Not wearing a watch w/ the date on it means I keep almost missing b-days:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY uufarmgirl!!!!!

Hehhe, someone mistyped and wrote "Google Scholars" instead of "Google Scholar" in a request and now I can't get the image of all these corduroy-panted-elbow-patched-pipe-smoking itty bitty scholars living in a library in my computer and rapidly flipping through books whenever I look something up....

I keep waffling about getting a new computer. I technically don't _need_ one yet. But my iBook is 5 years old now, and he's definitely slowing down and struggling with even things like webpages. But technically he's ok. But, I'm pretty sure he's going to die soon, and I have never had the luxury of replacing a non-dead computer, and that honestly sounds attractive. But, it'll like completely wipe out my savings, as I haven't actually planned ahead and saved up. Unless a buy a Mini, but I don't really want a Mini. I should want a Mini because it'd be fine for what I do, but still. And if I start lessons, rebuilding my savings after buying a machine will be SLOW.

But, shiny new computer that doesn't take 5 min to load _amazon_!!

ARGH!

ETA - I assume most of you know that I will only buy a Mac, so I don;t expect any head scratching over how buying a machine will wipe out my bank account ;) And no, I won't consider not buying a Mac.

Dairy Milk from Australia!!

OMG! It's shaped like Freddo the Frog!!!! FANTASTIC!! I shall bite off his head!!

ALWAYS MONDAY!!

On my drive in, I saw 3 deer in one of Verrill's fields, calmly nibbling away on whatever was growing behind the tomato plants! One looked fairly young - at least much smaller than the other two. They're so pretty.

Speaking of plants, I finally got a tomato cage for my cucumber plant - he doesn't look too happy about being in it, but I think he'll be happier in the long run - at least the cukes won't rot on the ground, if any manage to grow. Maybe the fact that only ONE day this week is supposed to have any chance of rain will mean both it and the tomato plants will finally get some sun.

Dh's party on Sat. was pretty good, though I may have slightly alarmed a few people by telling them how hosting parties terrifies me. I hope they didn't take it to mean I didn't want them there - I love seeing people, it's just that until the party really gets going, I'm always worried everyone thinks the party sucks and is ready to dash out 10 min after arriving.

The highlight of the party? COOKIE PUSS!! A Cookie Puss that demanded a 45 min drive (thanks to 3 accidents on 495) to pick up...! But he was worth it. All hail Cookie Puss!!

And now work. Tomorrow I start training on the e-resource troubleshooting. Whee?

Aww!! DH, before the party started.

I am posting solely to use my new icon, which I like to call "Look! I CAN haz boobies!!" I need more of those bras, I think....

I don't see how this was hard, and I bet most of you won't either:

the "Hardest Harry Potter Quiz Ever"

Hah! All that worry for no reason - the instructor called to reschedule my lesson, as her dog ripped out his stitches and she needs to bring him in, so I'm now rescheduled for Tuesday. So expect more worry then ;)

I guess now I have no excuse to try to make Dh mow the lawn tonight ;)

I may or may not have just run away from a patron.


(he came to InfoPoint while I was there and spent 30 min telling me and one of my coworkers about his research, and not taking "it's a copyright violation" as reason for not being able to download an ebook onto a cd. And generally just not shutting up while not asking any sort of questions we could really help him with. So when I just saw him in the stacks heading toward me, I scurried and ducked into the staff room. I'm 99.9% sure he didn't notice me before my scurry. I just could not deal w/ him and his lectures on Japan/Russia again!)

We've all now gotten the same v-mail 3x each day for 3 days telling us that they're updating the v-mail system, but that nothing will change and they just wanted to let us know. Apparently they _really_ wanted to let us know.

And now the latest msg won't delete.

Ah, technology! Hehhee.

Neat - this Spec Coll book has a little sticker in it that says "From the Estate of Eleanor Roosevelt" and the inscription is to Roosevelt himself from the author!!

Also, my reputation for being interested in everything and willing to help out has gotten me involved in e-resource trouble shooting, w/ the promise that "we'll ease you into working in the Unix environment" - egads! How did I end up with this? Ah well - it should be interesting, I guess!

Getting more and more nervous about my lesson. I am such a stupid girl. I have no reason to be nervous - I'm not afraid of telling instructors that I don't comfortable doing something just yet, and the instructor I have tonight has been nothing but nice and friendly. Jeez, what the hell is wrong w/ me?!

FINALLY!!!!

I am SO tired. So, so tired. Like, I thought I was tired before, but this is showing me that that was nothing and now I know tired. I think the stress of our dept director being laid off has finally caught up w/ me. Ugh. Cathy told me when I walked in that I look like I haven't slept in a month. Great.

Now in addition to the huge butterflies I've been having all week about my lesson tonight, I will have to add butterflies due to worry I'll fall asleep midway through and fall off ;P

My annual last night went fine, despite them being insanely busy and getting put into a "procedure" room because no exam room was free. That was a bit disturbing. And then the NP tripped over the cord to the light and broke the light, so she was fumbling about blind while doing the pap...! Ok, not blind - she had a penlight and said she could see everything. She did offer to move us, but I was not wandering the halls in the gown while we tried to find a new room!! Anyway, that's over for the year, thank goodness. The only part that always bothers me is seeing the damn little brushy thingy that they use to collect the cells for the pap - that thing freaks me out! It looks like it should be for cleaning grout, not swiping my cervix, thank you.

Way too much to do to get ready for Sat night - I think I will just stay at work until then and let Dh clean the house, mow the law, trim the bushes so they don;t attack people, bake the cake, and go shopping. He won't mind, right?

Argh! There's been a water main break in town (which is what I drove by just now, I think) and now I can't 1)shower before my annual or 2) do laundry so I will have to go to work naked tomorrow.

Great.

(the msg said they expect the repair to "take most of the day" - ARGH!)

This Spec Coll truck hasn't been as exciting as past ones, as everything's from the 1920s (no 1507 book on this truck!) but I just came across a 1929 edition of "More 'Very Young' Songs" by Milne! It's super-cute - the temp instructions are things like "happily" or "quietly, like after supper" and, my fave, "in moderate time, like a beetle."

AWWW!!

(Dh, if we do take him, can we name him Ollivander?)

Wow, ok, blowing your numb nose is quite a funny experience!!

I failed to find a straw but am risking coffee anyway - hopefully the small opening in my travel mug will protect me!

And for other news, I am back from the dentist and my leaky tooth is fixed! Whee! And I have a numb upper lip and nose. Whee!! But it was like the quickest appt ever and I only got to work 30 min later than usual, so I got a parking spot in the normal lot! Yay! And now I get to leave at 3pm today and tomorrow since I saved up extra time this week, as I expected the appt. to take longer than it did.

My trial lesson at North Gate is tomorrow and I alternate between being crazy excited and crazy anxious! AHHHH!!

ETA: the dentist told me to not drink anything hot for a couple hours, because of The Numb - I'd spill it all over myself. So now I am going crazy because I didn't have any coffee beforehand, so as not to have to pee like mad midway through! Maybe I can find a straw....

I am not going to apologize for my original post yesterday - I stand by my opinion that the dad handled his screaming toddler in the library in not the best way. I do want to apologize to anyone who misinterpreted anything I said or any other comment, and who felt hurt or upset or attacked - I did not mean for that to happen, and I am very sorry if you were hurt.

I do, however, also want to say that I was really hurt by the many of you who took anything I said as proof that I hate kids - I can't believe that some of you don't know me well enough to know how untrue that is, and that really upset me.

Anyway, I do apologize and I hope no one will continue to feel horrible about anything that was said.