Share your favorite duet.
This is hard, because I like a lot of duets. It's fun to have two perspectives on the same song.
But...this one is pretty awesome.
And for something more modern:
This old man walks by the table where my family is celebrating Mother's day. He asks which one is the mother, and my mom raises her hand. He then says, "You look like you could be the grandmother."
Jerky old man.
1) Today, hidden behind the origami books, I found a slightly peeled citrus fruit of some sort. At least, I think it was a citrus fruit. It was moldy and shriveled, and had likely been there quite some time.
2) I did storytime today in front of about 20 people. Then I did a tour for a class at the community college. I get so way more nervous in front of adults than kids. It's a bit silly really.
To celebrate, go here and watch the videos. Don't forget to look at the ones on pages 2 and 3 too. It should give you a giggle.
Then go check out some books, dvds, magazines, cds from your library!
And give your favorite librarian a high-five.
Me: How can I help you?
Kid: I need information on missions. I already have a book.
Me: Ok, let's go back and see if we can find some other books for you.
Kid: No I need information.
My friend Elyse sent me a link to this from McSweeney's (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/librarian/3prosandcons.html)
because it is awesome, I am reposting it here.
D I S P A T C H E S F R O M
A P U B L I C L I B R A R I A N .
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Scott Douglas's new book, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From a Public Librarian, will be available in bookstores on March 24.
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Dispatch 28 (3/3/08)
U.S. News & World Report recently selected librarian as one of the best careers for 2008. Were they right? I suppose it depends on whom you ask, but to help you decide I have compiled an objective list of the top reasons to be (or not to be) a librarian.
Ten reasons to be a librarian
You totally get to classify things.
Where else are you going to ruin a person's day over a 20-cent fine?
The funky glasses make you easily mistaken for a hipster.
You can make up whatever you want and people will believe you just because you're a librarian.
You get first dibs on unclaimed items in the lost-and-found box.
You get to be in charge of buying furniture that is least likely to show a piss stain.
Playing Scrabble on the Internet can be considered "professional development."
The most stressful thing that happens is arguing with people over why they cannot view their favorite pornography website.
Get to spend two hours designing a sign that says the library will be closed for the holidays.
No one says anything when you fall asleep during a meeting.
Ten reasons not to be a librarian
Who wants to go to grad school for two years to learn theory you will never use?
Those little punk teenagers on skateboards.
People kind of expect you to know things.
If you know enough about how to find information to be a good librarian, you can definitely make more money doing something else.
People automatically assume that you have some weird fetish for cats.
People expect you to help them find things when you are not working just because you know how.
Some people think you are weird because you classify things in your house—like clothes and dishes.
Writing library policy can be about as fun as watching paint dry.
Every great idea you have is likely to get shot down as soon as someone says, "Let's form a committee to decide things."
At some point in your career, someone will, or will try to, physically assault you over something incredibly lame (like not giving him or her more time on the Internet).
Have you ever been on either end of an unrequited love?
Submitted by 怒涛の鮫.
Ah yes, unrequitedness. Pretty much everyone knows my story about this. I don't think I'd want to call it love though. An unrequited opportunity maybe? At the time, I certainly thought that love could be a possibility. I'm not sure. I think I was fairly certain that the timing would never work out, and so I never let myself get that far. Though who knows. Maybe I am just projecting back my feelings now instead of acknowledging what it was I felt then.
Anyway, it isn't the unrequitedness that bothers me now. Looking back (with my 20/20 hindsight), I think that a romantic relationship would have probably been bad between me and this guy. I don't regret that nothing happened between us. But what I do regret, what I feel like the worst part is, is that by being interested him and trying to suss out if he was interested in me, I feel like I ruined a really great friendship.
Starting from freshman year in college, this guy and I were super good friends -- we could hang out and talk about anything, and we would plan how we were going to travel the world together. Sometime before our friendship unraveled he wrote me a really nice email saying something like, When people talk about college, they mention that you'll make friendships that will last throughout the rest of your life -- I think that is the kind of friends we are and will be. So it sucks that because of some unrequitedness that sort of friendship just fizzled away.
That was how many years ago and I'm still bothered by it? Yeesh.
I don't know. A friendship ending is really sad. On some level, I think that people suspect that love relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationships, can have some sort of expiration date -- breakups, divorce, whatever. But friendships end to, but it seems like they shouldn't. I mean, people grow and change, so of course it makes sense that what we look for in friends change too.
But anyway, it's been so long since this friendship ended that it's not like I can just call the guy up and be like, "Hey! Totally not interested in you at all in a romantic sense, even though I was once long ago, but I do miss you as a friend. Whaddya say we start that back up again?" That would be awkward. Plus, if someone called me like that out of the blue wouldn't it be like, "Um, why are you living in the past? Haven't you moved on?"
I have moved on. I am in the best romantic relationship I have ever had. One with someone who always makes time for me when I need him, and who seems to accept me completely, faults and all. And I hope he knows that I love him back in just that same way.
I just sometimes miss this friendship that I had.
I used to think that it was completely my fault that our friendship ended. I'm not so sure about that now -- I'd like to think that we both had something to do with it.
Maybe it's just that our friendship changed and wasn't as strong towards the end as it was at the beginning.
I dunno. I guess I'm just saying, "hey you, if you read this, I miss that friendship, I want you to know I did value it, and I'm sorry that my interest in you caused it to end. I don't say this because I am interested in you romantically in you at all anymore. Just that I think about you from time to time and wonder how you are doing. I hope everything is going well. Maybe we can be friends again sometime, if you'd be up for it. I'd like that."
Or something to that end.
I am having bad luck with pasta today.
I opened my cabinet this morning, and my angel hair was incorrectly positioned so that it fell out of the cupboard, open side first of course, and then fell all over my kitchen floor.
Then, as I was pour my macaroni in the pot to boil, i sort of missed and got a lot of that all over the floor.
i hope this bad luck doesn't carry over into the taste of my mac and cheese.
Why is it so difficult to find really great children's music to use at storytime?
My criteria -
1) It can't be annoying. Well, not overly so.
2) You should be able to do some sort of movement to it - like clapping hands, jumping up and down, etc
3) It should be about a minute -- no more than two.
4) Infants or toddlers should be able to do the movements to it.
Seriously. Why so difficult?
Hooray!!!
Finally!
I final three where I don't really care who wins the money, because they are all pretty awesome!
YAY!
I mean, I have my favorite. But still, any I would be ok with.
yayyayyayyayyayyayyay
