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Nov. 27th, 2005 09:40 pmWorking my way into the various final assignments for this semester of school. Picking up a Nora Roberts book every now and then to cut the tedium of searching through WilsonWeb and Google, looking for the various articles that I'll mesh together into my final assignment for one class. Spent an hour yesterday going through Laura Anne Gilman's blog looking for a post I remembered about release dates, and didn't find it, but did find a cool post-linking-to-a-post-about finding agents, which caused me to bookmark about 9 sites on agents that I won't have time to really look at until school break. Yay blogs! Because that's the kind of information that in the pre-blog/internet world would have taken someone months of book research to put together, if they even could. Instant expertise.
I have a new desk chair, and a new rug from CostPlus (gray and nubbly, with bits of blue) and today was a good day at the gym. Walked around, looked at comics in the warmish drizzly rain. Also nice. Looking forward to Christmas break so so much, and then starting my last semester of library school. A bit jealous of some people who already have job offers - different field, different rules, have to remind myself of that.
Overall, life is going well. My improved mood, like my improved physical health, is probably directly tied to going to the gym every other day for the last week and a half or two weeks. Every time I start working out again I remember this, and yet it's one of those things I keep forgetting. Musing on what being a "whole person" really means in a culture with so ridiculously many options. Setting arbitrary limits is one of those arts the modern mind grapples with - have to make choices that narrow down your vision to a field of the workably possible, or all that energy just dissipates into noise and no signal. I finally finished a poem I was working on on and off for the last few years a few months ago, so that was nice.
And I read "Just Murdered" by Elaine Viets yesterday - very pleasant. Like the whole "Dead-End Job" series- a good mixup of straight up clue-based mystery and social setting.
I have a new desk chair, and a new rug from CostPlus (gray and nubbly, with bits of blue) and today was a good day at the gym. Walked around, looked at comics in the warmish drizzly rain. Also nice. Looking forward to Christmas break so so much, and then starting my last semester of library school. A bit jealous of some people who already have job offers - different field, different rules, have to remind myself of that.
Overall, life is going well. My improved mood, like my improved physical health, is probably directly tied to going to the gym every other day for the last week and a half or two weeks. Every time I start working out again I remember this, and yet it's one of those things I keep forgetting. Musing on what being a "whole person" really means in a culture with so ridiculously many options. Setting arbitrary limits is one of those arts the modern mind grapples with - have to make choices that narrow down your vision to a field of the workably possible, or all that energy just dissipates into noise and no signal. I finally finished a poem I was working on on and off for the last few years a few months ago, so that was nice.
And I read "Just Murdered" by Elaine Viets yesterday - very pleasant. Like the whole "Dead-End Job" series- a good mixup of straight up clue-based mystery and social setting.
