Important Question

Why isn't there an option on the leave form for Bad Hair Leave?

NPR and the Holy Bible, or, Never Say Never

If you look at this site with any regularity, you may have noticed the contents of the "Currently Enjoying" sidebar are pretty static these days. I should just change the contents to read NPR and The Bible, since that's about all I'm listening to and reading these days (discounting Pandora.com, which I'm playing in the office).

How did this come about, you ask? I can't explain the NPR bit. I never thought I would end up an NPR listener (nothing at all wrong with NPR, just wasn't my style), but here I am. The music station I sometimes listen to interviews stand-up comics all morning, so one day I happened upon NPR, and here I am.

As for the Bible, by the time I get through reading for the next Sunday School lesson, I'm too tired to read anything else. Again, nothing at all wrong with the Bible, but I'd like to someday get back to the other books I've put aside.

Taking Pleasure in Small Things

It's Saturday and I'm at work. But I'm going to happy about what I can:

Saw this morning that ULTA is coming to Murfreesboro! And I already knew about Barnes and Noble going into the same shopping center. How lucky that I just told ULTA to change my mailing address, even though I thought I had no current use for their coupons.

I may be at work, but I'm also tapping my toes to Sheryl Crow Radio on Pandora.com, radio from the Music Genome Project (thanks, Amy!). Check it out for yourself--you can build your own radio station starting with an artist or song you like, and Pandora will play music with similar characteristics. Here are the stations I loaded yesterday. Can you fill in the blanks?

Sheryl Crow Radio
G _ _ _ _ _ _ W_ _ _ _ Radio
C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Radio
L _ _ _ L _ _ _ _ _ Radio

Forthcoming, Or, One of These Things is Not Like the Others

T is for Trespass - Sue Grafton - Dec 4

World Without End - Ken Follett - Oct 9

Candy Cane Murder - Joanne Fluke et al. - Sept 25

Bones to Ashes - Kathy Reichs - Aug 28

Monday with a Mad Genius - Mary Pope Osborne - Aug 28

Sweet Revenge - Diane Mott Davidson - Aug 21

The Fun is Over

Well, I hope all of the fun isn't over. The relaxing summer, however, is definitely over. School starts again in two weeks, and I'm already feeling mildly panicked over everything I need to have done.

First up is training on Wednesday for other people in my department on how to use the "clickers" to deliver the library instruction for University Seminar classes. That wouldn't be so bad if I already had the instruction presentation updated and modified for a shorter class period, but I don't. So why, you ask, am I blogging instead of working?

Good Question!


photo: Donaghue, V. (1940). September - back to work - back to school - back to BOOKS. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, WPA Poster Collection, [LC-USZC2-5218 DLC].
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Status Report

Current Location: office
Chapters read in Deathly Hallows: 25
Remaining visits with fitness coach: 1(!)
Listening to: Simon & Garfunkel Old Friends Disc 1 (thanks A1!)
Just finished eating: jumbo hot dog (impulse purchase at Women in Computer Science bakesale)
Pounds lost during wellness program: -3
Ounces of Diet Coke consumed so far today: 30
Working on: identifying possible competitors for a proposed book project. Gotta love WorldCat.
Temperature outside: 99 degrees F
Temperature in office: 73 degrees F
Table fan speed: Medium
Looking forward to: December

Auntie K is Smiling

She's smiling wide. She just placed a pre-order for It's Not Big It's Large, Lyle Lovett's new studio album. To take advantage of free shipping, she threw in The Very Best of the Eagles. Yeah, I know, I only save $4 on free shipping and the second cd is more than $4, but don't rain on my parade, ok?

I just get all tingly and happy thinking about a new Lyle Lovett cd. And by September 4, when it's slated to arrive, I'll probably be needing all the tingly and happy I can get.

Now only if Lyle would play in Nashville soon...

A Quiz Winner

And the gold star goes to...

my (anonymous) mother, for correctly identifying L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables as the source of this quotation:

"This child had taken and lost her treasured amethyst brooch and now sat there calmly without the least apparent compunction or repentance."

How appropriate, since it was by reading my mother's copy that I first learned to love that book, and it was my same dear mother who drove me to the public library to read all the sequels.

Well done!