What a difference a day can make. I wrote the title of this blog post YESTERDAY around 5pm. It’s now Sunday, getting close to 930pm, and this post will need to be much shorter than I originally planned. But, I’m okay with that. I just want to get it written…
Feeling better, thanks to book bargains!
Today at work, I was feeling kind of blue. Parts of my day were somewhat productive, but I also had a difficult request, took quite a while to find a library that owned the right volume of the journal, one that also would hopefully not charge us an arm and…
Software change further hampers blog communications
A couple days ago, my work changed the program they use to block people from accessing certain kinds of websites on work computers. I completely understand the need for this, and for the most part, I understand why they block the kinds of sites they block — because even if…
In which I make excuses for my silence
I had a feeling I was overdue to write a blog post, and now I see, it’s even been a few days longer than I thought it had. And so, here’s some of what I’ve been doing the past couple weeks (or nearly that) since I last posted (and unfortunately…
Article on Roger Ebert brings me to tears. (What’s new?)
I’ve already been on the computer too long, need to get myself changed and on the treadmill and ready for Lost (wahoo!), but I just read this WHOLE article and it’s just fantastic. It’s a feature article about Roger Ebert in Esquire, and dammit, it made me cry in a…
Some thoughts on reading, on my son’s birthday
Today is Valentine’s Day, and also my son Kyle’s 10th birthday. Jeff and I have been parents for a whole decade. This is too frightening to contemplate for too long, so I’ll quickly move on from there… But anyway, Kyle had three friends over last evening, and two of them…
Joining two more Reading Challenges for 2010
There is never never never enough time for me to get all my stuff together. I started a post LAST Friday about a reading challenge I’d decided to join, and here it is, Friday again, and I figured I should just start over, and talk (briefly) about BOTH of the…
FreeVerse: Against Love Poetry by Eavan Boland
A few weeks ago, I read a book of poems by Eavan Boland called Against Love Poetry. I got it after Thanksgiving 2008, so I’d only had it in my TBR Mountain a little over a year – not bad for me! I attended a poetry reading when I was…
The Classics Circuit: The Children by Edith Wharton
I’ve been a fan of Edith Wharton’s novels for over 15 years, so I jumped at the chance to participate in this tour, and am glad it compelled me to read one of several Wharton books that I already owned but hadn’t previously read. Many, many thanks to Rebecca Reid…
Recently traveling, currently reading
It may seem that I became quiet all of the sudden, but really I’ve been busy. A week ago, I flew to Washington, DC, for the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board. I had a poster accepted for a poster session, and was able to get approval to travel….