For my birthday on the Ides of June, my mom and brothers came all the way down to Mobile from the homestead in Northwest Alabama to see me and have a mini-vacation of sorts. We covered just about as much of the Gulf Coast as one can expect to cover in a long weekend. On [...]
There are many articles in my place that possess names. Winston the thrift store arm chair, Maximilian the vacuuming robot, Barkley the Bonsai, Whitman (Lucky Bamboo), Jill the Dinosaur (I didn’t name that one.), computers and drives (Albus, Perenelle Flamel, Ginevra, Ptolemy, Bartemius, McGongall, Professor Binns…I apologize for the obvious theme if you followed Harry [...]
John and I visited Bay St. Louis, Mississippi Friday last, and when I mentioned it on Twitter and Facebook, I received several questions about how the city is doing since it was flattened by Katrina in 2005, so I thought I would do a post about it here. I’ve only been on the Gulf Coast [...]
I read about Operation Teen Book Drop on readergirlz, and thought it was a great idea. Since I work for a university that has a Children’s Hospital, and it is such a great idea, I decided to steal it. So, to celebrate the upcoming National Library Week, the libraries at the University of South Alabama [...]
My awesome mommy gave me a Nabaztag for Christmas. I love having it around the house, and now I always know when I have email whether I’m at the computer or with my phone or not. He will read me the news in a delightful British accent (you get to choose the voice), tell me [...]
I read 34 books this year (that I can recall). So what if 8 of them were Harry Potter and another 8 were manga and comics? After 2 years of grad school my brain needed a bit of a rest. As a result, the titles were almost completely young adult, fantasy, and science fiction. Still, [...]
My MacBook has a crack in the bezel around the screen. I know, tragic. No seriously, it affected my mood big time yesterday. This thing is my workhorse and my constant companion. Using a computer has never felt more natural to me than it does on this thing. (Even on my shiny new iMac at [...]
Well, I was very rarely posting at LibrarySpark.com, so I decided to give it up. It was intended to be a library technology blog and a professional site, but I always felt pressure to be the first or only one to post on a given topic, and I was always worried that the posts weren’t [...]
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