Monthly Archives: January 2005

1. Spike TV is having a Star Trek movie marathon tomorrow, starting at 9am. I want to play hooky and watch this. 2. I’ve had Food TV on almost all day today. Not because there’s anything interesting on, but to … Continue reading →

Friday night a fellow librarian and I went to see “In Good Company” at the theater. It was a good movie, and I liked the ending a lot. There was a lot of growth-as-a-person stuff that was well handled, and … Continue reading →

Prep time: 7.5 hrs Start by flexing the afternoon off (yes, I take my half days on Wednesdays or other days in the middle of the week sometime. It’s a guilty pleasure, so there.) Think about how you’d like to … Continue reading →

I was going through the checkout at the grocery store earlier tonight, when the clerk picked up my two packages of… feminine products, and asked, “Did it come early?” “Pardon?” “Are you early? Or,” she leans in, “are you late?” … Continue reading →

I love serendipity. Witness… 1) On Saturday night, between the end of Battlestar Galactica and SNL, I flipped to Food TV. Last Monday, I’d happened to catch the original Iron Chef, and have been hooked into watching Nigella Bites at … Continue reading →

YES!!!!! Amazon.ca sent me an email tonight letting me know that they’ve finally shipped the book I ordered last May! I’m so happy, I could dance! Update: I couldn’t find the original post where I talked about wanting to read … Continue reading →

Sorry the posting here was light over the weekend. It wasn’t for lack of things to write about because heaven knows my life outside work provides me with such rich fodder to write about. No, it was one of those … Continue reading →

Tricoteuses Sans Frontières/Knitters Without Borders You’re probably wondering what that button to the right is all about (or maybe you haven’t noticed and I’m drawing it to your attention now). It all started after the tragedy in Southeast Asia when … Continue reading →

The overall verdict was that it was better than both Wicked and Englishman, although it was a bit slow. There were parts we liked, and parts that weren’t believable, and parts we didn’t understand how they fit into the overall … Continue reading →

Hi! Wait… I just remembered something…. I’ll get to it in a minute… So we had book club last night (I’ll write about the results in a sec – that’s what I remembered), and we finally got around to firming … Continue reading →