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.

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!