Okay, this is a big confession of dorkiness and maybe a touch of OCD. I’ve been feeling very inspired today–side-effect of the great workday yesterday and some super productivity today as well. But you can forget that except for the word “inspired.” Sometimes I play a game called Text Twist. It started in college with…
Busy Bee Me
I wanted to be a librarian because education and a love of reading are both things I believe in. I also wanted to have a career that would be low-stress in hopes that I’d be able to stick with it for many years. Funnily enough, the lack of pressure to perform is exactly what bothers…
Hello, my name is…
It’s been a long couple of days, and last night’s late trip to the grocery store was the perfect “laugh at yourself” cap to the weekend. I walked purposefully into the store in an oversized sweatshirt, my favorite jeans, and some comfy boots–classic weekend wear that doesn’t usually attract attention. Despite the don’t-look-at-me garb, people…
Might Need That Someday
I feel like someone was cleaning out my brain this morning and threw away a few important items in the process.
Taking Dinner Up a Notch
Okay, I think about cooking a lot more than I should. I don’t actually cook that much, but I love food. Also, I get some weirdly similar joy out of cookbooks and romance novel blurbs (just the blurbs). People say things that sound so utterly absurd to me. Reading a few sentences from either type…
Time for Clocky
Nobody likes a passive aggressive alarm clock.
Goodbye, Good Reads Challenge!
Soon after starting my job in February, I joined some co-workers and their friends in a reading challenge. It sounded like fun. I am, after all, a librarian with a competitive streak. What could possibly go wrong with something that combines those two things? I started reading and filling in categories (a book over 700…
Small, but valuable. 