Cause I really don't care where you are, I just wanna be there where you are

I know, I know. It's been like a month in a half. My bad.

Lots of little stuff and some big stuff. I'll attempt to go in order.

1. Mayor's Award
:: So I received the Mayor's Award last month and it was a whole production. A bunch of my family, coworkers and bosses were in attendance. It all took place during a City Council meeting. We went in, the mayor made a speech, two of my bosses made speeches and then I said a bunch of stuff. Was a nervous wreck, but I didn't pass out so I'm calling it a victory. After that we took a TON of pictures with the mayor which was pretty cool. If you want to see the pictures or the video - yes, city council meetings are recorded - it's all on Facebook. I was super nervous but it felt like it was over in a flash. Glad I did have something prepared to say in advance, otherwise I probably would have passed out.

2. Library Life
:: Things at work are good. I've been pretty busy lately with TAB stuff. We did a movie day where we watched HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Jurassic Park and Sherlock Holmes - the Robert Downey Jr. version. A bunch of teens showed up which is good. We had Jimmy John's sandwiches and basically jammed out the whole day. Was nice. We also went to Barnes and Noble and picked out a bunch of paperbacks for the library to buy which is always fun. Now I'm in like total Summer Reading mode where basically all I do during my off desk time is plan for upcoming events - submitting proposals, ordering supplies, and all that. Is stressful but usually is worth it in the end.

3. Apocalypse Now
:: Not the only stressful thing at work - I had a patron come up to the desk and she was like "there's a leak in your bathroom." I'm thinking she meant a small leak so I went and got the guard and we meandered over there, opened the door and it was freaking Apocalypse Now baby! Water coming out of the ceiling, down the walls, in the light fixtures...I've never seen the guard run so fast. There was a plumber upstairs who burst a pipe and she ran to get him to shut off the water. For a while there were huge chunks missing out of the ceiling but it's all fixed up now.



Still gross.

4. Trivia Night
:: And speaking of running we had Trivia Night and I was the runner again running our answers to the judges before the clock expired. This year our table's theme was Huskers so I wore a jersey and obnoxious Husker hat. Second Sister went all out, turning herself into a corn cob which was highly entertaining. My brother-in-law was Faux Pelini - cat included. This year we actually did pretty well. Finished in about the middle of the pack but got a higher score than anticipated. I was pretty proud cause I got a bunch of the media stuff. Two of the questions were actually about The Voice - who's the host? Carson Daly - and who won in May of 2014? Josh Kaufman. This year's costume winners were Sound of Music people which just happened to contain my RA from back in college. Though our table voted for the Red Green table. Yes, a Red Green table. Please tell me you've seen that show.

Duct tape?

Possum Lodge?

Ranger Gord?

Keep your stick on the ice?

Think it was mainstream TV in Canada.

Anyway, I didn't know the people that won the actual trivia contest. We're not really there to win, just to have fun.

5. The Archaeologist 
:: Other fun stuff is I've been jamming more with the archaeologist. The one that also has season tickets for hockey. Think I mentioned something about it last post. Went out for some lunches, talked about hockey and life and all that. She's cool, it's good to have someone with similar interests here close by. Plus now I have someone to high five every time we score.

As often as that happens.

That was sarcasm, we average like 1 goal per game...But if we score goals in two consecutive periods we get free chicken from Canes and for the first time in months it actually happened so we totally went to Canes the other night too. Was fun.

6. Library Goddess
:: She's not the only one I've been having lunch with - I actually met up with the Library Goddess for lunch a few weeks ago. Was nice to catch up. So weird going from seeing her every week to like once every 6 months. We got fancy salads and soups. And I swear that woman knows everyone on earth. Knew the owner and his mother. Anywhere I go with her everyone knows her. You can only imagine what the library conferences were like, everyone was chasing her down giving her hugs. Was hilarious. I love that woman, she was so great to me and really got me through the whole library school thing.

I blame my current job completely on her.

And now....she just happens to retire from that particular part of the program? She totally waited until I was done, I'm telling you. Probably not actually, but I'm sticking with it cause it makes me feel special.

7. Birthday
:: Then of course it was my birthday and food day at work - woohoo! The birthday thing meant multiple celebrations cause no one is ever free at the same time...First was Mexican food with the boyfriend's family. They really didn't have to take me out, it was very nice. I even avoided wearing the sombrero and being pied in the face. Don't ask. After that it was Applebees with my parents and Second Sister's family. Her youngest is adorable and wouldn't let me eat. She always had to be on my lap. Made me feel special. I didn't avoid the singing there - in fact I got sang to twice there. Once by the staff and another time by my family. Then third was the Cool Aunt, Cool Cousin, and the Library Goddess - I know, twice in a month, totally weird. Was cool, we went for sushi and they send me home with all the leftovers.

Sushi is awesome at like 3AM. I don't know if you're aware of that or not, but you should try it cause it's just fabulous.

Then fourth was on my actual birthday at Lazlo's. I met up with some of my siblings. Got my awesome rainbow chicken and fries with honey mustard. It was fabulous. Except that was the boyfriend was missing. He was sick for like a week, it was madness.

8. Valentine's Day
:: And speaking of the boyfriend, look at these beautiful flowers he got me for Valentine's Day.



Such a nice guy. The beer in the background was his. I decided that was the guy equivalent of flowers.

9. Hockey
:: But since he was sick I ended up taking the Queen of the Known Universe to one of the hockey games. She loved it. There were lots of fights and we actually won this time which is new for her. In a shootout no less, to the number one team in the league.



Have I mentioned we're last in the league? Yeah, it's not pretty. But we are only losing two players next year due to age and then we have a crapton of draft picks that we traded for.

Yeah, they basically traded a bunch of our good ones once we got out of playoff contention so that we could have draft picks for next year. Which sucks for this season, but probably is smart for next season.

Anyway, it was an excellent game but my favorite player got majorly injured. Or my "infatuation" as the boyfriend likes to call him. It's not like I think he's cute or something I just think he's a really good yet underrated player. Plus he's a teenager so that would be gross. But he got smashed into the wall and got a concussion. So, poor guy. Hopefully he'll be okay to play again soon.

I still haven't emailed them about my sign.

So, I made a sign that says "I wish I only got 2 minutes for hooking"

Here, think I have a picture of it somewhere.

Yeah, here:



But I'm hesitant to take it to the games because they're super picky about what stuff they let people bring in. Like horns and bells and all that.

And I don't want to get like a black mark on my record or something, so I was gonna email them. But I'm pretty sure they'll be like...um, no. So I'm putting it off. Maybe I'll just hang it on my wall. I still have to hang up that signed flag and posters anyway. I'll just make the whole wall behind my couch a hockey collage of sorts. No one will see it anyway, except the boyfriend. My sister. Mother. Eh, whatever. Guess I know what I'm doing tonight.


10. Second Sister got a new puppy.
::I'm sorry I have no transition from hockey to dogs.

But she got a new puppy and it's adorable.

Look.



The first time I saw him he sat on my lap for like an hour. Super cute. Then the next time he was climbing all over my back.





I want one, but Carter would not go for that. Or my apartment complex. Maybe later on.

What else?

11. Oh, yeah, the Voice is back. 
:: I know, you're so excited to hear that. Cause I don't ramble about it at all....For the first season ever I'm having trouble picking out 20 people that I actually like. Maybe I'm growing out of the show or something, but the artists this year are really not all that impressive. I have about 10 that I think are pretty good but that's it. Maybe I'll just do a top ten instead. I guess we do have 1 more night of Blind Auditions left. Tonight. Maybe they're saving the best for last. Let's hope so. I'll post my top whatever list after tonight's episode.


12. Scale of Awesome's for you.
:: Have quite a few lined up. Wow, it really has been a while.


Birdman


Scale of Awesome says 4/10. I know everyone loved it but I did not. The ending just confused me and I'm still frustrated about it. Is he magic or is he insane? I thought it was one way but then the end confused me.

Focus


Scale of Awesome says 6/10. Was okay. Better than Birdman but nothing special.

Whiplash


Scale of Awesome says 5/10. Another out of the box type, I loved the kid in this, he is crazy talented and of course there is JK Simmons who I loved from the Closer but it wasn't all that great either.

St. Vincent


Scale of Awesome says 7/10. See, the preview makes this look like a comedy but there's a lot more serious to it. I actually liked this one a lot.

Grand Budapest Hotel


Scale of Awesome says 7/10. This movie was hilarious. Total Wes Anderson style the whole way through. Loved it.

TMNT


Scale of Awesome says 3/10. This movie was god-awful. Totally killed the whole thing. Makes me want to watch the original again just to fix it all.

American Sniper


Scale of Awesome says 9/10. Best movie I've seen in a long time. Super long but you didn't even notice because it was that good.

Taken 3


Scale of Awesome says 5/10. Not as good as the original.

Way Way Back


Scale of Awesome says 7/10. SAM ROCKWELL!!! I love him. This movie was great. Funny and emotional, I liked it a lot. Plus it had Allison Janney and you can never go wrong with her.

John Wick


Scale of Awesome says 4/10. Kind of like Red but really not funny. Not that it was supposed to be. It was alright, but not fantastic.

Stonehearst Asylum


Scale of Awesome says 3/10. This movie was just plain weird.

Dear White People


Scale of Awesome says 5/10. It started out so good!! But then it turned into not so good.

Zodiac


Scale of Awesome says 7/10. Very good.



Alright, on to the music.

Xtina on Jimmy Fallon


Her Britney is dead on. Dude.

Clint Eastwood


Very catchy, I dig it.

Sugar - Maroon 5


Did it again. Love these guys. My favorites. Cool video.



Alright, will try not to wait so long in between in the future...

If I fall for you I'll never recover, If I fall for you I'll never be the same.

Post #999

Alright, I'm gonna keep this post short because today was super slow and not a lot happened, but also because I'm already starting on tomorrow's post.

It's gonna be epic, so tune in.

It's actually inspired by events of today.

I have a new stalker that always comes to my desk to ask for stuff and then lingers after every transaction.

It's super awkward but apparently he does it to BossLady too so I'm not completely alone.

He keeps asking me for my name every time he comes in and always has to track me down to say hi, even if I'm like youth services or no where near him whatsoever.

And I feel bad avoiding him cause maybe he's just a nice guy, but he seems too nice and it's creeping me out.

Anyway, so I was thinking about that and previous encounters that Slim Shady so lovingly dubbed my "magnet moments" and came up with the topic of tomorrow's 1000th post.

My Top Library Moments Of All Time.

So if you've worked with me at some point tune in, I'm sure you'll be in there cause the list is huge.

To be fair it has been 3 years, well, more than 3 years now, more like 3 and a half cause I started in May of 2010, so there's a lot to cover.

If you're a frequent reader of the blog you've probably heard of a few but this post will include all my top moments so I'm excited.

That's really all I got for today. It was freezing so no one was there all morning. Like the New Guy and I started in the lab and usually there's a line to get on to the computers...we looked at the clock 10AM, no one, 10:10AM, no one, 10:15AM, no one, 10:20AM, one guy.

We thought the doors were broken or something, but apparently not. It's just that damn cold.

And tomorrow's gonna be worse.

Thankfully I don't go in until noon so it'll be a little warmer than in the morning.

They talked about closing the schools tomorrow because of the cold. Probably a good idea, I wouldn't want my kid walking to school in negative temperatures.

Okay, on to the music, then back to tomorrow's post.

More of my favorites from 2013:

I Love It - Icona Pop


Love Somebody - Maroon 5



out.

I can't lie you're on my mind. Stuck inside my head. I wanna feel your heartbeat for me instead.

Okay, so...interesting situation.

Superwoman says, "I read your blog and bought the book for my pregnant daughter. It better be good."

Many questions arise.

Question one: What book is she referring to?

Question two: What if the book isn't good? 

Question three: Should I be paranoid that my boss reads my blog?

So I get this information while working with BossLady - aka my other supervisor - who gave me a funny look and asked if there was something I needed to tell her.

No. I'm not pregnant.

Let's make that abundantly clear.

But it's driving me nuts trying to figure out what book she's referring to. The last book I remember recommending is Silver Linings Playbook. Which was like 4 months ago.

Which, coming from a librarian - oh sorry, a Library Service Associate - is actually quite sad.

I'm sorry, worst LSA ever. I don't read a book a day and I don't blog about the books that I'm not reading daily.

In my defense, I really don't have time to read cause I'm too busy working, taking classes, and driving back and forth to see my boyfriend. Plus I'm surrounded by books all day, it's nice to go home and get away from all that.

But that's part of the "Well, it's not like I go home and do drugs" theory mentioned here.

It's not like I don't read anything at all. I read textbooks for class, online articles for class, more textbooks for class, more online articles for class, and then my editing projects.

However, I do have plans to read after graduation.

Four bookshelves full of plans to read after graduation.

And one of those four is that mammoth one I built myself. Go here.

So, as I skim through previous blog entries from the past month I start thinking...she says I'm gullible. What if she's messing with my head talking about some mystical book that better be good and then it makes me realize that I don't read enough so I should start reading more and then I do start reading more and it makes me an even better LSA.

Cause that is totally something she would do.

Oh well. I'm going to assume it's SLP until directed otherwise. I did love that one and carried it around for weeks before finally giving in and finishing it. I have problems finishing good ones because then they're over and you don't get that sense of mystery back.

Again, library nerd. Who reads on occasion. And has many books on her bookshelf with one page left to read because she stubbornly refuses for it to be over.

Anyway...kind of lost my train of thought....but really all I have to say about today. So on to the music.

I Can't Lie - AudyChannel cover of Maroon 5

As I fall into the darkness it's impossible to express

Yes, I skipped yesterday. But I got home way late from the races and by the time I got home I was half out of it anyway.

Was an excellent weekend. Worked yesterday with some cool people, caught the highlights of the game - see, now that's how we're supposed to play! - and then went to the races with the boyfriend and his bestest friend Steven.

It was fun, though the whole time I kept thinking of Vic Henley, "they're making a left turn!!"

He's a comedian that Sketch and I watched in college and then I actually DVR'd his special last year so I got to watch it again.



This is a different show but it's highly entertaining.

"and Jesus said..."

"white trash flotilla"

After the races we went over to his other friend's house to play video games.

Well, they played video games, I posted random stuff on Facebook.

Went back to my place to sleep and then woke up and went BACK out there today. We got lunch and watched a lot of movies.

He's dogsitting - it's his dog but he's actually in charge of it this weekend - so we had to stick around the house. Though we did go out to eat and stopped at Walmart.

Broke down and bought Now You See Me.

Which means it's really good cause it's the first one I've bought in a long time. Mostly I just get them through the library, this one I actually wanted to keep.

We watched a boatload of movies today, some of which are The Mighty Ducks, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Office Space and I think there were bits and pieces of others.

Along with some SVU and Cold Case.

They need to release that on DVD.

The second time we've watched Mighty Ducks, though neither time have we caught the whole thing. I should just order the series through interlibrary loan so we can watch them all.

Though I hate the quacking thing. Drives me nuts.

But it was a good and relaxing weekend. Which is good and just what I needed.

Tomorrow is back to work so I'm out. Looking forward to Tuesday, my half day and then Wednesday for our first TAB meeting of the year. Woohoo!

Song of the Day:

jammed to this one on the way back

Get Back in My Life - Maroon 5


love this song. no idea why there's an eagle in the corner.


Watching Iron Chef, yay Alex! She's my new favorite. I used to always root for the challenger but now that I know them better I go for the IC's.

Mostly.

Unless Bobby Flay turns into a jerk to his sous-chefs. Which happens frequently.

Giving you all of my heart was a good start but it turns out you want my soul.

Carter killed the bug.

Remember the one from earlier this week that I whiffed when I attempted to kill it and then was horrified about when it would make a second appearance?

Was staring at the wall and suddenly pounced.

My hero.

Though it scared the crap out of me cause I had no idea what was going on.

Good cat.

For once his excess energy paid off.

So he got treats.

Today was fun.

Got to work at the home branch with two of my favorites - the Queen of Awesome and Space Cadet.

Plus a special guest appearance by Superwoman.

And my favorite volunteer who comes in every Tuesday and processes all the holds and new books.

Always gives me the glare when I find more in the tubs and put them on her cart.

"you about done?"

Was very busy the whole day, barely got to sit down all morning - which is good.

I signed up like 10 people for summer reading today alone.

Think I've signed up that many total since it started at the work branch.

But that's because we direct them to the volunteer table.

And of course they all had to sign up when I was alone on the desk trying to manage the constant phone calls and line of people.

But that's the norm.

I think they wait 'til we're alone to strike.

Like, oo, look! That one has been abandoned by the herd. Let's strike her while she's alone.

Anyway, went out for lunch with the Queen of Awesome. Freaky fast subs plus some chips and a pickle for her.

It was seriously the king of all pickles, like a gigantor mega pickle.

Gonna have to get one next time I go in.

After lunch I headed back and got to work with Space Cadet.

I love Space Cadet. We always have so much. She makes fun of me cause I can't cook, I make fun of her cause she doesn't know how to work her iPod, we debate things like who would win in a fight a sea cow or a snow leopard, you just never know what's gonna happen.

Though today I only had like 2 hours with her and like I said we were swamped so there was no debating.

A bit of making fun of, but no debates.

Came home, did some camp paperwork, watched the Swon Brothers again beat out 2 women that should have smoked them but they have all of Oklahoma behind them so they're safe.

No way they're better than Judith, Sarah and Sasha.

Now both Adam and Shakira are out.

It is cool they were all still in it up to this point. Last year Xtina was out way early with her all-pop team.

I was really pulling for Sasha to come through.

Now I'm rooting for Michelle and Danielle but guessing Danielle is gonna win it mostly because her iTunes downloads have been off the charts and they all count as part of the final tally.

After all that did homework, posted it, got on here and now I'm gonna crash cause I'm exhausted.

Song of the day:

Don't Know Nothing - Maroon 5 live version


cause it was stuck in my head all day.

like all day.

and yes i know i posted it earlier this year during Maroon 5 week, but it's still in my head.

you'll just have to deal as the obsession continues.

i'm singing along like there's no tomorrow.

Find this video highly amusing.


So I posted it on Squirt's wall cause she likes accents.

Coolest Aunt, 15 years running.

Just saying.

PS - She got her Learner's permit the other day, makes me feel SUPER old.

Wordie says he's gonna put foam all around his car just in case.

Stay off the sidewalks people.

I told her not to take driving lessons from her uncle.

He gave me my first driving lesson.

Here's how that went.

Ready?

"I just did three illegal things, what were they?"

Speeding.

Changed lanes in an intersection.

Did it without signaling.

I have a lot of weird early driving memories.

Second Sister parked her car in the ditch once - she and Favorite Sister-In-Law had a place in town - and Mom was coming so she wanted to convince Mom it was my doing.

Then there was my brother-in-law - the King of Useless Knowledge - letting me drive a car for the first time.

aka putting it in neutral and letting it roll like 3 feet in a driveway, it was AWESOME!

Hitting a deer with Smo and Shel in the car. With cappuccino. Yeah, those went everywhere. Best part we were like 1 mile from home. Called Dad, "does it run?" "yeah." "drive it home." To be fair it was like 10PM.

Driving over a hill with an ex and the yoyo in the cupholder flipping over and landing in place.

Dirt road in the rain, slid off that one with same ex and friend Jess.

Getting pickup stuck in mud at brother's place whilst attempting to go swim in his pond with friends.

...

I'm sensing a trend.

...

Perhaps these incidents were not my fault, there's always people involved.

Been in 3 accidents - none of them my fault.

Once on the farm, got hit by some dude my age who had - the month previously - put the same car in the ditch (in a giant snowpile) about half a block from where he hit me. My brother pulled him out. He suggested we not call the cops, because apparently, not only was he just in that ditch a month before but he also hit his friend's car not long before that and it was a cheap fix. After convincing him that I was calling my parents - well, my brother - he decided then was a good time to tell me his life story. Apparently he had a kid. Guess how he found out. "Merry Christmas, I'm pregnant."

That text came after they had broken up.

Meanwhile in my head I'm screaming, "where the hell is my brother?" If he were at home he could have been there in 30 seconds but instead he was in town with my mother so it took 10 minutes.

While that may sound like a super fast response time, it really doesn't feel that way when you're hearing someone's life story.

Cops showed up, gave him a ticket and he paid for the damage.

Accident number 2 was here, way north on 27th, got rear-ended by a guy named Kory.

Yes, he spelled it with a K.

Think his number is still in my phone.

Anyway, it was barely a scratch, more of a shock factor than anything else. I told him I'd have my brother-in-law look at it and then contact him.

3rd one Mom was driving. We were driving through Oldest Sister's neighborhood on ice, dude coming in opposite direction was going too fast, couldn't slow down, ended up spinning and hitting us.

Got to call the non-emergency number.

Again.

Good thing I work where I work.

Otherwise it would have been 911, emergency.

You learn so much from working at a library filled with crazies, drunks, and other festive personalities.

He was like half a block from his house, sad day for him.

Mom's car sat in my parking lot for a while 'til it could get checked out.

It snowed and someone made a smiley face on the hood.

Oh the joys.

But none of them were my fault. Much more cautious now with the new car.

I used to speed, a lot. Now I don't really see the point - not that I did then, it was just something you did when you're a teenager and stupid.

But now I have to watch out for freakin' cops who hide in alleys, then walk in the middle of the road pointing their speed gun at you and then point to a sidestreet you're supposed to turn off on.

Or the joy and excitement that was my birthday last year when I got pulled over in Second Sister's driveway. "Happy birthday, here's a warning." That was an adventure. But the speeding wasn't intentional, thought it was 35 when it was in fact 25.

No, I actually don't speed now cause I have to pay for the insurance, ha! And as much fun as Stop Class is - been there twice - I can really do without another 8 hours of "don't speed" "wear your seatbelt" "don't drink and drive" "don't text and drive" etc. etc. Although, the more recent one was more like watch these amusing video clips because the cop who's supposed to be here is sick.

How did I get here?

Oh right, Squirt and her driving capabilities.

They need to take her out to the farm and let her loose.

I never took Driver's Ed. I actually got my license when I was 14, or was it 13?

Cause you get your school permit at like 15 but then I could get it when I was 14 cause I lived more than 10 miles away from school and then instead it was 13 cause I lived on a farm too or some weird law thing.

I don't remember.

I was supposed to do like 50 hours of supervised driving but I'm pretty sure the parentals just signed at the bottom and called it good.

Speaking of signing, apparently the Library Goddess has perfected my signature. Good thing she knows how to spell my name. Ask her about that later.

And as for the parentals, today is Mom's birthday. I called, yay me.

And also Abby Cadabra's birthday. I called, yay me.

I asked her if she wanted me to sing and she replied, with absolutely no excitement whatsoever, "sure". No faith in my birthday-singing skills. So I sang anyway.

It was amusing, we - as siblings - banter frequently.

So this morning I get this text from my brother saying:
"Don't forget today is Mom's birthday. As I have already given her the continuous gift of having a child with her birthday no call is necessary. You less thoughtful children must call."
To which Oldest Sister replied:
"U r taller than ur hair." (We give him crap cause he shaved his head in college and the hair never grew back.)
And then Second Sister added:
"I don't claim to be the most thoughtful offspring, that much is certain. Just the best looking."

I WAS WORKING so being the responsible adult that I am, refused to participate. (actually I didn't get them until lunch and by then we had moved on to talk of burning farm ground so we can start from scratch. on purpose don't worry.)

Apparently the only skills needed to participate are being able to beat stuff with a stick with a mud flap on it.

And there must be beer on hand.

No, we're not redneck whatsoever.

I missed out on last time so I'm hoping to make it this year. Last year it was just the boys. Driving 4 wheelers around the fires.

Taking a break from their day jobs.

No, we're not idiots whatsoever either.

but that's enough family hijinks...

is it hijinks or hyjinks?

either way i'm getting those annoying red edit lines.

Got to see 2 of my favorite home branch friends today as they made an appearance at the work branch. Does that mean I can call them my "homies" cause they're from the home branch? or would that make them the "home branchies"?

I like "homies" better. Congratulations.

Didn't get to talk to Joe Studley for very long but it was good to catch up with Sensei as I haven't seen her since working at the home branch on a regular basis, cause she used to come in and check stuff out even after she retired. So that's what like November of last year, not like this past one though, the year before that.

Really?

Has it been that long?

Geez.

But I guess yeah, cause I started May 2010.

Alright, on to the music before I find something else to ramble about.

Up to the last of Maroon 5's greatest hits, so take like 11?

Heard the first one live, would have loved if they sang Doin' Dirt, that's one of my favorites.

Love Somebody


amateur music video, but cute.

Tickets


catchy.

Doin' Dirt


love it.

Beautiful Goodbye


fitting end.

Aaannd I just realized that I don't work tomorrow.

So I don't have to go to bed immediately, whoa.

All day yesterday it felt like Thursday. Now that it is Thursday I don't feel like I'm off tomorrow.

Weirdness.

Oh well, taking advantage. Will sleep in, do some homework, watch some movies and hopefully see the boyfriend at some point.


Oh, and Carter and I made snowpeople.






The one on the left is Norman. Haven't decided on a name for his friend yet.

but i just couldn't break your heart, like you did mine yesterday.

So yesterday sucked.

But today was alright.

I was so zonked that I fell asleep for the past like 3 hours.

Which is nice cause I fell asleep watching HGTV so I rewound like all the way back and now I'm watching all the demo programs and get to see them all without commercials.

Yay Property Brothers.

So, today.

What happened?

I'm thinking.

Oh right, so yeah it was alright. Early lunch and then headed off to one of the branches for an hour to cover for an all staff meeting. It was myself, Girlscout, one of the women that originally interviewed and hired me, and then a branch manager from a completely different library.

Between the four of us we were able to run the place as one fully functional person.

Which was impressive with next to no training about locations of materials and all that.

I told the manager she was in charge cause her library is a mirror image of the one we were in.

Which actually probably made it harder for her...but she and I took the front desk. My interviewer worked reference and Girlscout floated. We made it an hour without setting off the fire alarms or calling the cops so I'm calling it a victory.

I was a bit nervous. I've been in that building less than 10 times so to run the place was big. Yeah, not even  10 times it was like once for a TAB event within the past few months, before that it was dropping off barrels and picking them up for the Food Drive, so let's see that would be 4 times cause I did it 2 years. And then I stopped by once to take pictures of the food drive sculptures so that's what, 7 including today?

Not bad. Not bad.

But it was amusing cause we were like, "we made it 20 minutes!" "we made it half an hour!" "we made it 45 minutes!" and then staff starts piling out of the conference room after an hour so did a celebration dance and then headed back to the work branch for the rest of the day.

Yeehaw.

I'm trying to think of other stuff from today.

Oh, so remember those Reader's Theatre videos? We did one called "The Killer" by Tom Hinshelwood and his dad commented on our video on Facebook thanking us for including his son's book.

So that was a shock of sorts.

It did go really well, I'm proud of them and look forward to doing it again.

Meeting coming up on Tuesday to talk more about it, but mostly plan out our Summer Reading Events for the teen program. Gotta get those all written up and sent in by the 21st to be approved and entered in the schedule booklet.

No pressure.

But I have a pretty good idea of which events we'll be doing and how to write them up.

And that was my day.

Aside from coming home, laying on the couch and falling asleep to HGTV.

I haven't been getting as much sleep as I should. Proven by the fact that I need to be up and across town by 7:30 tomorrow morning and it's already passed midnight and I'm still up.

So I'm gonna crash. That way I can be semi-conscious for tomorrow's meeting with the Library Goddess. Thank God for coffee shops. Working on our last newsletter, sad day.

This whole GA thing has just totally flown by. Can't believe I'm gonna be completely done with the program in December. All A's so far, like a 3.96 GPA - for a Master's program that's not bad. Only 4 more classes after this semester, practicum included.

Okay, sleep. Right. Now. K.

Music and I'm out.

Maroon 5's greatest hits, take 10?

Officially on to their latest album now. The last two are in my top 10.

Daylight


interesting concept for video, playing for change. heard this one live, awesomeness.

Lucky Strike


heard this one live as well, loved it.

and just cause i like it...


original duo are the best.

The Man Who Never Lied


love this one.


I'm actually proud of how the concert pics turned out. Scroll down a few and you'll see them.


and i'm gone.

but even the sun sets in paradise.

This was my day.



While it may not have been caused by a breakup, that was pretty much my headspace, all day.

So miserable all I wanted to do was go cry in a corner.

But see, last time I did that I ended up in Superwoman's office and she sent me home.

Which only made things worse.

So, I said screw it, pretended all was okay - like normal - put on a happy face and did my freakin' job.

See, Slim Shady and I had this pact.

And this was, of course, before she and Fearless Leader ditched me.

That if we turned into bitter, angry, complaining about everything employees that we would either shoot each other or quit.

I'm still debating.

I'm just tired of the drama.

Life would be so much easier on the farm.

And it wasn't just today, it's built up to this point. Today was just the breaking point.

See, I'm not good with change.

Yeah, big surprise, I'm sure.

But so many things are changing it's making my head spin.

And I know change is important and if we don't evolve then the library dies, but the routine is what makes me good at my job, it's the reason I love it.

Loved it.

It was actually amusing, I went to dinner with the boyfriend and all I kept repeating was "I'll love my job... tomorrow."

Because really, at this moment in time, I cannot think of a single thing keeping me there, aside from TAB.

And while that may sound dramatic, it's been a long time coming.

Multiplied exponentially by the fact that I DON'T HAVE ANYONE THERE ANYMORE.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I love my coworkers, they're great. Queen of the Known Universe especially, but it's not the same as having Slim Shady and Fearless Leader there.

But, like I said, tomorrow. I'll act like nothing's wrong, I'll find a reason to love my job again and everything will be just fine.

Unless something changes with TAB.

That is where I draw the line.

I care about those kids, I will advocate for them until the day I die, but if that changes then I'm done.

Speaking of TAB, the only good thing that happened during the workday was that our awesome webmaster - and also proud father of a TAB member - uploaded the Reader's Theater videos to our website, Facebook page and YouTube channel. I'll post the link on Facebook. I'm proud of those kids, they were excellent.

And then tonight after work was better. The boyfriend fixes all, as always. Went out to eat and then watched Enemy of the State.


I love Gene Hackman. Scale of Awesome puts it at around 8/10, was totally on the edge of my seat.

Am, it's running in the background now. He sent it home with me cause we didn't get all the way through it before he had to leave for work.

Jack Black, Seth Green and Jason Lee is serious roles, I'm in shock.

So far, so good. I'll let you know after I finish if that holds up.

Geez, already an hour in. I've drafted and re-drafted this post so many times I've lost count.

Had it playing on mute in the background 'til I'm done then I'll skip to where we left off.

Doesn't really matter, I'll probably delete it tomorrow anyway.

Just like all my other ranting ones.

So, I'll move on to the music. Aside from Miranda's which I sang all afternoon in my head, btw.

Where was I....Maroon 5's greatest hits, take 8? I think.

One more from Hands All Over and then moving on to their last album Overexposed.

Moves Like Jagger



One More Night



Payphone


saw all three of these live, they were fantastic. originally not a huge fan of payphone like i was immediately of the former two, however it's grown on me, especially cause the boyfriend sings it all the time.


How is it that Moms know when you're gonna have a bad day?

Came home to a box full of chocolate in the mail.

Awesome.

out!

your whisper so clear, the world disappears...

Have you ever had one of those days that you hear something so unexpected that it just completely and totally throws off your entire day?

It didn't help that it was in the middle of the night.

And then I woke up thinking I dreamed it, cause it's one of those way-out-there-never-see-it-coming kind of things.

And then I checked my phone and realized it wasn't a dream.

So then today was just all wonky.

Plus I woke up early to dig out my car, ended up spinning sideways out of the parking space and drove right out, apparently parking diagonal actually works.

Even when it wasn't on purpose.

So I didn't get as much sleep as I should have which made said day even more wonky.

It was just...unexpected.

I have no other words.

But you know, it's a good thing.

My problem is that I'm protective right, to a fault really.

Sketch doesn't even tell me about her boyfriends, let alone introduce us.

Anyway, I'm just protective and I want the best for her, but I'm staying out of it.

Cause she's grown and all that.

And she's happy.

Giddy really.

So we'll see where this goes.

Anyway, aside from all that wonky stuff, I finished Lie To Me.

What the crap?! Seriously.

Clearly they were expecting to do another season because there was no end to that ending.

And at the same time, no real cliffhanger either.

Just a general, unsolved-ness.

If that makes sense.

But with how crappy that last season was there was no way it was getting renewed.

Which didn't help my wonky day.

So now I'm watching Red in search of some sense of normalcy.

Since I fell asleep watching it every night for like a month.

Or two.

Okay it was three.

But anyway, am in need of some normal routine stuff, and since I could think of no other solutions and I had a craving to watch it ever since I saw the preview for the sequel...tada!

What else from today?

Sent our webmaster the Reader's Theater videos and photos. He's gonna upload them to the website, huzzah!

I'm really proud of how they turned out. Especially the pigeon one.

Long story.

But they were great and we shall do it again next year.

And Teen Tech Week is coming along. I had to go out and buy the freakin' candy in the snow yesterday and made it in time for delivery this morning.

That was another huzzah moment.

So my job, for now, is done. End of the week they'll send all the forms back and then Cabin Fever will draw the winner for the iTunes card and we'll be good until next year.

When someone else can take charge and come up with something better.

Even though the "teen experience" crew said it was great.

Ummmm....did some homework. Wrote up the overview of that interview, now gotta wait for other classmates to write up theirs so we can do a discussion board.

Oh yeah, speaking of class, totally crashed one today.

In Special Libraries you know, and today they stopped by the work branch to visit one of our in-house special libraries. It was amusing, they all walked in and went, you work here? It was amusing.

So I crashed their class for my 15 minute break.

Asked my question and ran.

Professor found it humorous.

Actually encouraged my crashing of class.

So does that take away the "crash" when the professor is okay with it?

Cause I feel like the whole point of crashing something is to show up unannounced in like an unapproved manner.

You know, cause like people crash weddings they're not invited to. But I was in fact, invited, so perhaps crashed isn't the best word.

Even though, during my introduction, the professor said I was crashing class.

So she not only approved of said crashing, but she also called it crashing so then I think that re-confirms that it was a crash afterall.

Cause she said it.

I'm going around in circles and none of that made sense whatsoever so skip it please.

I told you my day was wonky, this was my thought process ALL DAY.

"Open the pig!"

Sorry, Red.

"Poop to that" has become a common phrase between myself and Oldest Sister.

Okay so that's wonkyness, the class crashing, more wonkyness, Lie to Me, teen tech week, oh I made spaghetti for supper and then did the homework and now I'm watching Red. Oh and then the car thing this morning and yep, think that's all.

So now I'm gonna go back to watching Red, almost an hour in already and quoting the whole thing while it plays in the background.

Did I mention it was practically every night for three months?

Almost as bad as the Mummy or Returns except not quite to those extremes.

Which goes to show why my mother so is tired of those movies.

"This again?!"

Alright, on to the music and then I'm out.

Before midnight, holy Frank Moses man.

Maroon 5's greatest hits, take 7

How


wish i could see this one live. another one of my top 5, and totally underrated.

Get Back in My Life


love this one, great dance mix.

Runaway


interesting that this one has a video and the others don't. isn't exactly their most popular. not that i don't love it. cause if i didn't i wouldn't post it.

"Listen Plastic-Man."

alright, off to bed. pre-midnight post. holy crap tag in use.

i'm tired of proving you right by doing everything so wrong...

Holy snowstorm, Batman.

Didn't see this one coming.

Thought it'd be a couple inches, it's still freakin' snowing.

Libraries closed early today apparently - I wasn't there, but it's the second time this year.

But I'm sure we'll be open tomorrow.

The Powers That Be are stubborn like that.

So I'll have to get up like an hour earlier than normal cause I know I'm gonna get stuck.

Even with my brand new shovel and ice melt.

I did leave and go to Target at one point today. I made it there and back fine, it was parking in my parking lot that was a problem cause it was all drifted. So tomorrow's really gonna suck.

But I needed to get the damn candy bars and iTunes card for Teen Tech Week.

Went with those hershey's, mr. goodbar, etc etc mixes. krackle? Is that another one in there? I can't remember and they're in the car so I ain't going to check.

Anyway, nothing major, not sure how many teens are actually going to participate anyway, but I'm hoping more than two. I'll call that a victory if I get more than two.

Which reminds me that I need to send out a reminder email tomorrow when I go in.

What else did I do today?

Oh yeah, so there was supposed to be that practicum meeting with the Library Goddess at the grad school but she cancelled it so we're just gonna do it during our usual meet on Thursday along with our last newsletter.

Sad day, this went by far too fast.

I remember actually back when it all started, I had first entered the program and we were putting together my schedule and she's like okay "so you'll take three then and then and what? I only get your for two semesters?!" Cause you have to be a fulltime student taking 9 credits to be a graduate assistant.

And then I went to the Volunteer Appreciate Banquet and met her first graduate assistant who just happens to be one of our libraries' branch managers now and she was like, "oh yeah, I got 2-4 hours of sleep per night but you can handle it for a couple of months." "I'm actually doing it for two semesters." "oh....well good luck."

Ha, well it turned out okay. I was really expecting it to be more, like constant work and stuff but she's really good with scheduling and working around my job job, and she has another GA for the UNO program as well who's physically there. Works across from her and the Cool Aunt.

I'm gonna miss it, along with the program.

But again, don't take that as a statement about going on for a Doctorate. Our family can live with one doctor.

So anyway, the meeting got cancelled so I went back to sleep.

Woke up in the afternoon to type of the transcript of yesterday's interview and sent that in. Tomorrow I'll write the overview and comment on others' posts.

Meanwhile I finished Murder in Suburbia. Season Two.

I requested the first but they sent me the second.

Which I didn't notice until further inspection. The case says series 2 but the sticker on top season 1.

But I enjoyed it, gotta love British humor and Ash and Scribbs are an amusing duo.

"What are my rules about fun?"
"Not here, not now?"

So now I'll re-request it.

Now it's on to Lie To Me.

Carter's sitting in his chair staring at me. Usually he's konked out next to me by now but I think he's tired of me cause I was home all day. So now I just get the glare.

It is his place, I just stay here.

Alright, I'm off to bed. Early morning tomorrow cause of the snow.

More of Maroon 5's greatest hits, take 6.


Don't Know Nothing


catchy give it a chance.

Never Gonna Leave This Bed



I Can't Lie


another catchy one, one of those songs that brightens your day, quickens your steps and makes you wanna dance. gotta listen to it to get what i'm talking about.

out.

Don't let the pigeon drive the bus.

So, today was far more successful than I thought it would be.

Seriously.

Woke up at 8, by accident.

Forgot to turn off that alarm.

So went back to sleep until 10.

Got up in time to prep for interview - gotta love phone interviews in your pajamas.

Diversity in Libraries, interviewing diverse patrons.

Last week it was diverse librarians.

So now I've talked to a librarian from Seattle and a patron from Columbia.

Missouri.

Columbia, Missouri.

Been an interesting experience so far, I'm digging it, AND I met that professor yesterday at that meeting.

Which I neglected to mention, I think.

I neglected to mention a lot, including a fabulous map drawn by the Library Goddess so I had to go back and add stuff.

I was half asleep by the time it was posted, but that's the joy of being the post-er.

You can go back and re-post.

Anyway, so yes, met the professor, interestingly enough - and I'm pretty sure she thought I was a total nut at first because she was talking and I like was walking past her and I froze.

Like froze.

And did like one of those slow motion turns so she stopped talking.

And I was like, "I recognize your voice."

And she was like, "okay?"

So I asked what classes she was teaching and Diversity was one of them and I was like "YES!" cause she records her lectures. But it's just her voice and a powerpoint, she's not in the picture.

I was quite proud of myself.

I mean, after she stopped looking at me like I was some stalker nut.

She was great, as were the rest of the crew.

It is a really cool program for them to be able to do this, huzzah for Distance Education.

Except everyone is making me go over there and walk for graduation.

They could mail me the diploma but my friends and family will have none of that.

Ugh.

Anyway, so there was that and I added the map and the Digital Beef so I think we're good about yesterday.

So, okay, yes, phone interview in the morning. Had to record it so I can write up the transcript later. Could have done that tonight but didn't want to be THAT productive, people would start to worry.

After that I ate lunch, made soup and didn't burn the apartment down, victory, then headed to work for Reader's Theater.

Okay, I'll admit, while I do direct and write half the scripts for camp, Reader's Theater is completely different so I was a little freaked.

But it turned out awesome.

Seriously, it was great.

Basically in Reader's Theater you want to focus on stories with a lot of dialogue because the actors are literally reading from the script so I had them go throughout the library and pick items they'd like to act out.

I was expecting things like The Hunger Games but actually we ended up with a couple of picture books and a spy thriller.

Don't Let the Pigeons Drive the Bus came first. It was actually really amusing - and they're rather creative - so like we made arranged chairs to make it look like a bus. And you know half of that book is a child listening and screaming "no!" at the pigeon so the passengers did a lot of screaming.

Actually our first take they just shook their heads and sat in silence.

That was funny as well.

Anyway, if you've read the book you know, but at one point the pigeon totally spazzes out and screams "Let me drive the bus!" and like throws a tantrum. Our pigeon decided that instead of throwing a tantrum she'd throw a box instead.

At me.

So I ducked and spun and kept filming, it was awesome.

And then of course the pigeon gets left in the end - oh sorry, spoiler alert - and the bus leaves so I kept the camera in place and they're all in office chairs so they all roll off in line while the pigeon looks all rejected and then names the book and says it's available in our library system.

So that was book one.

Second came something about a green sock, like Lizette's Green Sock I think, by a Catherina V-something. I could Google it but I'm too lazy. Maybe I'll upload the videos or send you a link once they're edited.

Anyway, we made green socks out of paper bags....that we colored with green markers. And then there was a pool and a squirt bottle and it had a rabbit and a cat and a mouse and a fish and a mom.

Long story short - too late - it took us like 2 tries but we got it.

Final was called The Killer or The Killing or something of the sort - it was a spy thriller so one of our boys read the back cover while the other boy rolled around on the floor avoiding the bullets that our hitwoman was spraying at him and the other girls ran across the stage holding signs that said "boom" "bang" "scream" and the sort.

Melodrama.

Reminded me of high school.

Oh god, what was that called again?

Pecos Bill and Slue-Foot Sue Meet the Dirty Dan Gang.

That's right.

I was Clever Coyote.

I got to dance on stage.

And had a secret handshake with Slue-Foot Sue.

One of my favorite plays, but the boyfriend's LEAST favorite.

He hated that thing.

Seriously hated it.

Think Oklahoma was his favorite.

He played the skeevy traveling salesman.

And he sang.

He used to be so little and short and cute.

or maybe it was Oh, What a Tangled Web that was his favorite. I was student manager for that one, it was sophomore year and my first high school play. But I knew all the words and would fill in for people during rehearsals, even being married to myself a few times.

But that was One Act.

Where was I before this tangent?

Oh right, so he was rolling all over and she was holding the cardboard in the corner and then there was signage with narration and then he went around and shot all of us and I fell over, camera in hand.

All-in-all I'd say it went rather well.

Cause they demanded we do it again.

I'm in.

Though this time it will probably involve Cod Sparkles and his library adventures.

Don't ask.

I seriously was freaked, but I was really impressed with how it all turned out.

So, now I have all the videos, will go over them and send them on to our webmaster who can post them to the library's website.

Huzzah!

After that I stayed and set up for Teen Tech Week. Which starts tomorrow.

Well, today, as it is in fact Sunday already, though this post won't say it is. 11:50 PM all the way.

Anyway, that goes through the rest of the week.

I have a feeling that that will fail miserably, but I had that feeling about today's activity as well and it turned out okay.

and Teen Tech Week made the paper.

Like the actual legitimate newspaper.

My pet project.

So maybe people will show up and participate.

After that joy I came home and did homework.

Originally was going to go to the derby but apparently it's supposed to snow so people were bailing.

It's cool, first bout of the season there will be more.

Think I'm going to the one end of March anyway, gotta love it.

Anyway, I wrote a paper and posted it, then watched Skyfall and now I'm on to Murder in Suburbia.

Gotta love British murder mystery series.

I already had Lightman's accent in my head, Ash and Scribbs are just making it worse.

"It's like graveyard jenga down here."

Flashbacks, haven't said that in a while. Gotta love Bonekickers.

Actually broke down and bought that one.

Indiana Jones meets CSI.

There's a lot of posts on here about that show. Think "graveyard jenga" actually has its own tag.

Yep, awesomeness.

And that was my day.

So on to the music.

Maroon 5's greatest hits, take 5?

So, found this video of both Misery and Give a Little More - both performed live@home...in France.



Handy.

But if you'd like to see them separately go here...

Give a Little More


Aaannd...

Misery


another one of my top 5, but you should really check out this next version too...



this guy is great, he's the one that did the Pitch Perfect Starships video, which I posted a while ago here

this is probably my third favorite version, my second of course being Glee's cover which I post after every major assignment just because I want to throw the papers up in the air like they do.

3rd and final:

Stutter


on a cruise ship.

i will never ever take one. ever. cause you're like stranded in the middle of no where and the thing's either gonna sink or tip over.

and even if it doesn't i'll be paranoid that it's going to sink or tip over at any time and that will ruin said cruise.

see, fishing boats and small stuff i can take, cause you can still see the shore. and you aren't surrounded by crazy drunken people or spastic children.

unless you're out there with my family.

kidding.

and it's not like i don't like water or swimming, it's just i've never heard a single good thing about a cruise. cause you got the Titanic, you've got the Andrea Doria whatever that ran into that other Stockholm one, and then the more recent ones that tipped over or lost power, and then at the home branch the Glee-Loving Boss was always telling horror stories how the boat was sideways cause of the wind and waves....

never ever ever.

Back at your door.

Okay, so it's official.

I need new wiper blades.

Can barely see anything in a storm.

Woops.

Oh the joys of today.

Actually got to see a lot of my library friends - the authentically amazing KB at work, plus I talked to Sensei when she called in, and then the Library Goddess and new library friends at the meeting after work.

Work is mostly prep for tomorrow's activity - Reader's Theater.

Pick books and the teens improv act.

We'll film it and put it up on the website for recruitment purposes.

Super nervous, we'll see how it goes.

Immediately after or before I need to set up the stuff for Teen Tech Week.

Only worked 9-2 today, that makes twice this week and I got off early yesterday to go to prison - also for class - so I'm feeling totally out of whack.

Anyway, headed up to the grad school around 3, got back at 10.

Met up with some Missouri faculty to hear them talk about the program to some undergrads and then jammed out with some fun classmates afterward.

We didn't eat pizza or drink.

Cause that's against the rules.

So yeah, we did not do that.

So here is not a map drawn by the Library Goddess showing me where to get said pizza.

Some interesting discussion about class technology quirks.

We decided to start our own Roller Derby team called "Digital Beef."

Our uniforms would be black and white spots with a QR code on the back.

Don't think I've laughed that hard in months.

It's interesting, one of the questions to those already in the program was what's been your favorite moment so far and I can't pinpoint a specific moment, for me it was more of the relationships I've built.


and then NLA.

I guess that's a moment.

But you don't know how many librarians you know until you go to a library conference.

And that's the truth.

Now I'm back at the apartment with my big fat cat, going over questions for tomorrow's interview.

Yay diversity!

And that was my day.

May seem boring to you, but it was fun to me.

So, on to the music then.

Maroon 5's greatest hits, take four.

2 of my top 5 in this one alone - not stacking the deck, just working through the albums.


Won't Go Home Without You


love it, even sounds good without the technology behind him

Can't Stop

jam session

Back At Your Door

all time favorite.



so interview for class tomorrow then reader's theater and then ROLLER DERBY!! rivalry match man, it's on.

cause i don't believe in you anymore, anymore.

It's not often I wake up in the morning and think, "I wonder if this is appropriate prison-wear."

Today was rather fun. Got to tell people I had to go to jail after work.

The patrons did double-takes whilst my coworkers knew it was for class.

The morning flew by. Counted money, checked in magazines, shelved said magazines, updated TAB website, sent some emails, finalized stuff for Teen Tech Week - press release sent out through the mayor's office, woohoo! Went to lunch, checked in the holds and I was done.

Off to prison to see my friends.

Library friends that is.

Going through security wasn't all that bad.

They took our ID's we got stamped with invisible ink - how do you know when those run out of ink? - and then had to walk through a metal detector before getting patted down in the women's restroom.

Been to the women's prison twice - once in high school and once in college, don't look at me like that they were both for a class - and it was the same routine.

Had to ditch my rings, watch, and keys after leaving my cell, ipod and leather jacket in the car.

Felt incapacitated.

Twitchy even.

Kept reaching for my watch and phone.

The tour was fun, very unique locale.

But it was mostly fun because of the people.

I enjoy my library friends, they're quite funny.

As was the tour guide.

We asked about collections and if there were censorship issues.

He said they don't order the Anarchist's Cookbook but they do own the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy.

We laughed, to which he responded, "hey, inmates have the right to read bad fiction too!"

The library itself is basically divided down the middle. One part is the legal library with typewriters, law books and Lexis Nexis databases. The other part is the recreational part filled with the fiction and nonfiction.

Best part?

I mean, aside from 50SoG, his organizational system.

Guess what Twilight is classified as!?!

Horror. 

Not kidding. It is shelved in the horror section.

The entire Twilight series along with anything by V.C. Andrews and the rest of them paranormal romance writers.

It's all horror.

Because apparently, in prison, if you label something as "romance" it doesn't circulate.

However, since it's paranormal it can be classified as horror.

Which I think is awesome. 

But that's just us being goofy.

After the tour the grads went for coffee with the prof to discuss our final project.

Only the grads have to do them whilst the undergrads get to watch and evaluate us.

No pressure.

Anyway, there was a grate on the floor that Jennifer was standing on.

Me: Every girl needs a Marilyn moment. 
Amy: Yeah, but when it happens to you it's not sexy. 

I like our crew.

You can always tell the grads from the undergrads cause we sit in the back.

And we're snarkier.

I feel bad for half my crew though cause they're taking comps next week.

Thankfully I still have a few more months before that fresh hell rains down upon me.

Think about writing a thesis.

Now times that by four.

And write them in a week.

That's comps.

Anyway, so now I'm home. After stopping at Arby's for supper cause fast food roast beef sounded good.

Carter is already decked out next to me taking up half the couch and it's only 11:30.

Either I stay up too late or he goes to bed too early.

Or maybe a combination of the both.

Doesn't really matter, the second I post this and put the laptop down he'll wake up just to sleep on my stomach.

It would be adorable if it wasn't doing serious damage to my back.

Fat cat.

On to the music.

Let's see, Maroon 5's greatest hits, take three.

We're on to their second album now so that leads us to.......

Makes Me Wonder



Little Of Your Time


Wake Up Call


is that the dude from law and order?





Okay, it's official. I hate season three of Lie to Me.

Everyone's all mad at each other and the storylines suck.

No wonder it got cancelled.

Let there be Lightman.

When you answer the door, pick up the phone you won't find me 'cause I'm not coming home.

9-6 at the work branch.

Not much to say about the day.

Actually can't think of a single thing, which can be both good or bad.

It's good because that means nothing bad happened that stuck with me, but it's bad because it means I'm totally boring.

I'm literally scrambling for something about today.

A bunch of people heard a book advertised on the radio and flocked to the library for a copy but it's out of print and we don't have it. ILL all the way.

Seriously 4 people.

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii had a BBQ beef sandwich for lunch. And sour cream and onion chips. And a mountain dew.

I get the latter 2 every day basically, but switch up the sandwich part. Sometimes it's a polish dog. Sometimes it's soup. Sometimes it's the special.

But they know me so they reach for the chips and pop before I start talking.

Um, I updated the TAB website...

and oh yeah. Planned a Week Long Event.

Kicked ass at it too.

Teen Tech Week - posters are made, approved and sent along with both the tally and raffle sheets. Info is sent to our webmaster who's put it online. All that's left now is to buy the candy and then send that through delivery later this week.

Oh and send an staff-wide email.

I hate those.

With a passion.

Takes me hours to write 2 sentences cause I overanalyze everything.

Blah.

After work came home, did some laundry, immersed myself in homework for a couple of hours and now I'm vedging out watching Lie To Me season two finale. Carter at my side.

Originally I was supposed to meet up with the Library Goddess tomorrow morning for coffee but she's swamped so that's on to next week.

And that was my day.

I know, I'm boring. I'm sorry.

I'll be better tomorrow, but for now enjoy these.

More Useless Information
-Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet.

-Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

-The founder of Victoria's Secret was a man named Roy Raymond.

-Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco - he was also the Hong Kong cha cha dance champion in 1958.

-Ancient Romans always entered the home of a friend on their right foot. The left side of the body was thought to portend evil. The Latin word for left is "sinister" thus our English word sinister for anything threatening or malevolent.


and now on to more of Maroon 5's greatest hits - 2 more from Songs About Jane:

Not Coming Home



Sweetest Goodbye



and then on to the second album, Won't Be Soon Before Too Long

If I Never See Your Face Again



the only one with an official video but i'm posting this one instead cause i like james better than rihanna.


whoa, legitimate pre-midnight post. holy crap tag in use.

Gandhi was wrong.

Should I be scared that someone googled "Bo Pelini in tights" and ended up at my blog?

Pretty sure it led them to the entry about him about getting run over downtown in broad daylight.

Anyway, today was good. 9-2 at the work branch, then home, then out to the boyfriend's for dinner and a movie.

Work was fun. Spent the majority of it planning for next week's Teen Tech Week. That they put me in charge of.

Even though I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm working on it.

We're going with "Check in @ Your Library" and originally they had to check-in on Facebook on their phones, however not all teens have Facebook so we're going with having them answer questions about the library's website instead.

But they have to visit the library 4 times by the end of the week, each time filling out a sheet with their name and the date and then the answer to a question and those who visit 4 times get a candy bar and are entered into a drawing for an iTunes giftcard.

Should be interesting.

After work I got Chinese - cashew chicken, half of which is in my fridge - watched some Lie to Me and then headed out to see the boyfriend. We got cheap tacos at Taco Johns for Taco Tuesdays and then got Seven Psychopaths from Redbox.

Here's my favorite part.



Hilarious.

Scale of Awesome says 7/10. I love Sam Rockwell. He's one of my favorites, and Collin Farrell wasn't so bad along with Christopher Walkin and Woody Harrelson. It was a really unique storyline, basically Rockwell and Walkin steal dogs and fake like they found them and return them to the owners thereby getting the finder's fee. Bad things start to happen when they kidnap Harrelson's dog Bonnie since Harrelson just happens to be a mob boss.

Farrell is a screenwriter working on a story called Seven Psychopaths and needs to come up with seven different psychopaths to feature - in the beginning he just has the title. Meanwhile his life suddenly becomes filled with psychopaths and he ends up making a run for it to the desert along with Walkin and Rockwell which is where this scene takes place.

"You can't let the animals die in a movie...only the women."

"Put your hands up!"
"No."
"What?"
"I said no."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't want to."
"But I've got a gun."
"I don't care."
"It doesn't make any sense."
"Too bad."

Each psychopath is totally unique, but what was interesting was how their stories weaved into the main story. Really cool and amusing.

After that we watched a bit of We Bought a Zoo which we'd both seen before but it was still excellent.

So that was my day, on to the music. Still debating about the fiction now that Jax is done with. Maybe Matt Harper - not the detective, the high school student. I liked the name so I reused it, long story.

More Maroon 5's Songs About Jane album. You're gonna get a lot of these the next couple weeks.

Sunday Morning


you twist to fit the mold that i am in...


Secret



Through With You



just a couple more from this album tomorrow. i know, it's a lot but there will be even more when it comes to their 3rd album.

I neglected to mention the Adam did a Blake Shelton impersonation on stage, it was hilarious. "Here's my Blake impression." Turned all hick with a deep voice.

out!

is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe...

Gonna start off by saying I feel like crap.

I need at least 6 hours of sleep to function and since I got less than 4 last night my stomach is all acidy - does anyone's get that way or is that just me? Like even if I stay up all night on purpose like at lock-ins and stuff when I was a kid - my stomach turns into complete acid and hurts and I'm nauseous and it throws off my whole day. Plus I was burning up this morning but too tired to go get thermometer so I'm really hoping I'm not getting whatever flu is going around cause that means the boyfriend will now get it and he's been sick enough.

Needless to say I slept all day, finally waking up around 5:30 to eat and then crashing back on the couch to watch Bones, Malibu Country and NCIS.

I did however, register for not only summer classes but fall ones as well and did some homework before getting on here to post so the day wasn't a complete loss.

This summer I'll be taking Foundations which is a 1 credit class completely online that you can apparently finish in like a week - yay. And then Library Systems which is 3 credits completely online but it's only in June so with that combination I should be fine for camp in July.

In the fall I'm taking Youth Services which only makes sense since I'm in it and then doing my practicum at the Regional Center. Did I mention Tom is in? I about jumped up and down but then realized that would look bad and I don't want to scare him off already.

Anyway, 3 credits for Youth Services and 2 for 90 hours of Practicum and then I'll be done completely.

After taking comps of course.

Which is going to suck big time.

It's the equivalent of writing a thesis, except that it's four of them basically. She told us to take that week off of work completely.

Oh joy.

I'm already nauseous this is just making it worse.

Okay new topic. Let's go with yesterday.

So, from the beginning, since apparently me not posting means I'm dead on the side of the road.

Sunday, March 2nd,

scratch that, March 3rd,

See, can't even function properly. Good thing I wrote down the class names and numbers before attempting to register today.

Anyway, woke up at 9:50, went to church. Mom was there cause of Grams birthday party, she came early to help the Cool Aunt set up. After church went out with Oldest Sister's family plus Mom plus the Cool Aunt to the awesome Greek restaurant for some flaming cheese - which my niece and nephew are obsessed with cause they light it on fire and yell opa - and some eggs and sausage, cause apparently they have a breakfast menu.

It was awesome.

Afterwards I came back to the apartment, showered, and figured out numbers for classes and added them to a cart so all I had to do was hit enroll and I'm good. Which I did so I'm good.

Then headed over to Grams place for the party. It was a good turnout, some of her siblings were there and their kids, then the Cool Aunt's family and a couple of uncles, one with his wife and a daughter and then ours minus Second Sister who is sick.

So I'm basically screwed cause our family is sick and people at work are sick. I'm hoping it'll just be today and then I'm over it. Granted it's worse cause of the lack of sleep but I don't think that's the entire cause of the thing. Got the gross runny nose and cough to go with it too but I've had that all week.

Blah.

Anyway, we sang and ate cake and jammed out for about an hour with the family. Nice to see some extended family I haven't seen in like years. And Grams was happy so that was good. We took a lot of pictures and I got to talk to my uncles about some family history that I've been attempting to collaborate. Scroll down a few posts, well it might be a few pages by now since you've gotten Jax and Matt Harper since.

I know all this stuff about my Dad's side but really nothing about Mom's side which is weird cause I lived with Grams.

Anyway, I asked my uncles about a family legend - basically my grandpa was a kickass baseball player. And I'm not just saying that. He was a pitcher and no one could hit off him. He played for a farm team in Kansas in the semi-pros and legend has it he got called up to the big leagues, but the day before he was going to leave his throwing arm got hit by a stray ball and his career was over.

But it's legend because my uncles have heard it through extended family and not from their own dad because grandpa was never about showing off. He wrote a book - a novel - and it got published and they didn't even know about it until after it came out.

Which was posthumous, btw.

But he didn't tell them. He was good man, my grandpa, and I'd like to learn more about him but with Grams the way she is with the Alzheimer's I'm almost too afraid to ask her. Cause I don't want to upset her if she doesn't remember.

And it's a hard topic anyway.

I have his journals. Well, sections of his journals that my artist uncle uploaded. But those only go so far, like I said he wasn't one to show off.

So I shall continue to attempt to get my facts from extended family.

Where was I?

Oh yeah, birthday, Grams was happy and it was fun.

After that came back to the apartment to get ready for the concert. The boyfriend has this thing that DRIVES ME NUTS where I tell him to be here at 5 and then he'll text me at like 4:55 saying he's just leaving - there's an hour drive between his place and mine - and then I start freaking out and then 5 minutes later the buzzer on my door goes off and he's here.

Cause he's full of crap and was in the parking lot the whole time.

Mean.

So we left about 5:15, got to the arena around 6:30 and parked in the lot cause we don't really know that area as well. I go there with the Cool Aunt for the CWS but she drives and really, whenever I go there for school I stick to 72nd and Dodge. That's literally all I know. BTW lot parking, bad idea, but I'll get there.

Went in, showed our tickets, found our seats - front row mezzanine on the balcony it was awesome I was like 50 feet away from Adam Levine, holy crap.

The boyfriend said if he lost his voice - like last week - his sister could fill in for him.

First off, Adam Levine and Avril Lavigne are not related.

Which he knows, but did I mention that he's often full of crap just to bug me?

So the seats were great, the guy a couple seats down from us was not so great. We were on the end - and being on the end is awesome - except when people keep insisting on getting up to leave and go talk to the people in the row behind you. Eventually they just went and sat back there but there were at least 5 times he had to walk back and forth in front of us before that happened.

Anyway, Owl City was first.



They did about 5 songs - I knew 2 of them, apparently I need to listen to their new album cause all I could sing were Fireflies and Good Time. Fireflies was super cool cause everyone had their phone out in the pitch dark and it looked like fireflies.



Then came Neon Trees - whom I love.



See, I got their single Animal free off itunes way before they were on the radio. So then when I heard it on the radio I went nuts - same thing with Hey Monday and La Roux. They played Animal, Everybody Talks, some others from their new album and then covered Don't You Want Me by the Human League. The audience went nuts, we went nuts. The boyfriend even sang that one.

But the sociology minor in me kicked in during this whole thing cause the majority of the people in the audience were either 40 or teenagers. And then there was like me and him and Beej (who was there with a group of teenagers.) Anyway, so it was hysterical because when they covered that all the "old" people - they're not old, don't scoff, I'm just saying in the context of audience members they were old compared to the teenagers - so all the "old" people were yelling out the lyrics while the younger ones sat back and went, "what the hell is this song and why do you know the words?" So they rocked it, but not nearly as much as Maroon 5 rocked it.

Holy crap. So while Owl City and Neon Trees sang about 5 a piece, Maroon 5 sang about 20, and it was awesome.

They started with Payphone and it all went uphill from their, even including classics like Sunday Morning, She Will Be Loved, Harder to Breathe, and This Love. Other ones you might know are Wake Up Call, Won't Go Home Without You, Makes Me Wonder, Misery, Moves Like Jagger, and then their newest One More Night, Daylight, Lucky Strike, and Love Somebody - amongst others. It was awesome.



So they sang 3 out of my top 5 - Won't Go Home Without You, Misery, and Moves Like Jagger only missing Back At Your Door and How. But I love them all and making that top 5 and leaving others out like Man Who Never Lied, Doin' Dirt, Get Back In My Life, One More Night and Lucky Strike are painful, but they're in my top 10.



Did I mention I was a fan?

Blame Second Sister.

She's the one that gave me the Hands All Over CD that brought them back in my life - after the first album I got distracted by other artists. Now they're back full-force.

And she's the one that called today demanding details.



Anyway, one of the coolest things was how much he featured James Valentine. Kept calling him a native and saying how excited he was to do the show for months and how he deserves the most camera time.

Held up his guitar pick that said Jimmy V.



Loved it.

For those of you who don't know James Valentine is his guitarist.

And he's from Lincoln.

Plus he's awesome so it's a trifecta.

And speaking of natives - Neon Trees' sound engineer is from Omaha so he and his kid ran onstage before the performance and took a picture in front of the crowd.

I literally cannot ramble enough about how awesome Maroon 5 were live.



I mean, Neon Trees was fantastic. Tyler has some excellent dance moves - and cool shoes - plus their female drummer is phenomenal, but Adam, James and the rest of their crew were even better.



It was amusing because at one point they gave Adam a camera and he went around introducing his band members.

They sang for a while then left the stage and I'm like, are they not gonna sing Moves Like Jagger? I was in shock. Then they dropped the bridge which was up in the ceiling to the platform in the middle of the crowd and they came back out and sang that was plus She Will Be Loved - acoustic with James - Stereo Hearts, and Daylight.



Instead of Xtina it was some brunette, who I'll have to Google cause I have no idea who it was. She was good just not as good as Xtina. She did has kickass boots though.

As do a lot of people lately so apparently I need some. Which Oldest Sister keeps insisting but see the only place I go is work. And the last time I wore boots to work was on a dare - the cowboy ones after Myers, sorry Connelly's wedding - and they kicked my ass. That was painful.

There's a reason I don't wear heels, you should have seen me in drama senior year, oh geez.

Silver high heels as Elaine Harper in Arsenic and Old Lace attempting to flee Jonathan and his henchman Einstein (who just happens to be the current boyfriend.)

"Run across the stage in these and don't make noise that the floor mics will pick up."

Yeah, right.

I got so much crap from Juwanna. Still have a picture of us holding them after a performance.

Where was I?

See what I said about ramblings? Amped just talking about the concert - it was this times ten last night which is why I couldn't sleep.



It rocked, so they sang and we sang - boyfriend included.

Which he will deny I'm sure so please bring it up in the future.

But he did good.

Was the perfect present.

So of course afterward he's like, you know I'll never be able to top that, right?

Ever the romantic showing up at work with flowers and all that.

He'll think of something.

After we got out of the building we got stuck in the lot for an hour, and like I said they sang about 20 plus the other 10 so it was way way way late by the time we got back.

Which is why I'm going to bed early tonight - early meaning midnight.

Which is 5 minutes from now.

So I should stop rambling and post the music and fiction and then crash.

As expected you're gonna get a lot of Maroon 5 for the next week.

Or two.

So get used to it.

Figuring out how I'm gonna divide this up. Think I'll go by album so favorites from Songs About Jane - came out 2002 - of course I can't post them all so you'll get 3 and then tomorrow you'll get more from SAJ and then it'll go from there on...

Harder To Breathe



This Love


She Will Be Loved


THEY LOOK SO YOUNG!

alright, all fantastic and now it's on to the Jax's finale. or should i say beginning.

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni - Part Six

I get about halfway done with my own grave before my arms start shaking and I can’t dig anymore. The taller man looks at me, then at the dead girl, then at me again. I shake my head no. It doesn’t matter what I say, I’m dead anyway.

The taller man points his gun at my head. “Any last words, Mr. Jameson?” he asks.

I just stare at him.

“Go with God,” he says, cocking his gun.

“If there was a god, there wouldn’t be people like me,” I reply, closing my eyes waiting for the gunshot.

“Jax…Jax,” says a female voice.

Who was that? How do they know my name? I open my eyes and look around, seeing only the two men in front of me and the dead girl to my left. None of the three have moved since I closed my eyes or seem to notice another female presence.

“What?” I ask.

“Your alarm is going off,” says the voice.

Alarm? I blink and I’m gone. Ceiling. No stars. A dream. “Right, sorry,” I say reaching for my phone and turning off the alarm. Eight A.M. I sit up, throwing my legs over the side of the bed, and run my hands over my face. It was a dream. Stop sweating. In my stomach I can feel her eyes on me. I turn around and see the girl smiling at me. It’s probably against regulations to sleep with your assigned partner the night before a mission but I’ve never been one for following rules. She looks a lot better without the blood-splattered face. I should really get her name before the op tonight. She only knows mine, or one of my aliases rather, because I paid for the hotel room with a credit card.

I grab my duffel bag and walk to the bathroom to take a shower. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. After I’m done I return to find her dressed and cleaning her gun. Eight-fifteen A.M.

“Ready?” she asks, looking up at me from the chair in the corner.

“Yeah.”

She pulls a phone out from her bag and hands it to me. I hold down the number two key, activating the speed dial. It takes two rings before someone picks up.

“I can get you what you want,” I say simply. There is a pause.

“Blue building, corner of thirty-third and Thomas,” says a German voice. “Eleven P.M. Through the back door and up the stairs to the second floor. Come alone.” Dialtone.

I look at the girl. “Phase one, complete.”

***11:15 P.M.***

“Do we have an understanding, Herr Jameson?” the German asks, staring at me through the darkened office. 

...

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni - We go into the circle by night and are consumed by fire.

and then it starts over again. cause it's a circle.

...for more pictures see facebook album...