February 2011
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I've been drinking green tea to get better faster,...
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#6: Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos
Ah, my first re-read of 2011. This one has become a sick day go-to for me, for the days when I need light, quick fiction and I need it bad.
After goggling it occasionally on dates to Borders over several years (what? what did your courtship look like?), I finally found a cheap copy of Love Walked In at the Bibb County Friends of the Library book sale one year (an event I continue to miss now that...
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Is that a book you got there?
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Read: How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff
Reading: Letters of C.S. Lewis and The New Monasticism by Jonathan Wilson-Hargrave
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#5: How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff
So, I’m almost to spring break and I’ve started a lot but finished nothing since that worthy housekeeping manual nearly a month ago. This was a busy week in a busy semester, and I’ve been feeling restless and disgruntled the way I can when I’m not excited about anything I’m reading — particularly distressing if you are too busy to read because you’re working to...
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Me: I got my first promo in the mail addressed to me. It's corny, but I am kind of excited.
Mike: Just wait for the excitement of throwing away your first promo.
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multiculturalism
Co-worker: I'm about to go get something to eat. But I'll be back, inshallah. You know what I mean?
Me: Sure. God willing and the creek don't rise.
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tug-a-lu asked: Shouldn't I be able to go to the recipe when I click on the highlighted word "recipe?" I'd like to check it out.
Sounds yummy-licious.
Sounds yummy-licious.
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Scholastic: 25 Best Websites for Teachers →
librarianpirate:
positivelypersistentteach:
Worth a look. Some of these I have been using for a while, but others I did not know about.
I’m really loving scholastic today!
Good for librarians too!
For Colleen and all my other teacher friends.
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Tanzania at 15 m.p.h. →
“THE sun is sinking, the air is cooling and our legs are pumping up and down, powering us toward a horizon unbroken by a cellphone tower, a house or even a fence. I’m looking over the bicycle’s handlebars at the veld unfurling in front of me - the baobab trees in bloom, the hawks circling, a miniskyline of anthills rising in the distance, thinking that 15 miles per hour is about...
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me: my boss just brought me swedish fish
Beca: those are not even good
me: everything's good at the reception desk. it has magical properties
Beca: i remember sitting with will once and he'd just polished off an entire box of swedish fish and said, in that monotnous voice of his, fuck, i don't even like these fucking fish
yet he ate the whole box
me: ha!
Beca: see? why can't i make and market a product like that?
Beca: something completely lacking in sustenance, flavor or originality
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an open letter to madeleine l'engle →
Are you a deity? Am I to be your prophet? How would that work exactly?
Bahahaha!
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Looking out the window of the W.E.B. DuBois...
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“So we know you can cook a steak with a cast iron skillet, great. You know what...”
– Here’s Why You Need A Cast Iron Skillet | The Awl (via jenny-jenny-bo-benny)
Relevant to my plans for the night.
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WatchUnbelievably cool Citizen Archive Project combining technology donations, training, and the capturing of distinctive culture and language in Eastern Africa. I want to bring this back to our Bakonjo friends stat.
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“The God who is three persons in community creates humanity in the image of...”
– Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today’s Church
(enjoying this mightily)
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Circulation librarian: That's a pretty ring you've got there. That an engagement ring?
Me: Oh, yeah. ...And a wedding ring, too.
Circ librarian: Girl, you look 18! ... Of course, 18 year olds can get married, too.
Me [with great dignity]: I am 25.
(That's right. I'm tough, even if I am occasionally mistaken for a Mary Engelbreit illustration.)
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What Are You Reading?
librarianpirate:
half-pint:
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Starting a new book tonight. I just picked up the following from the library so it will probably be one of these:
Loving Frank by...
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In a separate but similar note - am I the ONLY...
librarianpirate:
thetemerity:
librarianpirate:
The end of the last book just ruins it all for me. It’s like adventure! Fantasy! Woo! Then - CHURCH IS EVIL CHURCH IS EVIL CHURCH IS EVIL. It just gets so preachy and I want to throw it across the room.
I can see what you’re saying, but I still love it. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT.
I guess it comes off as somewhat preachy?
All y’all HDM...
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“…to read a book marked by you in your absence is almost the nearest thing...”
– C.S. Lewis, to his brother, 1939
[Letters of C.S. Lewis, ed. W.H. Lewis]
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“Of course everyone would like to hang out the laundry. But many people don’t do...”
– Shannon Hayes, “Live Dangerously: 10 Easy Steps”
(I really liked her Radical Homemakers last year.)
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“[T]his new perspective on happiness as a given right, tends to imagine happiness...”
– Darrin M. McMahon, “A History of Happiness”
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“The library is safe thanks to Egypt’s youth, whether they be the staff of the...”
– Ismail Serageldin, Librarian of Alexandria, from the Bibliotheca Alexandrina website, via bookshelves of doom. 