I'm a slayer, ask me how.

Tomorrow should be fun - it's the 'Great Books for Kids' conference in Baltimore and I get to go. :D It will be interesting to see how other librarians evaluate books for kids. I think the hardest part for me was to get my mindset to be like a childs (stop snickering, I can hear you!). What I mean is, I was reading some of the J-Fic and the YA books and getting annoyed because of one thing or another, and then I wasn't sure if it was because I wasn't the target demographic or just the book.

But anyway that is tomorrow.

I checked out the Liberty Meadows book from the library. I hadn't read that strip in FOREVER. the cartoonist, Frank Cho, is a maryland boy, so it was sort of a big deal when he was in the newspaper each week. But since I dont' get a newspaper now, I sort of forgot about how looney the strip is. He does draw hot ladies though, Brandy is pretty. Only one appearance of 'Frank the Chimp' in this book, so I ordered the next volume thru Marina (our inter-state loan system) in hopes of seeing Monkey Boy! haha. Goodtimes. From the look of his website, it sounds like he went from a weekly strip to comic book format. I should look for that when I'm at the store!

Speaking of comics, jimithingy made this cool little animated Penny Arcade strip for his MySpace page (yes, I am mocking him for pimpin' his 'Space). I stole it and put it in my userinfo because it's such a classic strip. I shall share it here because everyone likes to laugh with Gabe and Tycho!

( let's go outside! )

Note to strange man at the library - do NOT hit on the librarians. We do not think it's cute or sweet. You're not at the "little old man" stage yet where you can get away with it. You're at the creepy middle aged dude stage where I want to go and puke in the backroom after your comments. They were so original too! "I bet you get tired of people telling you how pretty you are?" "Can I buy you a beer?" "You're nobody's blank check!"

btw, WTF does that last one mean??? I think he might have been a little crazy. I should have told him that if he wanted to ogle younger women all day to get a MySpace account and leave me alone.

wow, this is just sad. I didn't drink any soda today, instead with my lunch I had an iced tea. And my caffiene/sugar dependency kicked in at about 5pm. I felt dizzy, nasueas, and my eyes itched like crazy.

When I came home, I chugged a cherry coke, which helped me for a little while, but I'm coming back down now....

It's so pathetic. This is why I don't do drugs.

ack! I need to submit my entry to actor_lims but my brain is fried...this will most likely be the week I get voted out. No time to make a decent icon! Sleep I must.

So WTF is up with men and women's pant sizes? Who decided that guys get actual numbers that mean something and girls get arbitrary numbers?

I mean, I figure it's all a mental thing. Is it true that men's clothing rarely comes in a size "small" because no man wants to be told he is small? While women's sizes are labeled smaller because we like to be told we're tiny? So I figure they came up with these smaller numbers for women so we would be smaller. (this is a US thing though, as I noticed a few pants had "UK" stamped inside with a different size closer to what the men wear). Also, the men get specific measured lengths, while we get "short, regular, long". Which also means, at least to my understanding after talking with verdatum, zaubervz and jimithingy last night, that their pant sizes are more consistent. They are the size that they are, while my size fluctuates depending on what kind of store I'm in. Hechts I'm probably a 12, Kohls I'm usually a 14, retail stores in malls, usually a 14-16.

This also forces us to try stuff on, something I hate but have to do since each new store has a new size. Guys, not so much, they go in, get their size, walk out. I think, if that was the case for me anyway, I'd buy more if I could just go in and grab my sizes and leave.

HEAR THAT CORPORATE AMERICA!!!!! BE CONSISTENT AND I WILL BUY MORE!

*sigh*

In other news - Heath Bars are apparently not very popular in our Giant. I just bought one and it actually had dust on it...poor unloved Heath bar...come here, Sammie will make it aaaaaaaall better *eats*

okay, I know I used this tutorial before to add a header to a free account before I went paid...but fo the life of me I can't remember how to get into the override code area they are talking about. I wanted to make simfamous all pretty! I even made it a banner really quick just so spruce it up! *le sigh* Guess that will have to wait until tomorrow.

I have so many books to read. 'Great Books' is the first week of April, and I still have 8 books to read by then. True, they are all J and YA novels, BUT that's still a lot of reading. Especially when every book I've requested from outside the state seems to be arriving. Yesterday it was 'Mystique vol 2 - tinker tailor mutant spy' by Brian K Vaughan. Today it was 'The Hood', also by BKV. And I looked at my account today and 'The Walking Dead' was in processing at headquarters!!! Inter-Library loan books usually can't be renewed since they come from far far away (Mystique was shipped in from Florida, The Hood somewhere called "Woodinville"...no joke). And it's hard not to read those because I've been waiting to read them for awhile now. I'm actually really shocked they found 'the hood' for me! It's out of print and I think it's one of BKV's first comic series...but lo and behold. There's a fanboy/girl somewhere out there stocking the shelves of the Woodinville library with quality graphic novels!

LATI starts tomorrow. I get to sleep in a whole 30 minutes! Ooooooh. No seriously, OOOOOOH! I like any bits of sleep I can get. It says we get a "continental" breakfast, but that can range from coffee and a donut to buffet style. Wonder what it will be. I'll probably have breakfast before I go anyway, juuuust in case it's nasty food. Plus, coffee, yuck. It also says lunch is included...again, hopefully it will be something yummy. I just hope my stomach doesn't start to growl. I have a very loud tummy, even when I'm not hungry, it starts growling.

I can't wait to show off Giles too. I'm so proud of myself for thinking of bringing that to "represent me". Think about it - he's a librarian (check for me too), he's an adult but he doesn't mind working with teens (check), he has a vast knowledge of some pop and classic culture (check), and he doesn't die at the end of the show (check!)

Plus, Sam + Toys = OTP.

Speaking of my preciouses, my firefly promo card came today!!! Unfortunately I have to wait until April 30th to get the rest. But I will have them! And the Veronica Mars cards! and the Young Indy cards! mmmm trading cards.

I just realized I'll be internet-less ALL DAY tomorrow!!!! *gasp* How...how will I survive!!! Even if I don't post every day, I read my flist every day and try to comment. Means I'll have a lot of catching up to do when I get home at 5pm.

Oh, and I'm thinking of getting a haircut, somewhere between Veronica Mars in the pilot episode hair and the new hair cut Storm has in the X3 trailer...course, Storms hair just looks cool because of the black/white coloring of it...and Veronica too has highlights I think. Though I still have random leftovers of my red hair...

yay or nay people? Yes, I know it's "teh flippy cut" yet again. Do you have any other hair suggestions? I like it short, but not Natalie Portman/V for Vendetta short. But it's season 2 Buffy length right now and I seriously just don't have the skillz to keep it looking decent. I've just been putting it in a ponytail to keep it outta my face. So any help and/or links to photos would be appreciated.

Leave me replies so I can read them when I come home tomorrow :-)

oh man oh man, what a day yesterday. Worked 9-5. Got there and I was talking on the desk with my boss and she's like "so when is your birthday?" and I said "uuuh, today." And everyone was like WHAT! WHY ARE YOU WORKING! haha. So I guess next year I'll take the gorram day off! Seriously, this birthday just snuck up on me. I was so spoiled for our anniversary and valentines day that I felt like my birthday needed to be further down the road!!! But anyway, it wasn't, it was yesterday. And jimithingy spoiled me as usual.

Yes, now I am officially a hard core collector. I have my very own Master Replica Force F/X Lightsaber!!! Anakin's to be exact. Well, Anakin/Luke, a lovely trilogies cross over. Oh my god, it is AWESOME!!!!! I can't really swing it around too much in the apartment, as I'll take down my other toys, but when I got outside (because it went with me to Perri & Alan's, that's how much I love it) and had a chance to swing it around....ooooooh felt soooo good. It's freakin' cool. especially in the dark, you can really see the blade as it lights up and..mmmmm

But, of course, that's not all I got. Oh no. I now have HARRY POTTER SCENE IT! I feel a party coming on!!! Perri also said she was going to hook me up with 'Goblet of Fire' as soon as that comes out (tuesday)!

Also got a 'box of Bean: the Complete Mr Bean series" Ooooooh yes, something to watch when TV fails us (which it does most every night now). Classic Bean. I adore this show. It will also probably lead to Bean icons....maybe.

I now have another Karaoke Revolution game, this one has some Britney Spears which should be fun to sing and make fun of haha. AND Fatal Frame II! Which I can only play on VERY sunny days. I'm scared of that game right now and I'm not even playing it. But its soooo cool.

And, what birthday would be complete without some action figures. I got the Hoth trooper, Leia in Bousch disguise and Carbonite Han from the most recent wave of 3 1/2" figures. AND the new galacitc heroes speeder bike with scout trooper. He's all dirty! You can never have too many troopers.

Aaaaand Bonus gift, jimithingy just reached over my shoulder and handed me a $15 iTunes card!!! oooooh what to buy what to buy!

Oh I am just so spoiled!! I'm going to go clean off the top of the TV now, as it's the most logical place to display my lightsaber. Plus, it will give me easy access in case any Sith show up with BBQ sauce.

It's Wezzles' birthday! Alexis Denisof is 40 today! Now if someone would just cast him in a freakin' movie so we could see him more often...

and holy crap my birthday is now less than a week away! WTF? Perri and Alan invited us over since Perri is one of my birthday buddies (Fishies Pisces rule!) But then I was thinking that my parents might want to do something, but we could always hang out sunday since I'm not working.

destertale and I had Chipotle for lunch yesterday...which means I'm having chipotle for lunch today too. For those of you not familiar with Chipotle burritos - they are about the size of your head. But so yummy. But if you attempt to eat a whole one in a sitting, you will die. Believe me, I did this once, and I know now to never EVER stuff that much food into my body at once again, no matter how delicious.

So now the touch decisions start - do I watch a buffy with commentary, start joss on screenwriting, watch one of the Farscape DVDs I borrowed, or an episode of 'coupling' which I just got from Netflix? Eenie meanie, minie, moe......

So we had our programming meeting today at the library and I have sorta volunteered myself to do a Young Adult program in August - the theme? MySpace, blogging, and personal websites. So now I need to figure out exactly what I want to focus on. And I have to write a blurb for our library happenings...which is due March 1st. So, blurb first, program later!

I figure I'll focus on MySpace, since that's the hot thing right now, but also mention Livejournal, Xanga, MSN Spaces, and anything else? I want to give them tips on customization while sliding in some safety tips. Or something. I dunno. I might have bitten off more than I can chew. I just need to pick something to focus on. I was thinking about the whole personalizing component so I can plug the HTML books we have in the branch. But if any of you that are more familiar with MySpace have ideas, let me know! Is it just basic HTML that is used to edit backgrounds? I still haven't figure out how to do that. I also need to learn about the privacy features that are set up on there....

That was about it for today. I finished my "In Charge" training so now I can be in charge starting in March. Crazy, huh?

Aaaaaaand yeah. Tuesdays are long days. I am sleepy.

Lord of the Rings : Brokeback Mount Doom Watch it, but be prepared to laugh...very loudly.

Busy busy busy weekend. jimithingy's parents were in town, along with his friend Pierre, who was visiting from France. So I worked until 5 and then we'd hang out with them. Good food, but long days. And now back to work tomorrow morning!

Seriously do not have much to say haha. I think I'm going to go to bed early tonight. Hopefully our heat will stop doing weird things.

OH, jimithingy's cousin has a DS and she let me play NintenDogs. Man that is adorable. Though it's so silly. I mean, it's not really a game. It's more a really expensive giga-pet. But it's so cute! And the dogs have little personalities and stuff. It seems like you should just be able to leave it on all day and check on them every few minutes. But it helped me get over the jealousy caused by all the new puppy pictures posted by faeriesfolly.

it's like living in WoWz - Hasbro is having a "Galactic Hunt" this year, with special figures that have stickers and if you buy all the figures and send in their UPCs you'll get a super special George Lucas stormtrooper...

I'd laugh...if I wasn't slightly interested.

ToyFair started this week too, RebelScum has photos of the event here

faeriesfolly pointed this lovely site out to me the other day - it's a Harry Potter quote index! A fun time waster if ever I saw one.

both toothlesshag and zaubervz got out of work/school tomorrow because of the snow piled up outside. So far, no word from the library. I was hoping for at least a delayed opening/start time since it's probably all going to freeze up overnight.

Last night, we lost power around 2am. I was all snuggled into bed, playing one last round of Lumines and them that lovely powering down sound, so I had to hop out of bed and help jimithingy shut down all the electronics before they got zapped. Which, it turns out, wasn't too big of an issue as the power pretty much stayed off until about 10am this morning. It was so very cold. Also, neither of us got much sleep because we are so used to having all these random noises - a fan, the heat, the computers humming, the dishwasher - so much white noise and suddenly silence. jimithingy told me that I breathe very loudly, ala Val Kilmer.

So, I went to update my MySpace page today because it's hip for the kids. Actually, whats really funny is that all these people at work half a MySpace - half because they are part of the online generation and the other half because they are parents trying to figure out the online generation. Anyway, I still do not understand the attraction to MySpace. Everytime I log on, it gives me error messages and "cannot find" and i know full well it's right there. I thought it might be Firefox but dstntp1lgr1m said that's what he uses and if it caused that much trouble for him, why keep doing it. Maybe my computer just rejects MySpace. Which is fine because livejournal is just so much better. A million times. I mean, I attempted to read the blogs page on MySpace and it was just icky to look at. Yes, I am a broken records - MySpace is lame, yes of course I have one, please be my friend, then get a livejournal.....

updated my graphic novel read/ing list which probably means i should post something to novel_graphics!

And don't forget about the oh-so-fun personality meme!