…was my reaction to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I did like seeing Mos Def and Bill Nighy. I also thought the knitting bit was hilarious. Rose Read has been collecting Marvin patterns.

Well, my Mom and my little sister and my stepfather are in the Boston area scoping out east coast colleges. Today we went to two major attractions of Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Filene’s Basement. The Gardner museum was stuffed full of so much stuff, I started feeling a little dizzy after walking [...]

I blogged a bit about the new Inside Higher Ed site before, and I was surprised to see a comment on my old post from the editor of the Chronicle explaining that the Chronicle isn’t offering less free content than in the past. It was really the vanishing of the Site Sampler link and [...]

I’m both inspired by and ripping off Dorian:
6:30 Wake up, am amazed that I have woken up so early. Went to bed at 1:00 last night. This is early for me (I am a night person, and really need to train myself to get to bed than 2 am).
6:35 I get coffee and cereal, [...]

Mr. Tangognat and I got back from NYC last night. It was a quick trip, and we did a few things but didn’t try to pack tons and tons of activities into each day. We were staying right around the corner from Carnege Hall. We ate tons of good Jewish deli food and cheesecake. We [...]

But not much going on at the reference desk tonight, where I mediated a dispute about classroom space, gently informed someone that their ice cream bar stub violated the library’s no food policy after answering their reference question, troubleshot issues with usb drives, and answered someone who called me “M’am.”
Later this week Mr. Tangognat and [...]

If you have any recommendations for Playstation 2 games, send them my way!

What is my ipod trying to tell me?
1. All for Swinging Your Arms, The New Pornographers
2. End of a Century, Blur
3. Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog, Johnny Cash
4. Song for the Dead, Queens of the Stone Age
5. Elephant Stone, Stone Roses
6. Ghost Town, The Specials
7. Stephanie Says, The Velvet Underground
8. Moment’s Notice, John Coltrane
9. Goldberg [...]

Because of the way the wind blew the snowdrift in back of my house, my car is gone. I can’t see any part of it, just a giant white lump. That’s not going to be fun to shovel out.

I’m just starting to get over a truely hideous cold that I caught shortly after ALA. I don’t know what happened — either librarians are horribly infectious or I was spending too much time walking around in the cold and riding public transportation. I spent Thursday and Friday lying on my couch, napping, coughing, and [...]