Ellen W.

While making holiday cards for a skilled nursing facility. I also read vol III of On the Calculation of Volume and today I got the new edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. And in non-book news, tonight was the inaugural draft of the new women’s pro baseball league!

I’ve had a very, very, very long week but it has also been book-heavy. Tuesday I went to a Zoom discussion about book awards. Wednesday night M and I watched the livestream of the National Book Awards. Tonight I went to the student book club, where we discussed both Shatter Me and Gravity’s Rainbow…

We used to not have to do anything if we just wanted to stay with the same stuff and then a few years ago they started making us go through this horrid online system every year to select things.

This morning at the gym I got my knee to the floor on all the sandbag lunges, but the really impressive part, I think, is that I then got back up. Yes, everything is sore.

I played around with zine templates today. I was really excited about a one page version, only to discover upon printing that it was for A4 paper.

If you let someone cut in front if you in traffic and they don’t do the little hand wave as thanks, you should be legally allowed to ram their car.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

A man dressed in a Scream costume and a woman dressed in a grey and black baseball outfit holding a red and black baseball bat stands in an office area.

This building’s portion of the Systems Department is in the Halloween spirit.

Costume #1

Yes, I did a full workout in this. 😂

I am done with my to do list for the day and there are still 75 minutes left in the work day. If I didn’t have to run a time-specific errand after work I would have figured out how to get out of here early. It rained all day Sunday and today is nice, there ought to be some sort of comp time for that

Steve Urkel saying DID AI DO THAT

In case it's useful.

We waited too long to buy plane tickets for Christmas so we’re home for 17 glorious days without work and if I can (I cannot) stop acquiring books I should be able to make some TBR progress.

100%

As a trained information professional, I approve.

Pfft that’s not a pile, it’s barely a stack. You need more books.

So smug

I am feeling pretty smug about how well the book club I started is going.

molly the beauty of the first game in the series is the promise of endless possibilities tbh

I think some sort of memo was sent to units outside the library about emailing me to demand money to replace existing technology that still works. My dudes, I have no budget.

What remains of my dignity, however, was grievously wounded.

I tripped yesterday and very narrowly avoided smashing my face into concrete thanks to the heroic work of my left wrist, which is now a bit sore and swollen. This morning I found out about a walk-in ortho clinic so I went there to make sure I hadn’t really injured anything. Just a bad strain!

I need glasses for every single distance now!

At least I can just say it’s working now.

Came in to find one zillion emails about library platforms being down due to the AWS outage.

Excuse me, did you say for college?!?

We don’t appreciate it enough when we have it.

Rushing to the pharmacy to pick up my fat checks from Merck and Pfizer.

Anyway this morning I was trying to decide what to do this weekend and thought of our conversation and decided to seek joy.

I talked to my college chaplain yesterday for the first time since 1998 and he helped me sort out some theological dilemmas I’ve been facing. I am not a regular churchgoer but I do have a faith tradition that’s meaningful to me and he helped me sort through some things.

I held a puppy!