Is when you get home from work, and you’ve got a box of comics and a package of yarn at your doorstep

In one of those “only in Utah” moments, my husband and I were driving to get some yummy middle eastern food today when a couple motercycle cops stopped traffic to let a large group of people (some of them dressed like pioneers) cross the street, with handcarts loaded with a ton of boxes. I noticed […]

The man formerly known as the future Mr. TangognaT is now Mr. TangognaT, as we were married last Friday. We had a nice Buddhist wedding with a chuppa. My little sister got to run around spritzing the guests with wisdom water as part of a purification ritual, and my Dad officiated the ceremony. Mr. TangognaT […]

I’m in Illinois knee deep in wedding preparations. Some random wedding details you might enjoy:
I put together wedding favors in sessions with my sisters as we are watching season two Deadwood. It seems a little odd to be tying ribbon on fans while watching a saloon owner struggle with bladder stones, but that’s how we […]

I made it to Salt Lake City and we unloaded the Uhaul trailer and everything. Now I’m living in a sea of boxes. Time to unpack!

Despite the horrible rain in Massachusetts, the future Mr. Tangognat and I were able to pack up my apartment yesterday and start our trip out west. We actually have a little bit of space in the uhaul trailer because I shipped almost all of by books media mail and a ton of other stuff by […]

Things at my apartment are in this state of limbo where some things are packed, and everything else is chaos.
The hallway:

When there are no more books on the bookshelves, the bobbleheads and action figures are lonely:

Boxes:

More boxes:

I’m NOT going to have these rose petals at my wedding. Has the world gone mad? What person needs to have their names and faces printed on rose petals? There will also be NO wedding bubblegum buddies or wedding themed toilet paper, NO bride and groom frisbee, and NO mini-bales of hay.

MangaBlog continues to do a great job gathering together all the stories about the removal of Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics from the San Bernardino County Library system. I’m surprised that so far we haven’t seen any commentary from library oriented publications about the removal process, which seems a little irregular to me. Well, […]

I taught my last 2 classes today. I’m spending a bunch of time now documenting things and finishing projects. I’ve thrown out a surprising amount of paper I was keeping in my files - just stuff for my personal use, the next person who has my job is going to inherit a few legacy files […]