tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-231889932012-02-16T05:45:02.097-07:00Knurdness 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.comBlogger681100tag: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

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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

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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

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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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Since next week's big holiday is all about being thankful for the things we have, I thought I'd try to blog one thing each day I'm personally grateful for.7. My car.This may seem a little materialistic of me, but without reliable transportation I'd never have gotten my job, much less kept it. I just live too far away to walk, and the bus ride would take, at minimum, 1 1/2 hours because of how

Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07515611177635606364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23188993.post-31086440590861298852007-11-14T16:05:00.000-07:002007-11-14T16:06:53.310-07:00

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We HATES them, Preciousss. Mostly because they dupe the new circ clerk into letting them check out R-rated comic books, then rip the barcodes off of them (which is usually step one in stealing them, but is sometimes just random vandalism), then freaking LIE about it. And this one's one of the GOOD kids. Of course, I've had a bit of a grudge against this particular teen ever since I loaned them

Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07515611177635606364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23188993.post-54353745883875221632007-11-01T11:14:00.000-07:002008-05-06T13:32:21.668-07:00

Okay, so November is NaNoWriMo, and I've decided to finally break down and actually do this writing thing I've been saying is my dream since junior high. I've set a pretty modest goal to start with: 500 words per weekday, 1,000 words on Saturdays and Sundays. As of last night (day 2), I'm at 1,074 words and counting. Let's see how this goes...I'm also going to Tweet my daily word counts, in the

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...of my bone folder; it's just that I have very tiny little fat baby hands, and it's hard for me to find one that I can get a good grip on (real bone only; synthetics are crap) but that isn't too huge. And since it's the tool I use the most often every single day, it's kind of important to me. I'm sorry if that makes me seem like a crazy person, but there you go.Or, to put it another way (with

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Sis: Tell me you put the trash out. And that you remembered Lappy.[note: I promised to bring her laptop with me to work and finish an iTunes download for her yesterday, and so of course waltzed right out the front door without it, and was given much grief.]Me: Lappy yes, trash no. :(Sis: Yea Lappy, crap trash. My bad, i forgot.Me: They may not even pick it up today, anyway; did you see the Road

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And then there are this season's new shows. Now, I developed extremely high hopes for Bionic Woman as soon as I found out that Katee Sackhoff would be a recurring guest star, but I have yet to see one single scene in that show that made me feel anything beyond a desire to go to bed early. I am glad that I suffered through, though, or I never would have discoveredLifeOn paper, this sounds like a

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You know, there are days, whole weeks even, when I wouldn't mind if my TV broke and I never got it fixed. The constant, booming chatter, the flashing, glaring lights, and the near-complete lack of even mildly interesting content make my head hurt, to be honest. There are a few shows, though, that keep me coming back to the (in more ways than one; stay with me here) open sewer that is modern

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Okay, I know that this concept originally referred to people and their feelings (go read Fight Club, or at least watch the movie, if you don't know what I'm talking about), but in this case I'm referring to library books.At some point in our institutional history, we picked up this image of a mean old lady, usually an old maid, who spends every waking hour caressing her books like a miser with

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Okay, this actually happened back in August, but I didn't get it blogged then, so you get to see it now:Today's topic: Midichlorians vs. MitochondriaDuration: 0.5 hoursFrustration level: 7Which is real? Which sucks? Why are the fake ones an incredibly lame plot device? Or are they, as some...people believe, completely realistic, and add a great deal to the "fantasy" feeling of Star Wars [

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Today's topic: Can you edit a Word document to take out unwanted blank lines and page breaks?Duration: 1.5 hoursFrustration level: 2Every month, our library software runs circulation reports for statistical purposes. We're on a shared system with the rest of the county, so sometimes these reports cough up seemingly weird or nonsensical data, and we have no direct control over many of the

Kendrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07515611177635606364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23188993.post-6470319425121337132007-09-19T17:16:00.000-07:002008-05-06T13:33:40.275-07:00

My pirate name is: Dirty Jenny Bonney You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr! Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.part of the fidius.org

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So, it's a funny world. There are people all around us, living their own lives and dealing with their own problems. The chances of actually connecting with any of these people are pretty slim, but sometimes those connections actually happen, whether through a mutual acquaintance or blind chance. To me, those connections are the entire purpose of life; along with our selves (knowledge,

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...to becoming a serial killer. I cannot STAND people who feel the need to make decisions about everything, whether the issue concerns them in any way or not. Let me give you an example:I'm standing in our break room, making hot chocolate. I'm in a pretty good mood, because the day's going okay so far, and hey, chocolate that's hot, how cool is that? I plug in my little electric kettle to

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"I can hear nonlibrary folks now saying, 'Problems? What kind of problems could those library workers have? They just sit around and read most of the time.' If only the library field was as peaceful as outsiders envisioned it..."The reality of library work is different. No facility in the nation hosts a more diverse collection of people on a daily basis. We have entrepreneurs, preschoolers,

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Okay, so Sunshine by Robin McKinley: wow. Like all of her books, every time I read this one, I am more in love with the character than ever before. There's just something about Sunshine (a.k.a. Rae Seddon, a.k.a. Raven Blaise) that is incredibly real and compelling. From start to finish, you're so involved in her world you can smell the cinnamon rolls (Sunshine is the baker at her family's

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I remember spending summers at my grandparents' house; it seemed like we went down there for months every year, but it was probably only a few weeks. They've lived in Sierra Vista, south of Tucson, AZ, since my mom was a teenager; I remember fooling around out in their yard, trying to squeeze between this one cactus and the fence, picking Juniper berries and squishing them on the stepping stones

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Okay, I am moving the graphic novels away from my office right fracking NOW. Those little weirdos have started pretending to browse through them, while they're really staring at me through the window and commentating on everything I do! Somebody remind me why I think a youth program is a good idea...oh, yeah. Right. :P

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Wow, I went to a workshop today on youth participation in libraries, and I am so stoked. I want to go start rounding up teenagers right now for a teen advisory group; I even have a few names in mind who I think will really enjoy it.I think we could be a positive influence for some of these kids instead of just a hangout (although being a hangout isn't entirely bad; if the choice is to either

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(Okay, so it was really back on the 26th. Sue me.)There's something pretty powerful in the notion of a man stepping completely outside the bounds of what most of us consider "normal" life to do something he thought needed doing. The fact that it was planting apple trees all over the place (which on reflection makes the phrase "bug nuts" float through my mind) is purely coincidental. Most of us

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Battlestar Galactica is the best show on television today (and maybe ever). I never thought I'd see the day when something not only beat out Firefly on my personal list, but left it eating dust (although, I'm virtually certain that if the-network-which-must-not-be-named hadn't killed it in season one, Firefly would probably be neck-and-neck with BSG; with time for the actors to grow into their

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Bleargh. Is there anything worse than coming to work sick? Especially when you do some variety of customer service. My coughs save themselves up until there are ten moms in line with their little kids and then *BAM*. The coughing fit to end all coughing fits. The coughs also enjoy knocking down little old ladies and scaring their tiny, frail husbands into heart attacks. (I am such a hit at

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In other news, I've discovered two great new podcasts: Slice of SciFi and GeeksOn. Slice is set up very much like a professional radio show (probably because Michael and Evo, the two main hosts, are in fact professional radio people), while GeeksOn is much more free-form.At first glance, Slice is a much better, more polished program all around; it has great guest hosts (I love Summer Brooks and

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So, yeah. This summer was insanely busy for us here at the library; we lost one person for most of it because she was out on maternity leave, and her temporary replacement, while a really neat lady who did a great job, still had to be trained right in the middle of what's already our busiest season due to the fact that the population we serve doubles (and sometimes triples) as the retirees come

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Take the quiz at dicepool.com

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Okay, here's the two versions of the avatar I made for the forums over at The Order of the Stick. I think I like the first one better; even though the colors in the second are closer to my original bitmap (the OOTS forum avatars have to be .gif or .jpg), it's less grainy and distorted than the second. Oh well...

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Did you think that one up all on your own, or did you need help?:P

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1. Phone calls (both making them and getting them)2. Spiders3. The Mary Kay lady4. Watching third graders handle library books5. Saying "No" to the Mary Kay lady6. Public speaking7. Dealing with all six other problems simultaneously, with a smile on my face, because I'm at work and I have to at least pretend to be "professional"

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Okay, so my PS2 is dying a slow, horrible death; right now, it will only read blue or purple discs, which means I've been playing a LOT of Gauntlet: Dark Legacy lately. I'm talking about at least two hours a day for the last few weeks (although even I cannot compare with a certain incredible loser) . So, by the time I had beaten Garm with the Archer, Tigress, Valkyrie, Sorceress, and was

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"Never wear anything that panics the cat." P. J. O'Rourke

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So, the first thing I did this morning when I got to work was drop my lunch on the kitchen floor and spill half of my lasagna. :( :(The second thing I did was gouge a huge chunk of skin out of my finger with my own finger nail, just by being careless.Third, I read this article in Newsweek that my coworker showed me, and got scared out of my mind...

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Okay, let's talk about the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. I've got kind of mixed feelings about this one, because I love it so much, but for about two or three books there, I was bored stupid. The story was still great, the characters fantastic, but there was so much exposition. (This is exactly why I stopped reading Terry Brooks; his books could - and darn well should - be about half

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you Danish clown.

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Do you know how hard it is to insult you if you won't respond to my childis- I mean, my sincere, heartfelt remarks?Dang hard, that's how.Okay, not really. We all know that's a lie.But as fun as it is to make verbal attacks on a target who appears to be completely ignoring us (and it is!), it's really hard to start an actual flame war with them.So get cracking. Make with the funny, Stinky Feet.

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I read Blade Dancer by S.L. Viehl a few days ago, and it was one of the best things I've encountered in years. While the whole "asassin school" thing isn't really a new concept in sci-fi, and the plot itself ended rather predictably, there were some true surprises and twists, and one or two real shockers throughout the course of the story. The characters were good and solid, easily

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It's not my fault all of the beauty, talent, and brains in our particular gene pool floated in my direction instead of yours. I like to think of you as the practice run, and I'm the perfected final product.=^_^=

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I just started The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold, and it's so good!! I had resisted reading her for years (I couldn't really tell you why, she just seemed kind of boring until I actually read her), but this might turn into one of my favorite books pretty quickly. The main character, Cazaril, is extremely likeable for me. I can believe in him as a human being much more easily than I

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Talk about your nutty weather!!! Our whole region of Arizona was buried under about two feet of snow over last weekend. It was the worst storm I've seen since I was like six years old, and it just came out of nowhere! Of course, even though it basically paralyzed the entire White Mountains for about three days, most of us are pretty grateful. We've had some terrible fires over the last few

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...that you're being stared at by a pack of hungry wolves, your every movement scrutinized and held up to some internal, instinctive standard of fight vs. flight, waiting for that one uncertain glance or scent of fear that tells the pack you're prey?No?Well, then you've never worked in a public library with seven computers and thirteen people waiting in line for their turn to stare blankly at a

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So sleepy. Is there anything worse than that first hour or so of work every morning? I feel like my face is melting off because it's so heavy, and I really, really wish my ears would stop popping.On the up side, my boss's dog is here today; Molly's a redbone coonhound, so she's pretty big to be lurking in a library, but she's been really sick lately and her mom worries. :) She's also a total

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I am in such a Firefly/Serenity mood right now, it's not even funny. I've spent half the day over on the TWoP archives reading recaps of the episodes I watched with my sister last night, and it was all I could do not to spend a few hundred dollars over on CafePress buying various related items.And yes, I am a link geek. Along with several other flavors. You'll get used to it. :)

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