Friday but...
Dec. 14th, 2007 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoSo. To work, to catalog and transfer books around in the catalog, process interlibrary loans and all that good stuff. At lunch I was able to polish off the draft of a short submission I wanted to get out. Tomorrow being the deadline, that seemed like a good idea. It went out, but if by chance it is accepted it will need another going over I'm sure. Also called the car dealership to schedule a 12,000 mile service for the Escape next week.
Worked until 5:30, as usual for a Friday had to chase people out the door with brooms. To Woodstock to meet Gary so he could buy me dinner for my birthday, While there, saw![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
niccat23 out with her family and she assured me that she has been catching up on this journal (as if I were going to give her demerits for skipping over it, but you know, all us catalogers are supposed to be anal retentives that way or something.) *waves*
Had too much dinner. Came home to a stack of gift boxes from relatives. My brother and sister-in-law send good stuff, like sourdough bread and small dairy cheeses from Michigan.
Oh, I didn't give the details about those two interesting books I got from Gary this morning.
One is Way of the Horse: Equine Archetypes for Self-discovery by Linda Kohanov. (from New World Library) This is very "new agey" but the artwork on the included deck of cards is spectacular. The artist is Kim McElroy.
The other is American Band: Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland by Kristen Laine. (from Gotham Books) about the culture and experience of the midwestern high school marching bands. Been there, done that, as did both my brothers. In fact, younger brother was a drum major and went on to get a bachelor's degree in music. Should be very interesting, whether I agree with the author in the end or not.
I should be in bed now, because the Christmas bird count is tomorrow and I promised to participate which means being at friend Susan's house at 7:30 am ready to go with binoculars and at least a thermos of hot tea. Then I'm cutting out early from that, around lunch time, so that we can get to Elgin for the annual Sagittarius party. We have so many friends who are born at this time of year that we have a regular annual bash. Also true at work for some reason. Last Friday we had the monthly birthday breakfast, with four of us as the "guests of honor" where typically it is just one or at most two. I could almost think that there are an excessive number of December babies, but that doesn't seem to be particularly true. On the other hand, I have definitely noticed that in all the library jobs I've had over the past 35 years or so, Sagittarians seemed to make up a disproportionate number of my colleagues. Peculiar, even if it is just a coincidence.
Worked until 5:30, as usual for a Friday had to chase people out the door with brooms. To Woodstock to meet Gary so he could buy me dinner for my birthday, While there, saw
niccat23 out with her family and she assured me that she has been catching up on this journal (as if I were going to give her demerits for skipping over it, but you know, all us catalogers are supposed to be anal retentives that way or something.) *waves*Had too much dinner. Came home to a stack of gift boxes from relatives. My brother and sister-in-law send good stuff, like sourdough bread and small dairy cheeses from Michigan.
Oh, I didn't give the details about those two interesting books I got from Gary this morning.
One is Way of the Horse: Equine Archetypes for Self-discovery by Linda Kohanov. (from New World Library) This is very "new agey" but the artwork on the included deck of cards is spectacular. The artist is Kim McElroy.
The other is American Band: Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland by Kristen Laine. (from Gotham Books) about the culture and experience of the midwestern high school marching bands. Been there, done that, as did both my brothers. In fact, younger brother was a drum major and went on to get a bachelor's degree in music. Should be very interesting, whether I agree with the author in the end or not.
I should be in bed now, because the Christmas bird count is tomorrow and I promised to participate which means being at friend Susan's house at 7:30 am ready to go with binoculars and at least a thermos of hot tea. Then I'm cutting out early from that, around lunch time, so that we can get to Elgin for the annual Sagittarius party. We have so many friends who are born at this time of year that we have a regular annual bash. Also true at work for some reason. Last Friday we had the monthly birthday breakfast, with four of us as the "guests of honor" where typically it is just one or at most two. I could almost think that there are an excessive number of December babies, but that doesn't seem to be particularly true. On the other hand, I have definitely noticed that in all the library jobs I've had over the past 35 years or so, Sagittarians seemed to make up a disproportionate number of my colleagues. Peculiar, even if it is just a coincidence.
