fun quizes

Your Element is Wood

Your power colors: green and brown Your energy: generative Your season: spring Like a tree, you are always growing and changing. And while your life is dynamic, you are firmly grounded. You have high morals and great confidence in yourself and others. You have a wide set of interests, and you make for intersting company.

What Element Are You?

Your Life is Like

High Fidelity

What John Cusack movie are you?

Your Love Quote

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

What Love Quote Suits You?

Your Blogging Type is Unique and Avant Garde

You're a bit ... unusual. And so is your blog. You're impulsive, and you'll often post the first thing that pops in your head. Completely uncensored, you blog tends to shock... even though that's not your intent. You tend to change your blog often, experimenting with new designs and content.

What's Your Blogging Personality?

Your Brain's Pattern

You have a tempered, reasonable way of thinking. You tend to take every new idea in, and meld it with your world view. For you, everything is always changing. Each moment is different. Your thinking process tends to be very natural - with no beginnings or endings.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

happy pumpkin day

Halloween is here -- just a few more days till the trick-or-treat'n madness begins. I love this holiday. I love getting candy, (oh pu-leaze...you eat your kids candy too!), I love seeing imaginative costumes, and I love walking around in the crisp chilly fall air with the smell of leaves turning and the moon looking so eerie and bright. I love watching scary movies late at night and getting creeped out. I haven't done that for a while, and I really need to. I need to see something spine tingling and frightening. I need to feel scared to go to bed in the dark. That is like the most awsome feeling -- when you're too scared to close your eyes 'cause you think the boogeyman is out to get you. It's like a wacked out crazy kind of buzz, feeling scared, feeling like someones creeping up behind you. The willies. I love that term - Willies. Where did we get that word? But I find as I get older I am less and less creeped out- by movies, I mean -- they're just not all that scary anymore. They follow a pattern, and are so derivitave of all the ones that came before, there's just no scare factor. Have there been ANY truly scary movies in the last 5 or even 10 years? I need to investigate this! If I find anything with true scare potential, I'll let ya know. And if there's something you think is worth it -- something that truly gave you the willies, let me know!

foolish me

2006 is right around the corner, and already I have meetings planned, things to do, time to spend -- so I get out my brand-y new calendar, and start writing things in. Foolish me - I am still doing things today that I started years ago as a superstitious pre-teen. It sounds so crazy to admit, but I write people's birthdays in my book in pencil only. Never pen. Why? Because you shouldn't plan for something to happen, like a birthday, because you may not make it to your next one. So here I am, penciling in birthdays of all my family members, wondering -- will they make it? Who knows. It makes me sit and reflect -- what if they didn't? What if, g-d forbid, something happens, and they are not here to pass another year? Would I then erase the penciling in of their birthday? Of course not. -- it's not like the pencil mark will get erased, should the person not be here. Its just that the writing of the date, in pencil, an erasable non-permanent medium, symbolizes my belief that you just never know. You can't plan. You can never know for certain. And no matter how many times I run all this ridiculousness through my head, I will never get myself to switch to a pen. And its scary, really. I even wrote my kids birthdays in pencil, and shuddered as I did so. Will they make it to 9 and 4? What the hell is my problem? Do other people think this way, or am I just nuts. Pathetic, more like it. Maybe this is another "trust issue" -- I've been told I have these -- but I can't find the correlation. Anyway, -- foolish me - my superstition has got the better of me, again.

c'mon people now

So - the Internet was down in my library for 4 days -- We place signs everywhere, but still people come to the ref desk asking for the Internet. I say "sorry, no Internet" and this is what people say to me --

Silly Teen asks "even AOL?"

Bossy Businessman says "but I only have to use it for a minute"

Ludite Wife says "oh no - my husband will be so upset -- his business uses that Internet like all day." To which I reply "he uses the Internet in the library all day?" and she says "Oh no - in his office, here in town. If its down here, its off at his building too, right?"

Pushy Patron says "but I really need you to place my book on hold. can't you just do this one?"

Tenth Patron In A Row quips "bet you wish you had that old card catalog just about now, heh?"

on my way

well, it's that time of year again -- today is my birthday. and it's really not that big of a deal - really. i don't feel like i've done anything, or accomplished anything, and the only thing i have to show for it is a few more gray hairs added to the mix. other things, like my wedding anniversary -- to me, that's something real to celebrate. you have the whole world against you when you're married. 60% of your "colleagues" fail. another year wed, and i think rather happily wed -- now that's cause for celebration. a birthday, however, can easily be passed over and forgotten. which reminds me -- my mother for 2 years in a row has forgotten to call me on my birthday. tonight, she's coming over for dinner, so she'll have to remember, right? and if she does forget, well i bet the cake at the end of the meal should jog her memory!

last weekend in the library parking lot, i met a woman -- "oh, you work in the library?" she asks... "yes" -- "do you have videos?" "yes" "do you have the tell-tale heart?"..... did i mention we were standing in the parking lot? i might be a good librarian -- hell, i may even be a fantastic librarian, but do i keep a copy of the current inventory in my head?!?

some song lyrics i've liked lately --
'i'm on my way, from mysery to happiness today"
"so you're scared and you're thinkin that maybe we aint that young anymore - show a little faith, there's magic in the night"
"this is the day you're life will surely change"
'on my way - i've been this way 10 years to the day - gotta ramble on, gotta sing my song'
'bigmouth la la la la ha ha'
'you've got to lose to know how to win'