"Hi, my name is Adam and I'm gonna sell you a car right now. I NEED you on my team!"

I kicked it old school today, jammed at the home branch with the Queen of Awesome and Joe Studley with special appearances by Sensei and John Boy.

Was cool, got to do the whole deal, bookdrop, holds list, opening, delivery, lunch break, covering for a lunch break, then help John Boy prep for a computer class and took off at 6.

Righteous man, I miss it there.

It's a totally different atmosphere.

As cheesy as that sounds, it is completely different.

This is a neighborhood library, small building, small patron base, slow pace. The work branch is the complete opposite. 4 floors, huge patron base, frantic pace, and there are other branches that are even bigger and more frantic.

Was great going back, had flashbacks.

So here are your reference fact or crap for the day.

-Racecar driver Lee Petty once left a pitstop and did a full lap at Nascar with a pit crew member still on the hood.

- In West Virginia you cannot fly a red flag in front of your house if you are disappointed in your sheriff.

- In Hong Kong a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do so with her bare hands.

- Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.

- Bees have five eyes.

- Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys.

- Plastic law flamingos outnumber real ones in the US.

- Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.

- At the end of the Beatles song "A Day in the Life" an ultrasonic whistle audible only to dogs was recorded by McCartney for his dog.

- According to a study men prefer white bedrooms and women prefer blue ones.

- When movie directors don't want their names to be seen in the credits they use the pseudonym Allen Smithee instead. It's been used over 50 times.

- Apparently the boyfriend thinks unpacking groceries is sexy.

Not.

But I did get some good food at Target, plus some camp stuff woohoo! Then came home to watch The Voice, Juliet all the way! Though I'm thinking it'll be either Tony or Jermaine.

Sad to see Katrina and Jamar go, but they'll keep going. Now that they have fans. Lots of artists from the first season got record deals. I'll look forward to Jordis'. I'm attempting to get Rockstar INXS from Interlibrary Loan as they highlights were put out on DVD. And she was on it, got 5th, with dreads. But cut 'em off after all that.

So my cat is giving me a massage. It's amusing. He does this frequently, then he bites me. As kind of a hello, I'm still here. In charge. Just cause you think you're the boss doesn't make it true.

Okay, well the fact or crap is my humor for the day. I'll hit you with more tomorrow.

"Oh Darling" Juliet Simms
gotta show some support. dare you to find one person who isn't completely blown away by this performance. or Roxanne. love that Adam gets really into it. i love her voice, it's just so different and gravely and awesome.
Team Cee-Lo is actually pretty dangerous with her, though I'm not sure she can beat the fanbase supporting Tony Lucca or Jermaine Paul. Would be interesting if the operatic Chris Mann wins it.

As for now I'm for Team Juliet, even though Christina is my favorite. Adam and Blake come in at a close second.

knowing that you lied straight-faced while i cried, still i look to find a reason to believe...

Alright, so here's my top ten for The Voice:

1. Jordis Unga - yes she is my favorite and i've raved about her for weeks so get over it.
2. Pip - rockin' the bowtie man.
3. James Massone - he's just so good and i love his letterman jackets.
4. Tony Luca - former mouseketeer
5. Angie Johnson - aka the marine - kicked out during the battle rounds
6. Jermaine Paul - backup singer for Alicia Keys
7. Juliet Simms - gravelly voice of awesome
8. Adley Stump - country rocker - kicked out on the battle rounds
9. Sera Hill - killer runs - kicked out during the live rounds
10. The Line - killer duo - kicked out during the battle rounds

though I also enjoy Katrina Parker, Jessie Campbell, Jamar Rogers, Kim Yarbrough and Ashley DeLa Rosa.

I can't stand Erin the model. I'm sorry just no. Can't do it. The Shields Brothers won that battle and they would have rocked it tonight. "Walk Like an Egyptian" really?

Anyway, my top ten are kickin' butt. Well, those of them that are still in.

And as much as it pains me, literally pains me, Cheesa, the Hawaiian girl that beat out the marine in the battle rounds totally rocked it tonight.

I want to hate her cause she knocked out the marine, but dude.

Dude.

"Don't Leave Me This Way" by Thelma Houston, oh my god I'd post it if it were uploaded.

And she's Team Cee-Lo who's all about the flair and the fantastic so there were lights and costumes and dance moves and dude.

I'm proud to say that Juliet Simms probably had the best performance of the night with "Roxanne" I will have to download that one later, and of course you got James as well singing "Don't Know Why" by Norah Jones?!?! But he pulled it off, even though he was completely focused on the ladies in the crowd.

Smooth man, real smooth.

Tony and Kim weren't at their best tonight so I'm wondering how that's gonna affect their outcome tomorrow. But they have enough of a following that they may be fine.

Sorry, I'm sure you don't care about my Voice ramble-nations, moving on.

Today I was a mess.

A complete and total disaster-in-progress.

Just flustrated.

Yes, flustrated.

Word of the day.

The act of being flustered whilest frustrated.

Mondays always means backlog, but since we were closed yesterday it was even more crazy today and tomorrow will be more of the same.

I have so much supply stuff I need two hours to get all the way through it tomorrow.

And this was after an hour's worth today.

And I'll probably need more.

But I won't get it because there's also a TAB meeting, to which I also have a lot of stuff I need to prep for. aka agendas, snacks, ya area stuff, summer reading stuff, etc.

I love it.

I do.

I love my job.

Everything about my job.

Well, maybe not the creepy stalkers so much, but everything else is pretty awesome.

And I like supplies and TAB but today was a bit overwhelming.

Fearless Leader had to walk me to my car after work, haha. Pretty sure she thought I was gonna space and get hit by a car or something.

Flustrated man, flustrated.

So The Voice was an essential zen tool.

And the day started out so calm too!

Got to jam at the home branch, checked in bookdrop stuff, stamped papers, pulled expired and cancelled holds, pulled the regular holds list, turned on all the computers and that was all before ten.

But it was calm and relaxing cause it was like familiar? you know? Though things are a little different there now I'm still a home branch shelver girl at heart. It was where I got my start and I made great friends.

Whom I'm stoked to jam with for inservice day.

As stoked as one can be to sit in seminars all day 8-5.

Anyway, it was a bit like a flashback today with morning at the home branch and afternoon at the work branch. And the funny thing was that I totally turned the wrong way out of the parking lot. Which is sad cause I used to take that route EVERYDAY!!! For like a year in a half!!

Like I said, flustrated.

Morning at the home branch, afternoon at the work branch, potato bacon soup for lunch, Angry Birds in Space on the ipod - cause yes earth wasn't enough and it rocks so shutup - supplies and YS all afternoon and then rockin' to The Voice tonight meant a full day and I'm zonked.

As is Carter who's decked out on the couch next to me.

He had a big day of laying around the apartment, you know?

He deserves to sleep some more.

His life is so rough.

As I can't post the music I want to I'll hit you with a backup instead.

"Reason To Believe" Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood

"should we do this one with or without glasses?" classic.

Sail on, Silver Girl

All day at the home branch with Joe Studley. He would have rocked it at trivia night, he's all about that stuff. It'd be interesting to do a library version of that. I'm already thinking about doing one for camp.

It was a good day, flew by pretty quickly. Usually, Saturdays are pretty slow, but today was ridiculously packed with people. And always when there was just one of us at the desk.

But Mom stopped by with some food for my fridge. She rocks. Or maybe she's just worried about my eating habits. Last time she checked my fridge it was filled with nothing but liquor. But that's cause I rarely drink it so it builds up.

Anyway, she brought me food.

And pop.

Best Mom ever.

After that it was movie night with the boyfriend. Or, TV on DVD night with the boyfriend.

Chuck Season One.

Cause it's awesome.

I miss this show, it was my life for months, got all the way to season three but had to wait for season four. Somewhere along the way I got distracted.

Anyway now I'm exhausted, so I'm out.

Songs of the Day:

"Jet Airliner" Steve Miller Band


"Bridge Over Troubled Water" Simon & Garfunkel

I've liked you for a thousand years, a thousand years.

Yes, I continued to have moves like Jagger today.

I'm sure you were all wondering.

I moved from my predecessor's old desk to a desk of my own - for some reason I had two desks even though technically I had no desk at all. Which doesn't make sense, but it does make sense if I explain it correctly.

I wasn't assigned a desk - they just needed a place to put incoming supplies since I'm in charge of it, so it went to the desk it was going to before. Then Mentor cleaned off an area for me in a youth workroom so then I had that desk, but not really as it was never assigned.

Now it's assigned.

Sort of.

Superwoman is still figuring stuff out.

Doesn't matter, I don't really need a desk, I don't know that I'd actually sit at it and use it, I just need a place they can put the supplies that I will know to check so I can grab them and distribute them. It's easier than running up to 3rd floor all the time just to check.

Moving desks was just one of my off-desk hours, the other I spent cleaning up the YA area. Now all the shelves are edged nicely and the displays are full and in the right places with the right statuses...I give it about 12 more hours before it's back to destruction.

And I won't even be there to fix it, that's right! I'm at the home branch tomorrow! All day!! With the new new guy, who I guess is actually an new old guy since he worked there before but that was before my time. I have yet to meet him though I hear he's awesome.

It'll be cool going back and getting to work there again. Plus it'll be nice since it's a little slower there I can actually make progress on my The Help booklist. I've got my titles, now I just have to come up with short summaries to go along with them. Plus a main thing about the original book. Maybe throw in something about the movie. Who knows. I'll send it to Info-Man when I'm done, he's the genius with this stuff so he can fix it if it sucks. Which I don't think it will. I've got plenty to choose from. There's a serious amount of material on civil rights fiction - especially with the southern states.

I'm sorry, nerd moment.

Aside from that I talked to Sketch and we continued planning for Sketch and Edit's Excellent Adventure: Year One. We picked a weekend between our birthdays and a location halfway between our current locations to meet up, jam out, take pictures, troll the streets of whatever the name of the town is that we're staying in. And the countdown has begun. 22 days. Then it's on.

We are talking hotels, she found one that has a log cabin theme. Then there's one with a Victorian theme. Which led us to a discussion on whorehouses. Not sure why. Which led me to explaining the difference between a whorehouse and a whore's house. Cause you gotta have more than one living there to make it a whorehouse, right? Cause otherwise it's just a whore's house.

All the while avoiding the decision about choosing a room - which is what we do best. We're all about avoidance. I told her to pick whatever, I'm fine with it. She didn't like that.

So maybe I'll stick you guys with the choice.

What's the best option for a hotel in the middle of Iowa?

Log cabin theme?

Victorian theme?

Regular room?

See, a normal person would pick a regular room. Cause the others are weird.

And yes, we're weird but not that weird. We wouldn't stay in it cause we prefer it that way, we'd stay in it cause it's weird. And I could take pictures.

And we could make jokes about having cabin fever.

Or about whores in Victorian England.

So I'll send it your way.

What would you choose?

Quotes of the night:
"Do I have to write you something for your birthday?"
"That didn't make sense, but it did make sense."
see, i'm the writer she's the artist - hence sketch and edit - and i write her things and she draws me things. we might take the year off. not because we're lazy, okay, sometimes we're lazy, but mostly because we're busy.

"I'm leaving this conversation before I say something stupid and you make me sleep on the couch of a log-cabin-themed room."
and i tried. multiple times. yet ended up leaving the conversation after i said something stupid, which is kind of the norm for us.

Music Rec for the night:

Moves Like Jagger was stuck in my head ALL DAY! drove me nuts. yet it's still a good song. usually if something drives me nuts all day i end up hating it. hmmm.

"Scott Pilgrim" Plumtree

the song that inspired the book series title which then inspired the movie.
props to low budget 90's music in Canada. awesomeness. i keep rewinding it, at 1:48 it totally looks like Deb from Napoleon Dynamite. guess that's just a part of the awesome 90's fashion statements.
originally i thought she was singing a dozen years, but then when you watch the video she says a thousand. but it still sounds like a dozen.


OUT!

Dashing through the melted snow, in some untied tennis shoes

YES! My shoes are untied!

And I'm AWARE of it!

You don't have to tell me this, I'm aware that they are untied because they've been untied ALL DAY!

Because everytime I tie them they just come loose again anyway! So I've just stopped tying them!

The number of people letting me know about this has become exponential. At first it was amusing, up to 8 people in one hour - but I work public service and am constantly walking all over the floor, stocking the displays and helping people find things - now it's like, I'm aware but I still say,
"ah man, should really work on that." Cause I'm tired of saying
"woops, i'll fix those."

Mom actually called me out on it at the home library a few weeks ago. She showed up and they weren't tied, she said she wasn't surprised cause they were never tied when I was little either. Some things never change. I trip over things whether my shoes are tied or not. So what's the point in tying them if they're just going to become untied 2 minutes later and I have re-ty them again? Plus, that whole double-knot thing? Too obnoxious to get untied when I actually need them to be untied.

Totally bummed, it was my last official day, well night, at the home library. I won't be scheduled there unless either someone calls in sick, or Superwoman decides they need an extra night person. Which was what I was doing before, but now people are hired and all that stuff has been sorted out. Sad day. Not sad that they have new people, that's good, but sad that I won't get to spend my Tuesday nights there, jamming out with Joe Studley. But I'll still visit. Especially once the QofA comes back, which should be some time in January. Plus I gotta stop in to see Space Cadet and talk about all her new technology, I'm so proud. But Glee-Loving Boss can continue to give me crap about flu shots, because I will now see him since I'm in Youth Services and all that jazz.

It's a whole different place there anyway, since Sensei is gone, and QofA is on leave. Plus I never see Space Cadet since we're never scheduled together and I only catch glimpses of Glee-Loving Boss. So it was basically just me and Joe Studley, though I did run into the Awesome Temp when she left and I got there. The new shelver is fantastic. She's also an Aide at the work library so it's cool to get to talk to her about home library stuff. I think she's got it all figured out, they're all caught up so I'm talking to her about projects and stuff I did when there was nothing to shelve.

Otherwise, I was totally productive today. Got all the way through the supply cabinet in the workroom, which sounds like it's a small thing, but it took over an hour and a half to just to sort through and list everything that was on 3 shelves. After that it was lab desk supplies and second floor desk as well. All that's left is all of first floor... basically the supply desk in the backroom, the public service desks, youth services, the basement, and then everywhere where this is a printer or copier or supplies for a printer or copier. But I have tomorrow and Thursday for that.

Aside from that I wrote out my Christmas letters, I just need to send them, then ordered my textbook for class in January and some cool t-shirts plus Second Sister's Christmas present - I'm actually excited about that one. Not that I'm not excited about my other presents, it's just this one has a whole story behind it. I'll post more about it after she's opened it.

Alright, on to the rec's of the night.

Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Day Seven

"Jingle Bells" Glee Cast version

love the changeup on this one.

or you could listen to this version:

"Jingle Bombs" Achmed the Dead Terrorist - Jeff Dunham

"and then my favorites SILENCE! night."
okay, in order to understand that you should probably watch this: Achmed the Dead Terrorist If you haven't already.
and if you like that there's a new one where you meet his son AJ Achmed and AJ I especially like when his feet get messed up and they make Guitar Guy come fix them.

"Walking in a Winter Wonderland" Dean Martin

he's a classic.

alright, out for the night. long day tomorrow. hard to believe it's already the 20th, christmas will soon be upon us. i'm actually glad we're not having our family christmas until the 1st, it's like christmas won't be over right away after the 25th. it's cool to have it extended.

OUT!