tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-231889932009-10-13T14:00:21.894-07:00Knurdness is... "The opposite of being drunk, it's as sober as you can ever be. It strips away all the illusion, all the comforting pink fog in which people normally spend their lives, and lets them see and think clearly for the first time ever. Then, after they've screamed a bit, they make sure they never get knurd again." (from "Sourcery" by Terry Pratchett)Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07515611177635606364noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23188993.post-69248496978548351772009-07-28T19:19:00.003-07:002009-07-28T19:24:34.804-07:00

Reading a book to little kids called Diary of a Fly, and having them mishear "diary" as "diarrhea," is not a funny enough story for me to have to listen to you retell it 45 times. Thank you.In other news, I may kill someone this week. Just a heads up. Because it could be you.

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Okay, not to detract from the seriousness of yesterday's post, but I'm fuming and I need to vent. My current boss is a complicated person; half of the time, I'd consider her one of my closest friends, because she's very funny and intelligent and is capable of being very kind. She's also, however, extremely fragile and brittle (emotionally, not physically), and has one of the worst tempers I've

Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07515611177635606364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23188993.post-63063370180328130712009-07-15T14:58:00.002-07:002009-07-15T15:12:46.858-07:00

Hey, for anybody who knows or remembers Sonnie Stock, the attendance secretary from SL high school, please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. Her husband passed away earlier this week, and I know she's got to be really hurting right now. Anyone who's ever met Sonnie knows just what a joy she is to be around, and how loving and caring a person she is; her husband, Frank, was also always a

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Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07515611177635606364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23188993.post-79793911830417665442008-11-17T12:08:00.003-07:002008-11-17T15:54:16.724-07:00

Wow, so six months, huh? Yikes, a lot has happened...My sister and I bought our first house.My grandpa passed away.My friend Diana's husband Tom passed away.My dad and stepmom bought a house in Gilbert (I think; somewhere in that part of the Valley, anyway...).I got about $5,000 worth of dental work done, and still have more to come (hadn't been to a dentist since my junior year of high school).

Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07515611177635606364noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23188993.post-61821352520731616202008-05-22T15:42:00.002-07:002008-05-22T16:11:48.876-07:00

...WTF?!?!?? Two freaking days ago Phoenix hit 110 Fahrenheit and we were in the low 90s, so all the snowbirds headed up the mountain (I can tell by the fact that you can't get into a doctor's office even if blood is pulsing from the stump of your severed arm; most of the snowbirds are OLD, and they make doctor's appointments if they have a hangnail). Now, out of the blue, it's freaking SNOWING

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...is teh suck. It just made our library's $700 color copier/printer into a very large paperweight, due to lack of driverage. Also, if it asks me one more fraking time to confirm a confirmation dialog, I will commit a murder. I'm not kidding this time; I'll do it!!!!!!1!!11

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(In case my last post didn't make it clear, ***SPOILER ALERT!!!***)With very few exceptions, the women of 7th Son represent a refuge, a place of safety and security. For instance, when we first meet John (who was the first clone to really make an impression on me; I listened to most of the series at work, so I missed a few things on my first pass through), he's in a place of perfect contentment

Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07515611177635606364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23188993.post-62585690324938923972008-05-08T12:30:00.004-07:002008-05-08T16:08:21.372-07:00

This is just something that's been rattling around in the back of my brain, stewing in its own juices for a year or so. It was sparked by a comment made in either a voicemail or just something J.C. said during a Clone Line segment in (I think?) book two about the lack of female characters in the 7th Son series.Now, yes, this is a very male-dominated series, but I have no problems with that for

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Okay, so one of the library's book suppliers (we'll call them Faker & Faylor, which is strangely appropriate...) just sent us a little flier with our last order, encouraging any libraries that were thinking of maybe switching over to electronic cataloging to email them and let them know so they could change our accounts over and stop sending us catalog cards.1. I checked my calendar, and it is

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Every time I start to get down in the dumps about the mess I've made of my life, I meet somebody who's had to overcome something so horrible it would probably kill me. In this case, a young lady came into the library a few months ago after some really bad things had happened to her, and I gave her a ride to the hospital. That's it, just a ten minute car ride for me, but she just called me today

Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07515611177635606364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23188993.post-48865701353969932182008-04-09T16:44:00.002-07:002008-05-06T13:19:41.258-07:00

Well, that last entry went off on a tangent, didn't it? Of course, that's one of the things I love the most about the surge in geek culture over recent years; we're much more free to do that kind of thing, without getting quite as many weird looks.I can still remember wandering around the edges of the playground in elementary school, basically a social outcast (though I tell myself that it was

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They're finally here! At last, 14 months after I pre-ordered them, my BSG dog tags are here, and boy are they cool. I mean, I knew they'd be fairly awesome, but these little beauties have surpassed my wildest expectations, and are well worth the wait. Each set of two came in a little blister pack with a chain and a card (I haven't been able to bring myself to open the blister packs, so I don't

Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07515611177635606364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23188993.post-64599974090356534552008-04-04T15:21:00.002-07:002008-05-06T13:20:18.120-07:00

It's time for a reality check (Kero-chan check!!!). I have a loving, supportive family (even if they do occasionally drive me nuts), a steady job with great benefits and decent pay, two really cute cats (even if they also occasionally drive me nuts), I live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth, my car is working, I'm fairly healthy, the sun is shining, I got a big box of new manga in the

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Okay, wow. I just got totally slammed out of nowhere. Did not see that one coming, and wouldn't have known it would hurt so much if I had. I feel like the last three and a half years of my life just got ripped out from under me with very little warning...It goes like this: I work in a public library, but I'm not a degreed librarian. I'm what's known as a technical assistant, sort of the

Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07515611177635606364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23188993.post-56072371119424636732008-02-21T13:59:00.000-07:002008-05-06T13:21:39.524-07:00

Which TV Villain Are You? More on Supernatural. Created by BuddyTV

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...this riot probably wouldn't even have made the news here in the U.S. otherwise:It's kind of a sad commentary on our insularity and isolationism, that 150,000 people could riot and the only hook the reporter could think of was that they'd set a small fire in one room of our embassy (the sensationalism of the headline notwithstanding). But while it's popular to act as if this kind of behavior

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Who is Your Ideal TV Boyfriend?Created by BuddyTV

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Which Heroes Character Are You?Created by BuddyTV

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Which Battlestar Galactica Character Are You?Created by BuddyTV

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I recently saw a discussion on a certain well-known library mailing list (*cough* publib *cough*), complaining that certain members of the younger generation (we twentysomethings and our younger siblings) are too softspoken and don't enunciate well enough. Now, I don't immediately think this is due to the age or hearing of the person doing the asking, as I've noticed the same trend myself. The

Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07515611177635606364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23188993.post-44786359032185816672007-12-18T10:39:00.000-07:002008-05-06T13:24:40.830-07:00

I was just catching up on a new podcast, Girls Gone Geek, and in episode 2 they mentioned this site, http://www.weeworld.com, where you can design a little South Park-style avatar called a WeeMee. Here's mine; I think she's pretty cute. ;)P.S. If you join and want to add me as a friend, just email me at my yahoo account; my ID is kiristrial.

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I don't want to tell you the name of this game. As soon as I do, you're going to make certain assumptions, and anything I say after that will go in one ear and out the other (in one eye...?). So, for the moment, I'm going to refer to it as The Fish Game. (No, it has nothing whatsoever to do with fish, swimming, or water. Well, maybe a little...) This game is one of a series of fairly

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Guests of Honor will include Terry Pratchett, Esther Freisner, Diane Duane, and Peter Morwood, and it's actually taking place within MY STATE (nothing happens here...)!!! There is so much awesome packed into this con, I don't know if I can handle it, and every time I hear a new rumor it gets EVEN BETTER. It's a good thing I have two years to get used to the idea, LOL!

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6. My job.In the end, I think the best thing we can say about our lives is that we got to make someone happy. That's one of the things I love the most about my job; I am, in all senses of the phrase, a public servant. Now, being a servant has kind of a negative connotation to most people in the US, I think mostly because we've deluded ourselves into thinking that being "equal before the law"

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