You suck at this game!

So I play this game on the drive home.

I drive the same route every night so you get to know traffic patterns and all that. Anyway, if I go a certain speed with no car in front of me I can hit every green light a split second before it turns yellow all the way to my apartment.

However, if there is a car in front of me I hit every red light.

Not one, all.

So of course there was this obnoxious car going under the speed limit and I can't pass them so we hit all the lights.

He sucks at that game.

Oh my god, so I'm watching Jennifer Lawrence on David Letterman, was I the only one who got her First Wives Club reference?

Has no one else seen that movie?

Did people think that she would actually insult Meryl Streep like that?

Seriously?

Bette Midler's character Brenda picks up an award that Goldie Hawn's character won and says something to the effect of, "look it says I beat Meryl!"

I bet I can find it.

HA!



LiLo blowing everything out of proportion. As always.

I'm sorry, tangent.

So, today was the scavenger hunt.

I spent the majority of the day FTFO.

Even this morning making changes and then the hour before realize that one of my clues was checked out so my wonderful Trainee found me a different book and wrote the clue.

But the kids seemed to like it.

Didn't think it was lame. Or at least that's what they said.

And they learned stuff.

Or seemed to.

I had fun making it, though it took like months on and off.

Gotta work with the off desk time all I can.

Anyway, so they paired off and I had 5 sets of clues - cause I didn't want them to just follow each other around the library. Each of the clues was based around the life of a Nebraska author featured in our in-house special library.

They started with microfilm and OF COURSE today of all days some dude decides to camp out on one of the machines and then the articles take a while to find plus the third machine takes forever to load and then neither of them print so I had some skip ahead to the next clues and then work their way around, whatever, after they showed me the article - instead of printing it off and bringing it to me - I gave them their next clue which was a call number to a biography which they had to locate which then led them to adult nonfiction then to adult fiction which then led them to finding information in a specific database - tied to their subject matter - that they had to show me and then after the database was the music section and then we all ended up on 3rd.

Meanwhile, on the backs of all these task/clues were bonus questions specifically about our library system. What are the full names of all the branches? (look for a business card at the desk) Who is ours named after and why? (ask a staff member) What year did we open? (look for a plaque outside the entrance) What animal is hanging in Youth services? What color is this person's portrait's frame? etc. etc. There were more but I'm rambling.

But they all got them right and they took the time to answer them and to go to all these places in the library and they did it without complaint so I'm proud of them.

Anyway, it ended with an awesome tour by our in-house special librarian. Who is excellent. And I'm pretty sure she gets cabin fever cause almost every day I see her fixing displays on first floor.

Love it.

But she had fun with it and the kids seemed to like it. Was a good refresher for me. Got my C-NAMES down.

Long story.

Anyway, that was pretty much all afternoon and really the only thing from the morning was training new staff to work over at one of the other branches. This time there's 3 new girls - one of which used to work at the work branch and is back. The other haven't worked at libraries before. All 3 are pretty awesome and said we hadn't scared them off and they are coming back again tomorrow so, job well done.

And that was my day.

So, on to the music. More of 2012's greatest hits

Starships - Pitch Perfect cast plus Youtubers

cause i think it's cool.


Scream & Shout - Will.i.am and Britney Spears

first of these greatest hits that i don't own. actually this is the first time i've heard the song all the way through. it's not bad, may buy it.

just such a random combination of artists.

We Are Young - Fun

at first was not such a fan of these guys, but they've grown on me. really like Some Nights.


Why yes Craig, it is a great day for America.

I miss this show.

Used to watch it every night for like years.

Literally years.

And LENA'S A GUEST!!

Totally DVR'ing this one.


Useless Information 

a la Craig Ferguson

The reason a vaccination is called a vaccination is because...

When they were searching for cures to smallpox they noticed that milk maids never got small pox, however they did get cow pox. And that little bit of cow pox kept the small pox away. Since the Latin word for cow is "Vacca" it led to "Vaccination".

and just cause i can...



and i'm out.


EDIT

Sorry, Lena's interview was hysterical and reminded me of how often I rewind it when guests swear and they put flags over their mouths and Craig yells something else and I found this great example so I'm adding it cause I think it's funny.



that's how i dance.

"I've always wanted to use that spell!"

Scale of Awesome says 10/10. Cause really, the end of an era demands a high rating. Plus it deserves it. I'll definitely go see it again. Professor McGonagall stole the show. Joking. But she was hilarious. Maggie Smith is awesome. This role and then her in First Wives Club are my favorites.

And honestly, I know this makes me a bad library person, I hadn't read the book beforehand but I loved going in blind because I didn't know how it ended or who killed who. I do like reading the book beforehand because then you're able to understand more about why the characters are doing the things they do but sometimes knowing everything just kills the movie.

We went to the 3PM showing, got there at 2 and read our magazines and all that. First in line so awesome seats. It wasn't as packed as it will probably be tonight. I was glad that there was humor in this one - not like overwhelming but still there - cause the last one was so dark all the time it was hard to watch.

It's sad that it's over. But alas, she's writing again.

After that - well before that was work 9-1, shelved everything there was to shelve, then hit up the movie after getting lunch and wandering barnes and noble. After the movie we ordered pizza and watched True Grit - "I'm a foolish old man who's been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop!" hysterical another 10/10 - and Burlesque 7/10 - it's like Coyote Ugly but in Los Angeles instead of New York - We finally just turned off the Best of Match Game 9/10 because I have to work all day tomorrow.

So I'm out.

Little Miss, Little Miss, Little Miss Can't Be Wrong - 90's music Day Two

Time: 2:30
Location: Couch
TV show on in background: Law and Order SVU season one, woohoo library dvds!
Attitude: Tired, and some dude is drilling something nextdoor so I can't nap. Mean.

Day Two, let's get started.
1. Awesome rock song (probable crossover with pop category)
2. Cool pop/rap song (probable crossover with rock category)
3. Mandatory Country song - since that's what I was mostly listening to in that time of life.
4. TV tie-in - soundtracks and all that
5. And a yes, I did listen to this song and do continue to when it comes up on my ipod, I don't care if it makes me a total dweeb.

1. "Phantom of the Opera Song" Me First and the Gimme Gimmes 1999

Think this is a fanmade video but it works.
I actually learned about them from my younger cousin when we were going somewhere like years and years ago. And since then I got my even younger cousin hooked on them as well. They do remakes of all sorts of songs, Dolly Parton, Billy Joel, Elton John, Dixie Chicks, they even cover Rocky Horror! "Over the Rainbow" is good as well as "Ghost Riders in the Sky", actually they're all good. Hope you check them out.

2. "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" Spin Doctors 1992

Pop-ish rock, I'm going with it.

3. "Sold" John Michael Montgomery 1995

This has an extended "let's dance around like idiots" segment at the end. Hysterical.

4. "You Don't Own Me" First Wives Club 1996

and yes I know the dance.

5. "Amish Paradise" Weird Al Yankovich 1996

I'm thinking he needs to make a comeback. Haven't heard anything out of him since "White and Nerdy" - another awesome song. I also enjoy his polka songs, the horoscope song and of course "The Saga Begins" aka the Star Wars song.