23October
2006
maura @ 7:32 pm
You’re so busy you can barely keep up with your leisure blog reading (much less your daily library fix, which grows larger every day because, as you may have guessed, librarians write a LOT) and the house is a sty and you need new clothes and to get the car inspected and you need to pick your classes because registration is coming up and your kid still won’t let you drop him off in the schoolyard so you have to go up to the classroom with him and read one book (just recently down from two!) and you just started an internship in an academic library and said kid needs winter pajamas and rain boots and…
Quick! Assuming this is you, what should you do for the month of November? (Besides vote, duh.)
NaBloPoMo, of course!
Those fine people at fussy have spun that crazy dealie where you write a whole book in a month (insanity!) into something more blogriffic. Who says I can’t post on this blog-of-small-readership every day for 30 days? Who says it???
Well, I might say it. But the more I think about it, the more I could use a little pants-on-fire-ness in my writing life. Some practice for my future, which will likely include publication requirements (though admittedly less bloggy and more scholarly, I bet).
EDITED 10/24/06 to swap out the blog or die image for the Yoda one, because it’s less jarring. Down with jars!
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15October
2006
maura @ 9:55 pm
I just got a spam with the subject line “betterment certification.” Sounds great — sign me up!
So the other day Jonathan was listening to the Buffy musical episode and now I just cannot get that damn music out of my head! It is hard to read about cataloging while you are hearing Anya singing about bunnies.
(Or maybe it is just hard to read about cataloging. Strange, you’d think I’d be all over that, what with the OCD tendencies to organize everything on the planet.)
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14October
2006
maura @ 4:59 pm
Gus is sitting on Jonathan’s lap, staring at J’s ludicrously large new iMac screen, listening to the creepy woman’s voice in text to speech read a page on a site about how to beat all the bosses in Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker on the Nintendo.
It’s just slightly surreal. Plus Jonathan just said to me: “We’re going to need a bigger quiver.” Not something you hear every day.
And what are you doing?
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11October
2006
maura @ 8:28 pm
If there is one thing I would gladly outsource lately it is bedtime. The whining! The procrastinating! The desperate attempts to trap us with convoluted, exhausted almost-5-yr-old logic: “Just wait ONE second! I have something to tell you.” (Okay, Gus, tell me.) “Now, do you want me to get REALLY angry? Because I will!” (delivered in a nearly hysterical sob). Plus there is the suddenly starving situation, which magically appears at zero minutes regardless of the fact that food was offered at the ten minute mark. And if someone can please explain to me why the person who is asking for five more minutes of video games is magically too tired to brush his teeth?
Truly, we are all ready for bed by the end of it. The only good thing is that he is so tired that he passes out in 5 minutes, which is a bonus for us since we still lie down with him until he is asleep, because we are suckahs.
Time for Veronica Mars, prerecorded (and commercial-free!) for our pleasure. Wahoo!
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4October
2006
maura @ 8:30 pm
Not to whine, but the season premiere of Veronica Mars last night was, well, eh. I mean, I get the whole last season was confusing, let’s just start with monster of the week eps thing, but there has to be SOMEthing there for us veterans. And why was there so little Logan? Yay for Mac making the credits, though. I guess we will wait and see how the season pans out.
Ahhh, premiere week! Damn you, television, with your suddenly goodness! My leisure reading, not to mention well restedness, has suffered for it.
And while I’m (not) whining, last night we watched live TV, what a mistake! SO many commercials, practically every 2 seconds. And they are never long enough to get up and do anything, so of course you end up watching them. From now on we are strictly a prerecorded TV household, and we’ll watch only while sitting in our rocking chairs on the screen porch cradling shotguns yelling “get offa my lawn, you kids!”
And in other news, three weeks til Halloween! We have already gotten out the Halloween dishtowels here in Casa Smiller. What, you say you don’t have any Halloween dishtowels? Poor you. Ours are witchy and ghosty and cool, and they make me very happy.
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