Cascading downwards

My promotion has officially gone through! I am a full Librarian, and I got a $4K raise.

Now if they'll just move me to my new branch ASAP.

I got a call today about a library job in Newport News, Virginia that I applied for. They want me to come down and interview. I'm going to have to ask my husband how he really feels about moving there.

Now, I generally suck at interviews, because it doesn't occur to me to practice. What kind of questions do I need to have answers ready for?

Gakked from bastardsnow Take this list and post it into your own LJ, and bold the movies you've seen. Add five more movies to the end of the list. Count how many movies you have seen. If you've seen more than 70 movies, you are a "movie whore". Post the score of how many movies you've seen in the subject line. Use a LJ-cut since you've got at least one LJ-friend who doesn't really want to see an ungodly number of movies snaking its way down the computer monitor. (optional, extra credit) Question your friend's taste in movies. ( Read more... )

I have a final exam tomorrow. Please tell me something that will make me sit down and study. I have serious senioritis. So far, I have failed to study on Friday (day off), and only managed to read 1 1/2 chapters on Sunday.

Plus, I (yet again) did not do much of the reading over the semester, so I'm having to do it all now. On the bright side, this means it will all be fresh in my mind come test-time. This worked beautifully for the midterm. This guy's tests are all on the reading, almost nothing on the lecture (which sucks, as I am one of those lucky auditory learners).

I am going to indoctrinate my kids with this statement early (taken from a concert review, of all things):

silliness trumps cool when it comes to having fun

I just finished writing this for my bloglines blog, which I'm pretty sure no one reads, so I'm reposting here for a wider audience.

Reference URL: Growing Up Denatured(NY Times, registration required)

I was just thinking about this the other day, it's part of the reason I would like to move to a semi-rural, or at least much less densely populated area: there's nowhere for kids to play here. Planned playgrounds are simply not the same.

I was not by any means an outdoorsy child, but I remember quite a lot of time spent tramping through various unclaimed lots and neighbors' backyards. Even just reading in a "secret" space in the woods near my house; climbing trees, walking home dripping wet from falling in the lake, finding the shortcut between two subdivisions that saved you from climbing a fence or going an extra half-mile to the connecting road (sadly, that shortcut has now been widened and paved for easier access - my brother and I were both horrified that it looked all "official" now).

A childhood without any experiences like that does seem deprived, as stupid as "nature-deprivation syndrome" sounds. I don't want a child who has never had to be coaxed out of a large tree (as I was - and the coaxing was so we could go home, it wasn't even in my own yard). Or who has never learned for *themselves* some of the inevitable laws of physics which lead to skinned knees, poison ivy, and even broken bones. That child has also never had the delight of learning that rasperries fresh from the cane are much better than the ones in the supermarket, or that toads are actually dry and leathery to the touch, or that everything looks a lot different from 15 feet up a tree.

Because, when I had done the first two, the results were entertaining.

1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4: Australia is known for macles. The green diamong isn't
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. It's... a fat cat (Hamlet)
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV? The least episode of Eyes, on Tivo
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is: 11:10 PM
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?: 11:34 PM
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? South Park on TV in the background (for Rich)
7: When did you last step outside? A couple hours ago when I went to MIL's to pick up pics
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at? bloglines
9: What are you wearing? yoga pants, bra tank, humungo comfy sweater
10: Did you dream last night? Presumably
11: When did you last laugh? during Eyes
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?: I have a list (I'm in the living room)
13: Seen anything weird lately?: uh, my parents in the same room
14: What do you think of this quiz? amusing
15: What is the last film you saw?: National Treasure
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?: I'd try a house first, but since that usually takes a while, new wardrobe
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know: not in a public post
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?: Can I up the average IQ by 30 points? And not by making more smart people - by increasing the IQ of the idiots
19: Do you like to dance?: yes, but not in public
20: George Bush: needs to review the main tenets of the Declaration fo Independence and the Constitution (hello, separation of church and state)
21: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?: Paige Frances
21: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?: Andrew Frances
22: Would you ever consider living abroad?: everytime the govt does something stupid (read:weekly)

Well, this one seems pretty right to me:

Sure, I'll get drunk in the name of law enforcement. Where do I sign up?

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-84369sy0mar21,0,4130868.story?coll=dp-news-local-final

Tell me this doesn't remind you of me oh so much. Skin, hair and nose.

John Singer Sargent, Madame X, if anyone wants to know where I got it/see the full picture.