

Or cause it's funnier that way, either way I'm excited.

Gonna have to brush up on all my useless knowledge.

Thankfully there are 8 of us and we all kind of have our expertise. But that means anytime there's a book question they look at me so I should probably go over stuff I should know but don't know.

You know?

Song of the Day:

The Elements - Tom Lehrer


love the end. yes that is the song i was dancing to in the elevator. and yes i am a nerd.


Holy crap, they're all on YouTube. No longer stuck on season three.

Okay, now I'm gone. Officially.

Legit pre-midnight, holy crap tag in use.