and my fingers are bejeweled with diamonds and gold, but that ain't gonna help me now.

Apparently 24 is not old.

That's what I was told today.

I'm aware it's not THAT old.

But for me, it's old...er...than I am now.

Or it is for the next few days at least.

And I'm starting to feel it.

Or maybe that's cause I'm still sick.

With whatever it is you want to call it.

My annual nausea-laden era.

This whole nauseous all the time thing sucks. Isn't three months enough? WHY CAN'T YOU GO AWAY?!

And don't tell me it's morning sickness.

I will kick your butt.

That's what the doctor said like 4 years ago.

And there have been no children.

So HA!

Just more nausea. Every year. Same time.

This is getting old fast.

And with it so am I.

Well, with that and grad school.

The chick got back to me today - after I called her and re-sent the e-mail from two different accounts.

She got them both.

This time.

And got back to me, so that's awesome.

What's not awesome is that now I have to write the paper, that I was so gladly putting off because she had yet to get back to me.

Now it's inevitable.

And I really need to finish it.

I started out tonight with such great intentions, really. Got all my stuff out, made supper, turned on some TV to watch while I ate.

THEN Carter fell asleep on my lap.

And you know, how can I disturb that?

So I kept watching, cause he was cute and cuddly and you know, not biting me.

Then I kept watching some more, but it was good cause now I'm finally caught up on NCIS.

Dude?! That 200th episode? I screamed on so many occasions that I'm surprised my neighbors didn't bust in! Freakin' Kate and Jenny, Fornell just made me laugh, and of course Franks, but Ari?!?! Dude. I wanted Gibbs to punch him.

I do have to question the whole Tony and Kate angle though, I thought they were more siblings and she was into Gibbs. Or that's how it seemed the first season.

I'm really curious how they filmed that as she doesn't look like Kate anymore with the blonde highlights. Medical Examiner in Boston. Or if they filmed it at all, technically that's the same outfit she wore in the plague episode. Did I mention I was a fan? Hmmm...

Then the most recent episode with the return of the elusive Wendy. I'm intrigued.

What was I saying?

Oh right, yes I wanted to be productive and I tried really hard, but then my cat fell asleep on me and it all went to crap.

Sorry.

I'll finish it tomorrow. I'm only 12-6, plus some minor errands.

Saturday is the Barnes and Noble Paperback Buy with the TAB kids, that should be interesting, but other than that I have the whole day so if it's not done by Friday night it'll be done by Saturday night. And posted by at least Sunday as that's a full-fledge day of family fun.

Or at least half-day, I still have no idea what or if we're doing anything for my birthday.

It's not a big deal as I don't really celebrate them, so I'm not gonna plan anything.

Just go with the flow, see if anyone wants to do anything on Monday. Since I have it OFF!

I love City Holidays, they rock.

Okay, songs for the night:

"Somebody to Love" Jefferson Airplane

i'm sorry, is she singing into a plug?

"Trouble" Pink

oh my god, jeremy renner in eye makeup. before he hit it big-time, that's nice.

"Big Girls Don't Cry" Franki Valli and the Four Seasons

i wonder why. especially with those moves and that unnaturally high voice.

What else before I crash and burn...

Today was good, Slim Shady took me out for lunch for my birthday. Jammed out there for a while. Was a good changeup from my usual soup and sandwich.

Worked on some Summer Reading Event stuff after that, plus I'm still working on my Hunger Games Read-Alike, if you have titles send them my way.

Though I have like 40. I'm weeding through and only keeping the good ones.

And the Spunky Old Ladies display is still rocking it on first floor. I'm quite proud of that one actually.

Alright, fading fast. Carter and I are out!

They say she just went crazy, screaming out his name

Let's start off with the interview this morning.

The class assignment is to interview a technical services professional about their cataloging process from start to finish.

A as in 1.

So imagine my surprise when I show up this morning and am led directly to the conference room.

Holy toast.

And the funny thing is that two more people who were going to be there couldn't make it this morning.

So there were supposed to be more.

But it was fantastic! The multiple perspectives were really helpful, cause each person had their own specialty and responsibilities. And I actually got a lot of my questions answered so that was great.

Totally nervous asking actual professionals - as in more than one at once - and me being all para-professional, student and lowly...a little intimidating.

But they were great, and didn't make me feel like a complete idiot.

I think I actually surprised my prof cause I had a bunch of questions about circulation that she didn't have answers to. So she took me to one of the experts, I met a lot of people today, haha. That one and I bonded over weird reference questions. I've had my share.

But I'm actually genuinely interested in their operation because they're freaking right down the street from us!

I mean, I knew they existed, cause they're kind of a big deal, but I did not know that they existed within a 3 block radius of us until this morning.

Yeah.

Totally had to call Superwoman this morning, freaking out cause I had no idea where I was going and didn't want to be late. Walked right passed it. I freakin' Mapquested it and everything.

And I used to park in that parking garage all the time! Freakin' walked passed that building all the time!!

It's giant.

But it's an archive.

So it's supposed to be giant.

Anyway, it was good having more people there because then there was more information and explanation, I really appreciated that. I got passed the intimidation fairly quickly - it wasn't like I was completely unprepared. I had all my questions laid out.

I think I took like three pages worth of notes.

Which is good.

Cause it's like a three page paper.

I just have to put them in order and format it and all that. It'll be gold.

Also stopped by my carpool buddy's office, knew she'd give me crap if I was there and didn't even say hi. She has her own fancy shmancy office and everything, jealous man.

After that I came home and attempted to take a nap.

But I was too wired so I started Downton Abbey instead.

It's highly amusing, I enjoy Maggie Smith very much. She is everything that I thought she would be.

The went into work for two hours and got started on my newest booklist - The Hunger Games read-a-likes, I'm thinking Survivor-ish fiction, Suzanne Collins got her inspiration from flipping channels between Survivor and the war coverage.

I've found a few already, Ship Breaker is one of them, go here: My Life in Closed Captions: don't it always seem to go that you don't know wha... but that's just the start.

Squirt came in today for her volunteer stuff, so I dropped her off after picking up some Subway for us for supper. We jammed at the house and watched Star Trek (movie) - does watching that make anyone else want to start the original series? - and Castle. Duuuude...fantastic episode. Did not see that coming. Love how they mixed in the cast with the 1947 storyline. Super cool.

And that was today.

"Beaches of Cheyenne" Garth Brooks

cheesy slideshow.
someone please tell me why this was stuck in my head all day. out of nowhere.

"Zip-Lock" Lit

and keep it in my pocket, keep it in my pocket...replacements soundtrack, gonna rock.

Now I'm off to crash, full day tomorrow. And after the full day I'm gonna e-mail the people that weren't at the interview this morning and ask some questions about cataloging the general collection, start the paper, then get back to my editing for my friend, woohoo!

Kickstart my heart, give it a start

Not that impressed with the commmercials this year.

Granted I did miss half the game.

Cause yes, I made it to work!

The parking lot was plowed and my awesome brother in law dug out my car. It was the only one dug out this morning, which rocked.

I'll catch the rest of the commercials online tomorrow.

Work flew by pretty fast, though it wasn't all that busy. I sent in a bunch of recommendations, and Info-man set me up for another booklist, we're thinking Hunger Games - so similar storylines, themes, characters, etc. Should be fun and good timing as the movie is coming out soon.

After that is was watching the superbowl with the boyfriend. I went Patriots by 7 and asked my coworkers what they thought, which was interesting because no one seemed to care at all.

Oh well, it was a good game.

And I had fun texting back and forth with a friend as she was cheering for the giants.

Yeah, live it up.

The Voice is actually a pretty good show, I'm stoked. I like Adam Levine and Christina, and Cee-Lo seems cool, Blake Shelton seemed really strict as he hardly voted for anyone. I might have to add that to my DVR. Not that I get time to watch any of those anyway.

Tomorrow I'm headed to the commission for a class assignment - interview a tech services professional.

My prof works there, set me up for who I should talk to and all that. So that rocks, cause she knows what I need to know.

The fatal flaw with that though is that she knows what I need to know, so it's a blessing and a curse, cause it'll be a high pressure paper.

She knows what they'll say and the process there. So I tried mapping out my questions and all that. Little nervous.

Oh well. I'm a good writer.

Or I pretend to be.

I can't be completely awful, after all you're still reading this.

Now I just gotta figure out how to get there.

I'm gonna crash, I'll hit you with some music and sign off.

"Kickstart My Heart" Mötley Crüe

was on the gran tourismo video game for ps2 and i got hooked, hey, we gotta start somewhere. love it. actually liked that commercial, purely for the song.

had to copy and paste the band name, i feel like peanut from jeff dunham, it's not on the keyboard!

"Give Me Three Steps" Lynyrd Skynyrd

not as widely known, but an awesome jam and dance song.

jef-f dun ham....dot com!