Posted in Daily Life, Library, tagged recorder, three blind mice, Hell, Aaaag! on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been making the rounds of the local elementary schools, talking up the summer reading club.
On one school visit, I passed a classroom where a teacher was bellowing out, “A, G, F….!” repeatedly as her class of 23 grade schoolers were all blowing unmusically on recorders. All I could think of was, “What horrible thing [...]
Posted in Random, tagged do you know where that's been, toad on May 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ah, spring…..and once again many a young man’s thoughts have turned to: “what kind of freaky, weird crap can I ingest to make me high?!”
Which brings us to today’s advice: DON’T LICK TOADS! Really. Don’t.
Or anything that is produced from toad by-products. No crunchy frog chocolates for you.
And just how desperate do you have to be [...]
Posted in Random, tagged laundry, money, useless knowledge on May 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Yep. I did it. I laundered money.
It turns out there was a dollar bill stuck in my jeans and it went through the washer and dryer. I’d like to say that the whites were whiter but really it just looked a bit faded and crumpled. However, it got me thinking…”just what ARE these bills made [...]
Posted in Daily Life, Random, tagged camp songs, folklore, greasy gopher guts on May 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
No, no…not a post about colds, I assure you. Instead, I found this great book called Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood by J. Sherman and T. Weisskopf.
How can you resisit a title like that?! They complied lists of all the chants and songs we used when we were kids. The memories [...]
Posted in Library, tagged changes, computer troubles, computer whisperer on May 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
–Yes, the blog looks different. I’m experimenting with a new format, so it may change again.–
While I do enjoy the benefits that computers have brought to the library (quick searching, databases, book editing) for librarians, I am also wistfully wishing for those times when you didn’t have to deal with endless computer questions.
Because it’s not [...]
