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Sleepy. Movies and Pizza.
Mar. 27th, 2005 07:38 pmMy celebration of Easter this year, always pretty secular, was largely limited to the decapitation of a tasty chocolate rabbit and some quality time on the couch with loved ones. We watched the Incredibles. A very nice movie.
In non-Easter news, my vampire website for my library class is coming along really well. One thing I have noticed about my master's classmates is that they are very very motivated and focused. The less traditional the student (older, more professional) the more they are deadline and output oriented. In undergrad I was often that annoyed kid doing more than my share of the work because I felt like otherwise others put out substandard or irrelevant output. here in the MLS program I generally feel like I am the less productive on track member of the group, struggling to maintain good output on par with my peers. Frankly, I kinda like the feeling. It really inspires me to put seat to chair and do my part.
At work I am trying to do some cool extra stuff, but I'm still scared to start working on rebinding the books that are totally falling apart, so I'm doing more baby-stuff. Right now that means gluing back on labels that have peeled off. As they are old and fragile and crunchy, it's actually kinda tricky, but it lacks panache.
Books wise I am just waiting for the end of next month. Tons of new books by my favorite vampire authors come out in May, June, and July, but there are no releases I'm excited about in April. I have to start doing my taxes (now that I'm married (very weird)) I need to see if filing jointly or singly will be a better deal. Work on both of the novels I'm drafting has been stalled by laziness for over two months, which is also the amount of time I've been avoiding going to the gym. Coincidence? I think not. Physical laziness definitely leads to mental laziness in me. Healthy mind and healthy body are interrelated, sad as it is for my geeky self to say this.
Jason brought home a copy of "What's the Matter with Kansas" so that's my non-fantasy/romance book for the week. I'm also wading through "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century" by Barbara Tuchman and can really recommend that to anyone who likes seeing social patterns all neatly spread out on a mixed micro/macro scale with occasional nice bits of psych/sociology stuff added in. Reading history is kind of like suddenly being shown puzzle pieces you didn't know were missing from your perception of current events.
In non-Easter news, my vampire website for my library class is coming along really well. One thing I have noticed about my master's classmates is that they are very very motivated and focused. The less traditional the student (older, more professional) the more they are deadline and output oriented. In undergrad I was often that annoyed kid doing more than my share of the work because I felt like otherwise others put out substandard or irrelevant output. here in the MLS program I generally feel like I am the less productive on track member of the group, struggling to maintain good output on par with my peers. Frankly, I kinda like the feeling. It really inspires me to put seat to chair and do my part.
At work I am trying to do some cool extra stuff, but I'm still scared to start working on rebinding the books that are totally falling apart, so I'm doing more baby-stuff. Right now that means gluing back on labels that have peeled off. As they are old and fragile and crunchy, it's actually kinda tricky, but it lacks panache.
Books wise I am just waiting for the end of next month. Tons of new books by my favorite vampire authors come out in May, June, and July, but there are no releases I'm excited about in April. I have to start doing my taxes (now that I'm married (very weird)) I need to see if filing jointly or singly will be a better deal. Work on both of the novels I'm drafting has been stalled by laziness for over two months, which is also the amount of time I've been avoiding going to the gym. Coincidence? I think not. Physical laziness definitely leads to mental laziness in me. Healthy mind and healthy body are interrelated, sad as it is for my geeky self to say this.
Jason brought home a copy of "What's the Matter with Kansas" so that's my non-fantasy/romance book for the week. I'm also wading through "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century" by Barbara Tuchman and can really recommend that to anyone who likes seeing social patterns all neatly spread out on a mixed micro/macro scale with occasional nice bits of psych/sociology stuff added in. Reading history is kind of like suddenly being shown puzzle pieces you didn't know were missing from your perception of current events.
