I'm a slayer, ask me how.

Oh facebook chat, you are so totally unnecesary. First of all, you're hidden in the corner so I do not notice you. Second, when someone sends you a message it does not alert you in any way so they could sit there forever waiting. Third, I have IM Facebook. If I wanted to talk to these people in real-time, I would already be doing so. Stop trying to make me connect against my will!!!!

Also, has anyone logged into MySpace recently? Dear gods, they totally ripped off Facebook. Well, they tried but failed miserably because it is still MySpace so there are flashing ads and crap all over the place and in the center is a horrible Facebook rip-off shoved into place.

My Twitter "following" list is growing. I made a random comment about BSG the other night (Don't worry, Hot Dog and Racetrack will protect us!) and someone added me out of the blue and I can't quite figure out how he found me since he is not following any of my other friends. (One night I'm going to actually keep track of how long it takes me to go through my Flist, Facebook, DCSWCC forums, and Twitter followers and then be very depressed).

that reminds me - OMG NEW BSG TONIGHT!!

I've been doing cataloging homework all afternoon. It's actually not so bad, just lots of flipping through the manual and trying to figure out what rules to follow. The MARC records are confusing because I'm supposed to know what all the numbers mean and I do not. But my prof. gave out lots of links to tutorials and such. so I'm playing with those now.

Yes yes, back to work.

Words cannot describe how much I hate MySpace. I just spent an INSANE amount of time trying to log in to the damn thing because zaubervz just made a new page and wanted me to approve his friends request. After attempting to log in, having it crash my browser, and then having to wait a minute for my internet to come back, I finally got to the requests page, only to find that I had 4 requests waiting and somehow NEVER recieved and email telling me so. FOUR! From September!

Then I tried to approve the requests - error error error. Ugh. Tried to read a message and reply to it - error error error. *headdesk* Tried to use IE instead of Firefox - same problems.

AAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Finally got the requests approved and wanted to see my friends page - yeah, not gonna happen.

I hate that site. I hope it dies in a fire.

So, I won $10 today at work! It's because I got a "Bravo" last month for helping with some Summer Reading Club stuff and they drew my name out of a hat and voila, $10! I've already spent it on star wars stuff though (I should be getting a Yoda tie and comics this weekend).

Want to waste gobs of time? Looks like lots of Colbert Report "The Word" segments have been uploaded to YouTube....yes, I could lose a whole day. This one on Wikipedia cracks me up though.

tomorrow is zaubervz's birthday. Yowza, the kids like 17! and 40 feet tall! He says we will go out for sushi for his birthday dinner. Should be fun. :) I love chillin' with my bro.

Zach Braff has an official MySpace now...I want to add him to my friends list but I know that logging into that evil thing will crash my internetz. Ah well, I just want everyone to know, that if I asked Zach Braff to be my friend - he would say yes!

and now, I am really really really tired. If the library is going to be hot and stuffy tomorrow, I am not looking forward to that adventure. Makes for a long day.

...helped someone find a copy of 'hitchhiker's guide' and totally fangirled at him. Though, to be honest, he seemed interested in my babbling about the radio drama and how much I loved the books. He had already seen the new movie and had watched about half of the original BBC miniseries, so he's on his way to becoming a fan, I can tell. It makes me so happy to see those books getting checked out. I need to re-read them.

Speaking of books, I almost started crying on my lunch break today. I've only got about 40 pages left in 'The Book Thief' and it's just as good as all the reviewers said. I was a bit worried. I adored 'I am the Messenger' and bought this one because it was his new book. But, while 'Messenger' took place in modern day Australia, 'Book Thief' is about Nazi Germany. I wasn't sure if I would want to read it or where it would go that would be new. It's a beautiful book. Zusak has a way of writing prose and making it feel like poetry. It's just such a fantastic read. I don't want to spoil any of it for you, but if you have a chance, go to your local library or spin by Borders and grab a copy. I think you'll want to own this one so you can lend it out afterwards. I'll probably blubber over it after I'm totally finished with it because I can already tell I'm so very attached to these characters, I don't want to see them go. (FYI - you can read the first couple chapters from each of those books on Markus Zusak's homepage. Definately reccomended)

We got a new children's book, an illustrated version of the holiday classic 'I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas'. I emailed my supervisor about having a holiday sing-a-long storytime this year. And she said that was a great idea. That song is awesome. I will have to get zaubervz to send my the mp3 again so I may listen to it, even though it's practically summertime.

I also attempted to help someone who actually had no desired to be helped. I cannot stand people who wish to be ignorant. What is that? Especially teenagers. Haven't they seen enough stereotypes of the dumb teen who doesn't care? Don't they want to be something more impressive? Apparently not. All this person wanted was a note that said we couldnt' find anything so they could leave. And they refused to actually answer my questions, since I was trying to find a way to get around their issues and focus on the real project they were working on. But no, they just wanted to be slackers. ("when's this due?" "um, tomorrow, we had 2 days to work on it but I was sick one day and the other day I um...like...um, didn't go cuz of something")

*sigh* it's a good thing I know people like zaubervz, _____saveferris, and the pages at work otherwise I'd be concerned about teenagers of today.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to attempt to add a song to my MySpace profile so I can be like jimithingy hip and with it.

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.

More Joss induced giggling. Wonder Woman script must be due soon or something.

Had a wonderful Valentines Day. jimithingy had said he wasn't going to get me more than chocolates, but I came home to a bouquet of roses, a choxie heart full of dark chocolate meltaways, a little heart tin with Chewbacca on one side and Yoda on the other, a yoda action figure WITH yoda hologram figure (that has to be hard to find), 2 iPod excessories, AND SERENITY ON PSP!

I am so SO spoiled...have I mentioned that? I mean, seriously, it's a bit ridiculous. I cannot figure out where I went so right...perhaps it was in my previous life....maybe I was mother theresa...no wait, she was alive when I was alive....uuuuh...

Someone from high school found me on MySpace. made me do a double take when I opened up my "new messages" thing, as I was expecting it to be one of my co-workers that I had harassed over the weekend, and there was a friend from 7 (?) years ago. haha. At least it was someone I liked...what do I do when the annoying people that I could never stand start messaging me?

and last night, when I should have been going to bed, I made pretty banners - wanna see?

( Amy Acker and Kristen Bell )

My brother is adorable so very very cool

I wish he'd post those pics to LJ though, I freakin' HATE MySpace sooooo much.

zaubervz, if you're reading this - GET A FREAKIN' SHUTTERBOOK or FLICKR ACCOUNT!

Okay, like, half the librarians in this branch have MySpace accounts now, it's ridiculous. And, of course, I'm friending all of them. But I truly hate MySpace. Why can't they all get LJ accounts. LJ is so much prettier. No ads or pop-ups. it's free and pretty. And I hate logging into it while I'm at work cuz they have Internet Explorer and it doesn't block pop ups like Firefox. Ugh.

HARRY POTTER IN 6 HOURS!!!!!!! w00t!

EDIT: okay, you have to have MySpace to see those pics - but don't worry, I did teh evil hotlink below so you can see them without signing up.

( so you don't have to sign up for evil myspace to see what I'm talking about )