on the edge of seventeen.

It's handy when you're aware of how much of a morning person you are not.

Something like setting an alarm days early because you know you'll forget day-of is quite helpful.

Though a bit confusing when you wake up to your phone alarm going off at 7AM and don't remember why you set it for 7 and not the usual 8.

Oh, meeting, right.

Last coffee with the Library Goddess.

As her GA anyway.

Stoked for tomorrow's party.

Basically we go to Mizzou even though it's online. So for graduation we can either drive there and walk the stage or they can mail us our diplomas. Since it's a far drive and not everyone is going over the Library Goddess is throwing the graduates a party at her house.

And since I'm her GA I get to go even though I don't graduate until December.

I get to pour margaritas, I'm excited. The same crew I'm sure. I love our gang, they're highly entertaining.

Digital Beef Derby Girls.

Black and white uniforms with a QR code on the back. Awesomeness.

Anyway, so today work was pure crapsuck.

The morning coffee was good but it was over early so I went over to work early and basically fell back asleep downstairs - but set an alarm so I'd wake up at 9 for work.

Note to self - never do that again. You will be dead on your feet until noon.

I was literally a walking zombie until lunch.

So the work day started off crappy cause all I wanted to do was sleep - it doesn't help that I keep going to bed at 2AM, that needs to change.

And then the work day ended crappy cause I got yelled at for something that's not my fault.

And there were still like 10 patrons in the library after closing and all I wanted to do was get the heck out of there and go see my boyfriend.

Which I did. We went out for supper and then watched Collateral.



We seem to be on a Tom Cruise kick. Saw Oblivion earlier this week, Jack Reacher on our anniversary, etc.

Not bad, scale of awesome rates it at about 6/10. Jamie Foxx was fantastic. And Tom Cruise had gray hair the whole movie, totally freaked me out. But he played it well.

And the boyfriend's Mom gave me a May Day basket. I feel special.

But he fixed it all, as always. I no longer feel crapish or suckish.

Anyway, after I got back I watched, well am watching Win Win.



It's pretty good actually. Normally I'm not a fan of Paul Giamatti, not that I don't like him, I just don't search out his movies, but he's not bad in this one.

The kid is brilliant - Alex Shaffer. He was actually a wrestling champion before he became an actor.

I knew the assistant coach from something and it was driving me nuts so I had to look it up. Bobby Cannavale. Will & Grace. That's right. Okay, we're good now.

Anyway, scale of awesome says about an 8/10 for this one.

Okay, yes, it is 2AM and yes I am not sleeping.

But in my defense I am off tomorrow and don't have to be up until my dentist appointment in the afternoon.

Of which I should double check my schedule so I can figure out what time exactly I need to be up.

Alright, on to the music:

Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks


whoa, classic video.

though every time i hear the song i think of this:


oh, joan cusack. you are highly entertaining.

He's a bird dog.

So I broke down and got Twitter.

Now I feel like even more of a stalker.

But it's amusing to read what my favorite celebrities are rambling about.

Watched Splash in the background when I was setting it up.

Just when I was starting to like Brandi Chastain. It would have been cool if she won since she started as an alternate.

No, honestly Nicole Eggert deserves to win the show, but I've been rooting for Drake and Rory since the beginning so I feel I gotta stick with them.

Work today was interesting.

More Aide Training.

Shelving Adult Non-Fiction and Youth Services now.

She's great, so far perfect minus a book on CD issue yesterday.

I don't know how but we are completely caught up on shelving.

We have some awesome aides and volunteers.

One of my volunteers is 93 years old. Comes in almost every day.

Skipped the Volunteer Recognition Banquet cause it was her day to volunteer.

Gets up on step stools to reach the high shelf, she's fantastic.

Aside the aide training there were a lot of tiny children running all over the place. Multiple grade school tours going through.

Originally I was asked if I wanted to help lead them but tiny children in giant masses freak me out.

I know, it's great that I work in Youth Services, huh?

Camp I can handle cause it's controlled groups in organized sessions and they're all over 3rd grade.

Speaking of camp, getting stoked.

Gonna have to start putting together some skits while I have the time.

But first I should really finish all my homework.

Final project presentation for Diversity is next week, along with my final assignment for Internet Reference.

She's finally letting us use Google.

I know the point of the class is to get us to use a variety of resources, but I can find things so much faster on Google than any of those other sites!!

Drove me nuts cause assignments took 3 times as long. But that's what you do when you work reference, Google, because the people on the phone don't want to wait for you to search a variety of search sites they want a phone number, address, answer to some obscure trivia question, etc. and they want it right away.

Anyway, I'm excited to be able to use Google.

As excited as one can be when they're talking about homework.

But I will soon be done with it eternally so I guess it's okay.

Next week, then I'm free 'til June. After June everything will be about Camp and Summer Reading and then classes pick up again in August and then I'll be done in December!!

I have no idea where this post was headed so I'm going to steer it toward something I do know about and that's The Voice.

I know, you're all shocked, but I didn't post about it last night cause I hadn't watched it yet so you're getting it tonight.

Highlights episode was on tonight to prep for next week's live shows. I'm so excited!!

Anyway, Monday Adam and Shakira's teams were knocked down to four a piece, last night it was Blake and Usher's turn.

Team Blake

"someone nice?"

Team Usher

"well that's inappropriate."
"Beaches...?" I love Michelle, that's fantastic.

Here's how my top 20 lines up after last night's knockout rounds.

Red = Adam
Green = Blake
Blue = Usher
Purple = Shakira

Judith Hill - Adam, defeated Karina in battles and Orlando in knockout round

Jess Kellner - Usher, defeated Taylor, lost to Josiah in knockouts

Midas Whale - Adam, defeated Patrick, beat by Amber in knockout round

Caroline Glaser - Blake, lost to Taylor stolen by Adam, defeated Amy in knockout round

Monique Abbadie - Shakira, defeated Luke, lost to Karina in knockout round

Sasha Allen - lost battle, stolen by Shakira, defeated Shawna in knockout round

Michelle Chamuel - Usher, defeated Chelsea in battles and Audrey in knockouts

Sarah Simmons - Adam, defeated Duncan in battles and Warren in knockout round

Christian Porter - Blake, eliminated during battles

Jessica Childress - Usher, eliminated during battles

Jeff Lewis - Usher, eliminated during battles

Jacqui Sandell - Blake, eliminated during battles

Karina Iglesius - lost to Judith stolen by Shakira, defeated Monique in knockout round 

Holly Tucker - Blake, defeated Michelle in battles and Luke in knockouts

Garrett Gardner - Shakira, defeated J'Sun in battles and Tawnya in knockout round

Danielle Bradbery - Blake, defeated Caroline in battles and Taylor in knockouts

Amber Carrington - Adam, defeated Sasha in battles and Midas Whale in knockout round

Savannah Berry - Blake, defeated Jacqui in battles, lost to Justin in knockouts

Josiah Hawley - Usher, defeated Jeff in battles and Jess in knockouts

Audrey Karrasch - Usher, defeated Jamila in battles, lost to Michelle in knockouts

I'm ticked that Jess is out. She was way better than Josiah.

But I'm really starting to love Danielle Bradbery, she's good.

Anyway, here are the the team lineups for the live rounds:

Team Adam:
Judith Hill
Caroline Glaser
Sarah Simmons
Amber Carrington

Team Blake:
Holly Tucker
Danielle Bradbery
Justin Rivers
Swon Brothers

Team Shakira:
Sasha Allen
Karina Iglesius
Garrett Gardner
Kris Thomas

Team Usher:
Michelle Chamuel
Josiah Hawley
VEDO
Cathia

Monday, Tuesday AND Wednesday of next week. And Cee-Lo is making a guest appearance. Gonna have to clear out my DVR.


I know, I know, you read none of that. But it's Voice season, so get over it.

Song of the night:

Okay, weirdest song ever.



Ever weirder?

It was a big hit.

What the crap is a bird dog?

And see I want to hate it, cause the lyrics are so weird. But I can't get the melody out of my head cause the harmonies are catchy.

Dangit.

Jack Harper, Tech 49

More Aide Training today.

She reminds me of my original high school roommate, looks just like her and is goofy as well.

Original meaning my first roommate.

Well, I guess there were two, but then the one got kicked out. Then another moved in and then I switched rooms and moved in with two others and then another moved in with us so I had...6 roommates throughout freshman year?

And then she went on to room with Juwanna - who was my last high school roommate - before ditching us for Texas.

My favorite memory of her is, okay so it was freshman year and I was super homesick and I think it was like the first or second week and she was trying to cheer me up so she put a box on her head - think she was unpacking or something - and started dancing.

So I pulled out my disposable camera and took a picture.

I don't know if she heard the click or saw the flash but she turned around, put her hands on her hips and just stared at me. Box on head.

It was hysterical.

Anyway, the new aide is great. She shelved today and tagged so I got to go through and pull them. Got all the books right so I was impressed.

Not bad for her first time, though she does work at a bookstore so I guess it wasn't all that surprising.

Work flew by pretty quickly. Afterwards I headed out to see the boyfriend.

We met up at the theater to see Oblivion.



Oh my god, so weird.

So, so weird.

I was intrigued but at the same time I was totally confused. But that was kind of the point I guess.

Scale of Awesome says about 7/10.

Entertainment Weekly said "We liked Oblivion better when it called Moon and starred Sam Rockwell."

So I checked out Moon to compare and contrast.

But it's already a step up because while I don't like Tom Cruise I love Sam Rockwell.

Not only cause he's Drew's friend - Charlie's Angels, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Everybody's Fine, etc. - but also for Seven Psychopaths, Iron Man 2, etc.

Here's the trailer for that:


holy crap, that's like dead on.

Anyway, after that we watched parts of Dark Shadows and Edward Scissorhands, I know Johnny Depp marathon, and then Napoleon Dynamite.

So it was a good day.

Am watching the Voice, only halfway through so not gonna post about that until tomorrow.

For now you're getting:

Crazy Women - LeAnn Rimes


love it.

It's Shakespearean, it's Dickensian, it's Kardashian.

Back at work today.

You could tell it was Monday.

Lots of tired staff and not a lot of patrons so it was a little slow.

Which is fine cause it gives me time to work on other projects like more Summer Reading and volunteer stuff.

Got one of my adult volunteers started on shelving Youth Services.

She's Russian and used to work in a library in Russia so she picked it up very quickly.

So quickly in fact that I barely had to train her at all. When I went through each category she pointed out where they go and when I started her on shelving she put them in the exact space they're supposed to go.

I'm making her tag them so I can look over them, but still, I'm impressed.

That's really all I can remember about today.

Oh, except for the part where some dude asked if he could take a picture of my Green Lantern t-shirt.

But what do you say to that, really?

I told him he could find pictures of it online or find it at Target.

Guess that's what I get for wearing fun shirts.

He's another one that makes up excuses to come to the desk to talk to me. Last week he rambled about some sort of chemistry meteorology thing, I don't know I can't remember.

Tried to block it from my brain.

But Queen of the Known Universe was laughing.

Dangit, just when my stalker count was lowering out.

Castle tonight was epic. Love the flashbacks. Kind of cheesed up the drama part, but she was standing on a bomb so you had to have some sort of comic relief.

And Bones was alright. For a season finale I was expecting more. I am super depressed for Brennan now though.

2 Broke Girls was humorous.

Yes I spent a lot of tonight on the couch watching TV but I need a night off from homework and stress and all that.

Anyway, they filmed an episode - well, fake filmed - an episode of SVU in the diner and hired Max and Caroline as extras.

That's where the status is from, basically they're pimping themselves out as actresses so they can get money to pay for Chesnutt's shoes - he's a horse.

The Voice was also on tonight and of course I'm saving it for last cause I get all rambly.

Battles were last week - check out this video cause it's awesome:


Dropping it down from 12 members to 8.

I love that video, that's cool.

Tonight was Night One for Knockouts - Team Adam and Team Shakira, tomorrow will be Team Blake and Team Usher. Each artist picks their own song to sing and their coaches pair them up against each other. So they went from 8 to 4 members each for the live rounds which will start next week!

Big upsets tonight, I lost 2 of my top 5 - Midas Whale (huge shock) and Monique Abbadie.

But the winners deserved it.

Here's my lineups after Night One of the Knockouts.

Red = Adam
Green = Blake
Blue = Usher
Purple = Shakira

Judith Hill - Adam, defeated Karina in battles and Orlando in knockout round

Jess Kellner - Usher, defeated Taylor

Midas Whale - Adam, defeated Patrick, beat by Amber in knockout round

Caroline Glaser - Blake, lost to Taylor stolen by Adam, defeated Amy in knockout round

Monique Abbadie - Shakira, defeated Luke, lost to Karina in knockout round

Sasha Allen - lost battle, stolen by Shakira, defeated Shawna in knockout round

Michelle Chamuel - Usher, defeated Chelsea

Sarah Simmons - Adam, defeated Duncan in battles and Warren in knockout round

Christian Porter - Blake, eliminated during battles

Jessica Childress - Usher, eliminated during battles

Jeff Lewis - Usher, eliminated during battles

Jacqui Sandell - Blake, eliminated during battles

Karina Iglesius - lost to Judith stolen by Shakira, defeated Monique in knockout round 

Holly Tucker - Blake, defeated Michelle

Garrett Gardner - Shakira, defeated J'Sun in battles and Tawnya in knockout round

Danielle Bradbery - Blake, defeated Caroline

Amber Carrington - Adam, defeated Sasha in battles and Midas Whale in knockout round

Savannah Berry - Blake, defeated Jacqui

Josiah Hawley - Usher, defeated Jeff

Audrey Karrasch - Usher, defeated Jamila

Tomorrow will be the green and the blue as Team Usher and Team Blake are up.

The most epic of tonight's battles was probably Sarah Simmons vs. Warren Stone. You can check it out here:


It's amusing because they post all these behind-the-scenes sort of videos so you can get to know the artists.

Here is my favorite for Team Adam

(Dolly Partner, is that weird? Yes it's weird.)

and Team Shakira

(don't worry I can't tell them apart either Tawnya. and Bruno Mars? I can see that.)

and of course my other music rec of the night is:

Dip it Low - Christina Milian


alright, back to Diners, Driveins and Dives.

making me want a hamburger.

Nothing says romance quite like riding motorcars in Iowa.

So here's how I spent my weekend.



Riding motorcars in Iowa with the boyfriend.



Met a lot of cool people, these two were my favorites.



Steve is the boyfriend's good friend and his girlfriend is super nice. We talked a lot, was good to have another girl out there.

Surprisingly there were a few others as well. One brought cookies and lent me one of those cool reflector jackets when we went on the night run.

I was stylin'.

Here are some of my favorite shots and videos from the weekend:



The picture doesn't do it justice, but that's like 150 feet below us.

Here's a video.



No pressure whatsoever, right?



Only 150 feet.

That was actually only one of the bridges.

The other you can see here.


That part was my favorite.

Here are some other cool shots of some fun scenery.



some dude actually carved 3 of these, but only 2 of the trees are still standing.

jammed out on the tracks for a while so i took some nature shots.



gotta love creeks.

there was a lot of good scenery on this one.



My favorite part was probably the night ride.

And it was the boyfriend's as well, what he looked forward to all day really.



That is literally all you can see when you're on the bridge. AND THEN he turned the light off!!

Punk.

But I survived.

Downloaded an audio book on my iPod in case I got bored but didn't listen to a word of it. Just jammed to some music as we went.

No, it was a lot of fun.

And I think I did better than he thought I would.

Like the World's of Fun post here: The Difference Between If and When

Anyway, I had fun.

We left Friday night after work - I got off at 4, we took off around 5. He had it loaded onto a trailer behind a pickup. We listened to a variety of music on the way out there and back but there were a lot of repeats. I lost count how many times we heard "It Will Rain", "Daylight", "Drive-by", anything by Taylor Swift and that stupid don't you worry, don't you worry song.

Another thing we have in common, hatred for Swedish House Mafia.

They had some weird commercials in Iowa, what's a "naked burrito bar"?

Stopped at Culver's for supper and rolled into Boone at about 10:30.

Woke up at 6:30 AM.

The boyfriend made me a waffle.

He thinks it's funny that I'm not a morning person.

Making fun of the fact that someone is not a morning person does not turn them into a morning person.

Headed over to the railroad soon after where I met Steve and Donnie.

He was hilarious and she was a Godsend.

Everyone there was really nice. They talked train jargon so fast I basically just kept my mouth shut. But I caught on eventually.

So we rode twice in the morning, took a break for lunch. We hit up a cafe with Steve and Donnie, got breakfast for lunch, gotta love it, then headed back for a couple more rides. After that we had to take a break cause they were running a dinner train through so we went out for ice cream then checked in at our hotel.

Oh yeah, we stayed at 2 different hotels cause everywhere was pretty booked up.

Then headed back for an evening run...which then led to a night run.

Super dark and super cool.

But there were only 2 of us by then. People tend to disappear after the morning run and then filtered out from there.

But the boyfriend likes when there are less people because then you can go faster.

Lot of hurry up and wait stuff.

Men are chatty.

Donnie and I laughed at that. They talk about women talking, they're the ones holding up traffic.

But it was amusing.

After the night run it was back to the hotel, slept in, stopped for lunch at Pizza Hut - listened to a woman describe in great detail the Kaley Cuoco car commercials - and back to Nebraska.

He headed home right away cause he went into work tonight.

Crazy.

And I should really crash cause I'm exhausted so I'll hit you with some quotes and then I'm out.

Quotes of the Trip:

The boyfriend: You can't drive like a nice guy when you live in a big city. You have to fit in with everyone else and drive like a jerk. 
aw, he's so nice.

The boyfriend: Who doesn't know Mahna Mahna?
he did a lot of Mahna Mahna-ing whilst we rode. We had the headphones so we could actually hear each other. There were a few Airplane! references in there as well.

Steve: "Good" and "McDonald's" don't fit in a sentence together, it's an oxymoron. Unless it's a breakfast burrito or snackwrap. 
speaking of Oxymorons, we passed a Dodge Ram on the way home. Can you both Dodge and Ram at the same time?

All-in-all it was a good trip.

Except when I lost a ring.

One with a lot of memories behind it.

I know, what is it with me losing important stuff while on vacation with him?

So there goes my fake engagement ring.

Left a piece of myself in Boone Iowa, good god.

Told him he'd have to buy me a replacement.

We'll see about that.

Music and I'm out.

Nothing but the Taillights - Clint Black


song actually came up on my iPod during the night run. gotta love the irony cause really that's all we could see.

22 - Taylor Swift


cause i had already posted the other songs that played on repeat. aside from that freakin' SHM one.

never ever.

but see the 22 i'm used to listening to is lily allen's.


love her.

and just cause i think it's funny:

here's 32


it's driving me nuts cause i swear i know that blonde from something.




out.

she can't see the way your eyes light up when you smile.

Just got home.

Drove home safely, and didn't speed.

As opposed to what Queen of the Known Universe told Wordie today.

But I only have 1 point on my license.

Which I told him.

I neglected to tell him that it took me 2 stop classes to get it down to 1 point, but whatever.

Today was good.

Work went by super fast, staff meeting in the morning up on 3rd then lot of people around but not too many people. But it kept me busy.

After work I headed out to the boyfriend's. He changed the oil in my car. Such a nice boyfriend.

Minus a whole cereal sucks campaign.

He doesn't like it.

Which makes me sad because it is in my top 3 foods.

It goes chocolate, cereal and popsicles. After that it's all tacos, pizza, burgers, etc.

But he says he's not excited by cereal, like it's boring or something.

He's missing out.

So there was that.

Got his motorcar ready for this weekend's run.

Yes, the countdown continues.

Nothing says romance quite like riding motorcars in Iowa.

You probably won't hear from me for a while on here, but I'll post pictures and updates on Facebook.

Already got people questioning my health and now sanity for this trip.

But this way they'll know I'm still in one piece.

And, you know, breathing.

So that was my day.

Tomorrow is 9-4 and then we're off.

Yes, to the races.

They are called "speeders" afterall.

I'm sure I'll learn all about them by the end of the day.

Invisible - Taylor Swift


Nearly Witches - Panic at the Disco!

i know, i know, i just posted this like 3 months ago but i love it! you will all hate it, but i love it!

By the time I'm out the door, you tear me down like Roger Moore

Okay, to whoever got to my blog by searching for "dolly parton whorehouse stockings" I just have to say why?!

Why are you searching for that and why why WHY did that land you here?

So weird.

So the countdown 'til the motorcar trip continues.

Leaving Friday night and getting back Sunday.

Showed pictures of what we're riding in to the guard, she's jealous.

It'll be fun.

I hope.

No, I'm actually pretty excited.

Figuring out what to pack and all that is amusing. He says layers.

Gonna have to brush up on my train jargon.

Never thought I'd say that ever.

Especially after escaping them at the farmhouse.

Dad's obsessed with models, but the boyfriend is obsessed with the real thing.

Which is far more expensive.

But more lifelike so I guess that's okay.

Though one of dad's friends has one that's like a junior train and people ride in it at parades and stuff.

I was the cool kid cause I got to ride in the engine. Actually have a picture of me hanging out the side of it.

Back when I was young and cute.

I know, such a long time ago.

I would post it on here but then my coworkers would see it and then I'd be hosed.

Speaking of coworkers, tomorrow is food day for my Trainee's going away party.

I know, they're all leaving!!

Fearless Leader, Slim Shady now my Trainee. It's like all the people that were hired around the same time as me.

But Superwoman made me pinky promise that I wouldn't leave because of a boy.

Guess I'l be commuting.

Gonna have to remember to bring something this time, though I have no idea what.

Nutty bars or something of the like perhaps.

Oh, I have grapes.

That's healthy. Let's go with that.

So that's work tomorrow.

Well that and training a volunteer to shelve in Youth Services.

Work today was good. Super slow in the morning then a mad rush from like 2-5. Most of it being 3-4 which is when the New Girl and I were on the desk. It seems we are often paired together at that time and it's busy cause school gets out and then everyone has to stop at the library on the way home.

Gives me confidence that they think we can handle it on a regular basis.

Or maybe it was just a scheduling fluke.

Probably just a scheduling fluke.

What else? Oh, sent out an email about library golf asking for putters. If you have some or golf balls or anything that you think would make a good obstacle send it my way and I'll get it back to you soon after.

After work I went back to watching Blood Ties. Still on disc two but got distracted along the way.

So gonna get back to that. Or switch to DDD, see yesterday's post. See what I meant about getting distracted.

Carter's giving me the glare.

You know that "i can't sleep until you sleep so shutup and sleep."

Alright, I'm on it.

You know I'm no Good - Amy Winehouse


i know, i've posted this already.

but it's been a while.

and it's been stuck in my head all week. which i blame on Jess Kellner.

but it's one of those that i sing around the library.

well that, and this

whilst shutting things down at the end of the day or doing supply orders/summer reading stuff in the basement.

like how i used to sing george strait while shelving.

and then people notice.

and smile.

so i keep singing.


out!

The D is silent.

Okay, I've found a new obsession.

Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.

First it was The Voice.

Then it was falling asleep to Storage Wars.

Then it was falling asleep to home remodeling shows.

Now it's DDD.

What the crap is with this reality kick?

I hate reality TV.

Which I blame on my father.

With his newfound love of Swamp People, Ax Men, Duck Dynasty, oh there's more, what are the other ones, umm Big Shrimping.... the O'Reilly Factor.

Okay so that's news.

Well, "news"

More dramatic than others.

There's more but I can't remember them.

I posted on here ages ago his DVR lineup.

See if I can find it.

Ha, here it is.

American Pickers.

Pawn Stars.

American Restoration.

He was hooked on like was it Orange Choppers or something like that?

That motorcycle show?

Anyway, something is seriously wrong.

But it's okay, I've been watching a lot of movies to make up for it.

Last night the boyfriend returned.

Picked him up at the truck place and drove him back here where we watched Django Unchained and Game Change.

I know, a rather random combination, but it worked.

Here's Django.


if you're not gonna watch the movie you should at least watch this next clip.



apparently my brother loved it.

Scale of Awesome says about 7/10.

It was entertaining.

And even though it was long it was worth it.

I really like Christoph Waltz and it was interesting to see him play a good guy.

Cause he does that like never.

And Jamie Foxx was pretty great.

After that was Game Change.


this movie totally gave me pause.

like, was this a complete dramatization or was she really that ridiculous?

If you are a fan of politics.

Okay, no one's a fan of politics, let's go with, if you like controversy.

Okay, no bad again, how about if you like political controversy?

Does that work? If they're combined?

It shouldn't, but it does.

Then this is the movie for you.

Totally makes me think about what could have happened.

Scale of Awesome says 8/10, I was totally intrigued by the whole movie.

And since that didn't get over until like 3 and he wasn't going in to work he slept in and brought me my keys.

Queen of the Known Universe missed him yet again, as did Wordie.

HOWEVER...

So we're standing by the door and I see Superwoman going to talk to the guards and I'm thinking, oh here we go...

Cause she calls him "Stude" which I think is hilarious.

He was the "York Dude" and then it just evolved, anyway, so now it's Stude. So she came over and asked if he was "Stude".

Then after I walked him out and came back in she was like, "he's good looking!"

I died.

But he is.

Total Stud.

Total Stude.

Love it.

Anyway, work was kind of slow, but that helped.

After work I had an online meeting with my professor. I have to do an online presentation and even though I have the presentation done - I know, shocking, like months in advance and it's done - I don't know anything about the software so she basically went over it with me.

Feel much better about it now.

Now it's just about signing up for times to present and all that.

Week 15.

Basically the first week of May.

Which is also when my last assignment for Internet Reference is due.

But that's fine, cause like I said, it's done.

I just have to go over my notes so I can figure out what to say.

It's pretty much self-explanatory.

Well, what's become self-explanatory for me.

My topic is Diversity in Young Adult Programming.

Of which I've had a lot of time to work with lately.

And it was really easy.

Like, I knew where to look for sources, I already had ideas for programming on my own, I was actually excited about this topic.

Which is probably why it was done months in advance.

Getting pumped for our summer reading events.

Library Golf is gonna kick my ass, but it's gonna be worth it.

Alright, back to DDD. Here's your music.

Burning Love - Midas Whale vs. Patrick Dodd


gotta love the Battle Rounds.

My Top Twenty is still looking pretty good.

Here's my lineup after the battles.

Red = Adam
Green = Blake
Blue = Usher
Purple = Shakira

Judith Hill - Adam, defeated Karina

Jess Kellner - Usher, defeated Taylor

Midas Whale - Adam, defeated Patrick

Caroline Glaser - Blake, lost to Taylor stolen by Adam

Monique Abbadie - Shakira, defeated Luke

Sasha Allen - lost battle, stolen by Shakira

Michelle Chamuel - Usher, defeated Chelsea

Sarah Simmons - Adam, defeated Duncan

Christian Porter - Blake, eliminated during battles

Jessica Childress - Usher, eliminated during battles

Jeff Lewis - Usher, eliminated during battles

Jacqui Sandell - Blake, eliminated during battles

Karina Iglesius - stolen by Shakira

Holly Tucker - Blake, defeated Michelle

Garrett Gardner - Shakira, defeated J'Sun

Danielle Bradbery - Blake, defeated Caroline

Amber Carrington - Adam, defeated Sasha

Savannah Berry - Blake, defeated Jacqui

Josiah Hawley - Usher, defeated Jeff

Audrey Karrasch - Usher, defeated Jamila

Next week, Knockout Rounds.

I'm going to grandma's house and I'm bringing an abactor.

Now that's what I call a day off.

Grad school meeting this morning.

Comps review.

I don't take them 'til the fall but that's part of GA duties.

Met at a coffee shop, of course.

Got my usual chai tea latte in a to-go-cup.

Was there fairly early so played some hearts and jammed out in the corner.

After the meeting I came back, made some stir fry for lunch - okay so I poured a bag of stir fry into the skillet, heated it and then ate it but that counts as making it, right? - watched GI Joe - cause I will at some point see the sequel - and then took a nap.

It was glorious.

After that I turned on the SVU marathon - they have those a lot on USA, on the weekends its always either that or NCIS - added a fun word game to Facebook and did some writing.

The word game has exploded, thanks to some fun friends. Basically I say a statement and then a person says what's already on the list and then adds something of their own in alphabetical order.

So I started with: I'm going to grandma's house and I'm bringing an abactor.

Right now it's at:
I'm going to Grandma's and I'm bringing an abactor, a bridge, cribbage, a dolphin, eggplant, a feather duster, Gary Coleman, a horse, an ice sculptor, jello, Kalua, llamas, marshmallows, napkins, orange juice, pipe and a question.

and I'm going to add:
I'm going to Grandma's and I'm bringing an abactor, a bridge, cribbage, a dolphin, eggplant, a feather duster, Gary Coleman, a horse, an ice sculptor, jello, Kalua, llamas, marshmallows, napkins, orange juice, pipe, a question and a renegade.

Will go well with my abactor.

I know you're all running for a dictionary.

It's actually highly entertaining, will have to do some more.

Where was I?

Oh yeah, the writing.

Mostly Sketch and Edit.

But I'm not allowed to post them until I send physical copies to Sketch.

Or she would drive all the way out here just to beat me up.

Then get in the car and drive back so she could teach the next day.

Apparently her boyfriend, whom I shall call Plant Man - which makes sense but only if you've read Sketch and Edit's - found the SnE binder but she wouldn't let him see it.

Good plan.

Though they are all on here.

I should make a master list post with them all linked.

In order.

They're so scattered on here you'd have to dig through a bunch of pages just to find them.

And they go in spurts.

As I said, have to wait until I mail her some and I usually don't until I have a bunch.

Right now I have 4.

2 of which I'm still working on.

Well, I keep changing the others ones too.

But that's my fatal writing flaw, I'm always going back and fixing things.

Cause I don't like them.

And I never let anyone read my stuff, unless it's for a class.

But that was part of the deal. I had to write her stuff or she wouldn't draw me pictures anymore.

And thus Sketch and Edit was born.

And that was my day.

Oh, I did talk to Sketch for a couple hours tonight as well.

And the boyfriend is driving and will be home late late late tonight.

Which means I get to see him tomorrow.

Woohoo!

I know, I'm boring.

But it was an awesome day off.

Now I'm watching Bloopers.

I really hate Dean Cain.

He's so obnoxious.

And the hidden camera stuff makes me cringe.

But it's the closest to World's Dumbest I can get.

Without actually owning Tru TV.

Yep, gonna have to go up one so I can get Big Ten as well.

Alright, like I said, I'm boring so I'm gonna post some music and then crash.

Bad Moon Rising - CCR

Fun fact: apparently the refrain in the chorus is commonly misheard as "there's a bathroom on the right." So much so that Fogerty has sang it that way live for fun.

i remember karaoke-ing it with Delayed...Reaction - aka myself, Cory and then MAK who we wrote GADE for so she became a band member, and on the screen it showed "i hear the voice of raging ruin" and we all paused and went, "what the hell's a raging ruin?"

Hope you all had a good weekend!

We are not the B-Team! Fool, we are the second A-Team!

Saw this today.

Watch it and tell me you're not intrigued.

I dare you.


Serendipity is my stripper name.

Aw Claudia, how I've missed you and your snarky remarks.

No, seriously you should watch the clip. It's a great show, totally underrated though it is gaining speed.

Got a bunch of library friends hooked.

But how can you resist?

Though now every time I see anything by HG Wells I picture Jaime Murray instead of an old dude with a mustache.

Which makes library life interesting.

Not that it's not already interesting.

Take today, the work branch closed early because of a water leak.

Didn't really matter to me though as I wasn't there anyway.

Today was our annual volunteer recognition banquet.

Got a panic text from Superwoman asking me to go over early and cover for her.

Spent the majority of the time setting up tables, putting out chairs, napkins, programs, silverware, and staring longingly at the food - it's catered like cheesecake and chocolate and fruit and all that. Got a whole plateful and ate it whilst listening to speeches.



Lots of good speeches, the mayor - totally shook his hand - library director - aka Boss's Boss's Boss - and then our library board director.

Who I've talked to once.

Which was today.

Superwoman played emcee.

Joke of the day being her remembering what our volunteer tokens were called.

Sweat-free double-walled tumblers.

Looks like this complete with straw.

And she's allowed to cause she and I picked them out.

They are awesome.

I use my UNO one from the Cool Aunt all the time.

After the recognition I attempted to finish the homework I couldn't last night - see yesterday's post - cause their site was down.

Turns out it's still down.

And I wasn't the only one with issues, Maegan also commented on my post, along with one more and then I got an e-mail from a 4th asking if I'd heard anything.

Which I didn't.

So I just submitted everything with a note at the bottom and screenshot of the website when it was down.

Got an e-mail back from the prof saying she couldn't access it either so just to send it in and she would consult with the other prof.

Hoping we don't get docked for something that's not our fault.

Though the irony is that the question is something like go to Complete Planet and search for something you know a lot about. Are there databases listed that you've never seen before? Is Complete Planet worth checking again in the future.

Um, the answer to that right now, is no.

This assignment was much easier than the last one with all the census crap - yep, remember that one and the professor that hates me?

Though I can't decide if she still hates me or not.

She seems to be pleased with my work as of late.

So that's exciting I guess.

Aside from homework I've started watching Blood Ties.



He has some great moisturizer.

They're Canadian.

It's.

Weird.

But oddly entertaining.

I got the first two seasons from ILL.

2 discs in, we'll see where it goes.

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

Song of the night:

Miss You - Rolling Stones


Meeting tomorrow morning for class then a whole day off.

With no homework to work on.

Stoked.

Probably nap and watch more Blood Ties.

Or one of the other movies I have checked out at the moment.

The stack is growing.

And they all look good, but the problem is that the boyfriend and I watch a lot of movies and I think he would want to see some of them. So I'm waiting 'til he gets back.

Which is Monday.

Yay!

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

why do we even have that lever?

Chief quoted Emperor's New Groove on my wall yesterday.

So guess what I'm watching tonight.


Watch that and tell me it's not hysterical.

Please just try.

"and when it arrives I'll s-mash it with a hammer!"

Should totally make another.

Cause Kronk's New Groove was dumb.

But it wouldn't be the same since Eartha Kitt died in 2008.

She voiced Yzma.


"It's called a 'cruel irony', like my dependence on you."

Haven't seen this in like a decade.

Jokes are funnier now.


Probably one of my favorite cartoon movies of all time.

Might in fact be my favorite cartoon movie of all time...

Let me think.

The only other cartoons I really watched were Garfield - and I didn't even see those movies cause they sounded awful - Scooby Doo and the movies they made of those weren't animated, and if they made some I didn't see them. Then there was Rocket Power and....well I watch The Grinch every Christmas, the original anyway. Lilo and Stitch was good.

Yep, I guess it takes the cake.

And how can you beat David Spade and Wendie Malick's reunion?

Oh, Just Shoot Me, that'd make for an awesome movie!

Did you hear they're making a Veronica Mars movie?

Anyway, David Spade, Wendie Malick, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, and Patrick Warburton - who I now just call Kronk no matter what he's in.

So today flew by pretty quickly.

Started off at the home branch with the Queen of Awesome.

Always fun to work with her, even if I am half-asleep on my feet.

Sleep-deprived Space Cadet #2.

Anyway, after a couple hours there headed back to the work branch, then lunch at the Chinese joint when I noticed the Eli Young Band bus parked outside the library.

And it's like massive and taking up multiple parking stalls.

The Reference Queen was curious if it was paying for every one of those meters...

The rest of the day was dedicated to catching up on the manhunt.

You always know it's big when the TV's on at work. Otherwise it's just the powerpoint.

After work it was homework. Worked on it from 8-1. Still not done.

I mean, I would be, if the website was working.

Stupid online resources and their update hours.

Apparently normal people don't research databases on a Friday night.

Or I'm just not doing it right.

Either way it's not due until 10 Saturday night.

So I'll have tomorrow to finish it up, it's literally the last question, it'll take me 20 minutes tops.

Even if it Breaks Your Heart - Eli Young Band



Goodbye Earl - Dixie Chicks


still one of my favorite videos of all time.

and i'm crazy but you like it

Today was pretty much as dead as yesterday.

This whole storms and bad weather has thrown off our customer base.

I'm blaming the boyfriend cause it all started the day he left.

Luckily he gets back on Monday.

Which means I should attempt to get as much homework done this weekend as possible.

Speaking of homework, have a big assignment due Saturday at 10PM but am lacking the motivation.

Instead of researching - which I have started so I'm not completely blindsided - I watched Cashmere Mafia.

aka another series I was addicted in 2007 that didn't last longer than a season.

Here are a few of my favorite lines so far:

Zoe: "I mean she's like Business Barbie."

Mia: "Oh my god good or oh my god bad?"
Caitlyn: "Oh my god crap."

Juliet: "How do you take your coffee? My treat."
Cilla: "Light, no arsenic."

Mia's Mom: "and his mother says he's very handsome."
Mia: "Oh like that's not the kiss of death."
Mia's Mom: "and he wants to meet you for coffee at 5 today."
Mia: "what? MOM?!"

Caleb: "More powerful than ever, more beautiful than ever, an unstoppable ascension to the pinnacle of perfection."

Zoe: "Oh great, we're being summoned by a woman wearing a velour tracksuit."

Zoe: "The woman fed my children tofu while I watched."
Juliet: "She's a monster."

Mia: "You're a brain surgeon." *laughs*
Jason: "Is that funny?"
Mia: "No, it's great it's just that you don't really meet brain surgeons you know unless there's something scary inside your head. Other than the voice of your boss or your mother."
Jason: "Should I crack it open and take a look?"
Mia: "That's more of a second date thing for me."

*comparing scars*
Mia: "Bike messenger 23rd and Madison."
Jason: "Baby stroller 81st and Columbus."
Mia: "You got nailed by an upper west side stroller mommy?"
Jason: "Hey those women use their strollers as battering rams. Plowed right through me so she could get a Korean frozen yogurt."

Caitlyn: "and I have a thing on Saturday."
Zoe: "What do you mean a 'thing'?"
Juliet: "I get nervous when she says 'thing'."
Mia: "The last 'thing' ended with a slurred 3AM 'come and pick me up I don't know where I am' panic call."
Caitlyn: "it was an Italian restaurant in Nolita and I forgot what it was called."
Mia: "It was called Burritoville and it was in the meat-packing district but close."


and then my personal favorite:

Caitlyn: "My life is like a romantic comedy. Except it's never romantic. Or comedic. My life is nothing like a romantic comedy."

Just a few out of the many good ones. Interesting to see where these characters are now or have been in since. Even Juliet's daughter was in Zero Hour, I knew I knew her from something!


Anyway, it's cool. I'll have all of tomorrow night and then Saturday before I have to post it.

It's just gonna be like last time. I'll sit in the same spot for 4 hours and do it all at once. Gotten pretty good at that. For this class anyway.

Defiantly ready for a break.

So that and discussion boards tomorrow.

Plus you know real actual work.

What happened today at work?

Read more Silver Linings Playbook. Slowly working my way through, don't want it to end. Still listening to Warm Bodies.

Both awesome movies and excellent books.

That's all I remember. Nothing big. Spent a lot of time working with BossLady. Oh, trained a new volunteer who has actual library experience and wants to shelve Youth Services. Actually used the word "adore" as in I would "adore to" shelve Youth Services.

and that's all I got.

Just so tired lately, really need to sleep so here's this then I'm out.

I can hear Sketch's voice in my head. Put down the remote...

Loca - Shakira


love it. had to watch it just to see what she does at 2:08 cause she got so into that line when Monique sang it for blind audition.

here, watch 1:04


Monique Abbadie, pretty impressive. can't wait for her battle rounds, guessing she'll be paired off with like Cathia or Mary Miranda cause they had similar songs.

you're gonna miss me by my walk, you're gonna miss me by my talk...

Rollercoaster of a day.

Counted money in the morning, updated the TAB website, worked the desks, interesting conversations about book preferences with Queen of the Known Universe, read Silver Linings Playbook on break, got soup for lunch, watched more Total Wipeout UK, worked more desks, checked in holds, sorted carts, read more SLP on break, then worked desks yet again.

I'm really loving Silver Linings Playbook.

Quote of the Day: "Question Four: When are you going to bring home that broad you're always running with?"

And Warm Bodies.

Oh, did I mention I got that on CD?

So I'm reading SLP during the day but I listen to Warm Bodies on the way to and from work. Right now I'm on disc two.

Book is super different from movie on that one.

As is SLP, but not this drastic.

Like the movie better on that one but that could change as I'm only two discs in.

Both good reads.

And getting me back into reading.

I haven't really read anything that's not class related since college.

Which is ironic as I work in a library.

But see, I'm surrounded by books all day, the last thing I wanna do when I get home is read one.

Told that to my sister who is a pharmacist who says she understands. It's not like she goes home and does drugs.

Anyway, seeing these movies has brought back my urge to read things that aren't textbooks or articles so I'm actually having fun with it.

No, seriously, I think the last novel I read for something other than homework was one of the Castle books.

The second one I think - I own the third but haven't started it - but that's gotta be a few years.

And it's not like I don't read, I can't say that, I do read my friend's work that I edit, and need to work more on that - and I do have a book copy now that she's officially published, but like other than that I'm really lax on my reading.

And I should work on that.

I just have other things going on at the moment.

Well, passed couple years of moments.

With work and family and the boyfriend and friends and classes stuff got back-burnered.

So I'm bringing it back.

Or maybe this is just because the boyfriend is gone and I'm bored so it's temporary.

We shall see I guess.

I have no idea where I was going before this tangent...

Oh right, today, yes it was good. Work was slow but that's fine. After work went out to dinner with the sisters.

Lots of fun, ate some great Indian food.

Had my usual chicken tikka, half of which is in the fridge.

Interesting cause we can have really crappy days and then dinner just heals all.

But we're goofy like that.

Most of the conversations I can't repeat, or won't repeat.

Never boring.

Now I'm back at the apartment with my big fat cat.

He's half asleep next to me. Keeps rolling over and staring at me waiting for me to lay down so he can finally fall asleep.

I'm working on it!


Anyway, I just felt like crap today, thinking it was the weather. Like dead tired.

Helped Superwoman make this blockade thing around the men's bathroom cause they're fixing our usual one and like getting up on this chair and back down was like, okay, don't konk out in front of your boss.

She will take points away for style.

But our rock display did turn out to be pretty kickass.


Dinner woke me up.

Now I'm zonked again.

But with good reason as it is already midnight.


Alright, on to the music.

Well this is interesting...one of my favorite soundtracks has now lead to a music video?! But there's a bunch of controversy around who was the originator.

Anna Kendrick never claimed to be, just throwing that out there.

Here's the progression:

Started way back in 1937, called "Miss Me When I'm Gone" performed by the J.E. Mainer Mountaineers


after that came Charlie Monroe's cover


so you add those to this clip from Full House:


and it gives you this by Lulu and the Lampshades:


then Anna Burden covered it and made it huge on reddit:





and after watching it 50 times Anna did this:


and she talks about that here:

(all worth it for the look she gives him at 1:49)

and now suddenly we're here?


there's a radio version available on iTunes, does that mean it's gonna get air-play?

as refreshing as tangerine ice cream.

Here's my day in a nutshell:



They are rocks.

Tied together so they don't escape.

No, they're supposed to be decorative rock things that hang from our "Our Volunteers Rock" bulletin board.

Of which Superwoman and I created.

Sort of.

It's a cool idea, however, what people don't get is that I'm not crafty.

Never have been.

Like literally, I can MacGyver stuff with paperclips and quarters but I'm not arts and crafty.

Yes, I can write - no not the blog, the blog is fluff - but like visual representations of stuff like drawing and painting and sculpting I can't do.

It's just not my forte.

So being put in charge of a bulletin board is harder than one would think.

Superwoman came up with the design then put me in charge of hanging up the background while she went to cut out the letters.

Twenty minutes later - after I had stabbed myself twice and rambled loudly enough about my failures to attract someone up from Virtual Services to check on me and attempt to help - it still kept falling off.

I cut the paper long enough, but that was the only thing working in my favor.

The tape rebelled, the paper wasn't even, it was ripping at the sides, and it was super light so you could see the tape beneath.

And I was bleeding so I had to get bandaids.

Technically not my fault, someone left a pin attached the board so when I was smoothing down the paper my hand ran across it stabbing my finger.

Though I guess I can't say that about the second time - same pin, different finger.

So I came home with 3 bandaids - already having one on my thumb for the majority of the day.

Did I mention I'm not crafty?

And am a bit clumsy?

Anyway, so she came up and helped hang the paper and then we had these graphics that I had to staple to the bulletin board but like I said, I'm clumsy, and I'm sure the stapler has it out for me so none of them were stapled completely right, like the staples were crooked and barely in.

So then she put me in charge of the rocks. She gave me string and lots of rocks and told me to tie them together so I took them up with me to the lab - cause at that point it had taken longer than the scheduled hour to finish the display - so Queen of the Known Universe and I attempted to tie rocks to other rocks in a decorative manner.

As previously mentioned, my arts and crafts skills are lacking, and apparently QotKU is quite adept at wrapping packages and if you get that cross-ribbon approach down you'll be able to wrap rocks in a way that they'll stay in the string when you move on to the next one in the line.

For me, however, see I blame my bad present-wrapping on my cat cause he likes to lay on the wrapping paper whilst I am attempting to wrap, but really, I just suck.

Sh.

Anyway, so my rocks kept coming out of the strings so basically I think I tied like 2 rocks to each other and the rest QotKU finished.

They have yet to be hung.

I'm thinking that's going to be another challenge with this bulletin board as they are heavy and I don't think tape or staples will hold them for long.

Anyway, so this failed experience just reminded me of the last bulletin board I was put in charge of - this one was at the home branch back when we had a bulletin board instead of wiring stuff hanging from the ceiling.

But they were kids' artwork pieces and we were supposed to arrange them on the board and hang them up.

Behind the PACs which meant I had about a foot of space to work with.

Which would have been okay if my cat hadn't have bit me on the arm the night before.

He got the muscle so my entire arm was basically numb for the entire day.

So it was dead.

You should have seen it, not only am I behind the PACs with a dead arm, but I'm also on a step-stool so basically I used my dead arm to hold up the picture - well, leaned against the wall with it between my arm and the board. And then with my right hand I held the stapler and since I couldn't staple with my left it was like I basically took the stapler in my right hand and smashed it against the wall repeatedly until something stapled.

Loud, and ridiculous, but surprisingly effective!

So that was the highlight of my day.

I sat down for maybe like an hour total the whole day.

Lots of volunteers coming in and out and was constantly starting them on projects and then running supplies. And getting people new cards - big huge tour came through and half had fines to pay.

Oh and one of my favorite classmates stopped by, we talked for a bit about the joys of grad school.

It's cool to meet fellow Mizzou-ers that live in the area.

I know, it's like a personality disorder.

I was a lion, then a knight, then a bulldog and now I'm a tiger?

So that was my workday.

After which I came home, read more of Silver Linings Playbook, which I did during lunch and both of my breaks during the day.

Quote of the Day: 
Waitress to Tiffany after she swears up a storm: "Hey sister sailor-mouth" 

And then watched The Voice.

Here's my top twenty for season four including the changes:

Red = Adam
Green = Blake
Blue = Usher
Purple = Shakira

Judith Hill - Adam, defeated Karina

Jess Kellner - Usher, defeated Taylor

Midas Whale - Adam

Caroline Glaser - lost battle, stolen by Adam

Monique Abbadie - Shakira

Sasha Allen - lost battle, stolen by Shakira

Michelle Chamuel - Usher

Sarah Simmons - Adam

Christian Porter - Blake, eliminated during battles

Jessica Childress - Usher

Jeff Lewis - Usher, lost battle to Josiah

Jacqui Sandell - Blake

Karina Iglesius - lost in battle, stolen by Shakira

Holly Tucker - Blake, defeated Michelle

Garrett Gardner - Shakira, defeated J'Sun

Danielle Bradbery - Blake, defeated Caroline

Amber Carrington - Adam, defeated Sasha

Savannah Berry - Blake

Josiah Hawley - Usher, defeated Jeff

Audrey Karrasch - Usher, defeated Jamila

One epic battle really, the rest were alright. Not too surprising on who won.

Put Your Records On - Danielle Bradbery vs. Caroline Glaser


"but i want a big loaf of that..."

Okay, so I had Danielle on my top 20 but not high enough apparently.

She's crazy good and she's only 16.

It took me forever to figure it out, but it's Leanne Rimes!! That's who Danielle sounds like.

Drove me nuts for hours.

Granted I still like Caroline better (age 18) and I'm glad that Adam stole her.

and it amuses me that at the very end you can see adam holding his hand over the button ready to steal her.


No one wants to join Usher's team. Every time he tries to steal someone they go with the other coach.

But he's a hard ass, have you watched his coaching clips?

Kind of a jerk, don't blame them.

Plus Adam vs. Usher?

Seriously?

Gotta go with Adam, 24/7.

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



and check this one: having fun during some downtime during their battle