you hear the bitchin' so my friends don't have to.

Things are piling up pretty quickly here. I have my two part-time jobs, and have been taking a cataloging course on-line. Starting next week, I'll be adding in an on-campus course as well. Plus I need to create my poster for the SAA meeting in DC in three weeks, get the exhaust system replaced on my car, and take my cat in to the vet to get his weird hair loss checked out. I volunteered to work up in Mpls this weekend for the Day of Music, as a way to see all my old friends up at the Hall, and to hang out with Kathy (she's becoming my best friend which I'm sure would disconcernate her. is that a word??). And I'm in charge of herding my fellow workerbees at the Conservation Lab into an outing to APT before one of them leaves for a year abroad. Then there is following the Rollins Band all over the midwest, right when classes are wrapping up. I have been waiting for almost 10 years to see this incarnation of the band play out, and they'll be opening for X, but in my mind I'm dreading the timing of it all. If they came thru here just one week later... There's just too much stuff packed into the next month. Its like when there have been no good shows in your town in months, and then there are five you want to see all on the same night. I hate that!!!!!

When I was in my 20s this kind of overload would have been no problem, but now in my 40s I just don't have the tolerance for it that I should. Growing older is for the birds. Sometimes I think coming back to school was a mistake. In my old life I had finally reached a point where things were paid off and I ws making headway towards having nicer things. Whatever possessed me to leave and go back to school? And in library science, something I have zero experience in? It would have been nice if the school had said up front, 'Look, without a history background, you will never find an archives job, no matter what we say to the contrary later.' The only good part of it was that I sold my house before the housig market balloon deflated. Of course, I'll never be able to afford a house again...

Ok, I think I've gotten some of the badess out of my soul for a few hours. Thanks for tuning in..

Stupid fireworks...

No, not really. it's just that Warren is out of town, and most of my other 'friends' (fellow students) are married or whatever. No-one is available to just hang out and see the fireworks. While there are a lot of things I'll do alone, doing something super-social like ooh-ing and aah-ing at fireworks is NOT one of them. Could I look any more pitiful? Well, probably.
On the plus side, I got my homework for cataloging done early and have already printed out the readings for the coming week. And I hit the Farmers Market for some sweet berries and a wonderful hanging tomato plant. also, got my bike washed, and locked to the railing downstairs. There is no way I am going to spend another year hauling it up and down the stairs every day! it's not like its a lightweight 21 speed or something. That puppy is HEAVY! Fingers crossed that none of the neighbor kids decide to mess with it.
Finally rented 'Enron: the smartest guys in the room"; Those guys should be gutted and fed to lions.
I picked up a copy of the book, "Return of the Bunny Suicides" by Andy Riley when I was at the Half-Price books dumping my unwanted books. It is hysterical. Line drawings of bunnies finding ingenous ways to kill themselves. Perect for the kids! LOL
Also, I've become addicted the show "Spaced" on BBC America. It stars the guy from Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg (sp?).
Aah, the weather is prefect, despite the fireworks set-back. Time to hit the porch with next weeks' readings and a drink with a bendy straw. oh, bendy straw, is there nothing you can't make better??!

Let's listen to some vintage Rollins Band, in honor of the boys reuniting and touring this summer. Yay!!!!!!