Do they Really Need the Name Tags on the Table?

Castles Burning

Welcome back regular form of insomnia.
Missed you last night!

Thanks to you, I started celebrating Neil Young's birthday early by listen to Massey Hall album at 4am.

Prosecco, Pain killers, Plans, Pamphlet Posts and Pallisers

Friday night.

Made Plans to go to Ann Arbor for Pilgrim holiday ... Put in request for mashed Potatoes even if we don't need more carbs. Made Plans for Posts on the French Pamphlet blog.

Turned my heat on for the first time this season. No "p" there but now I can Pull my Pants down to Pee without freezing.

Downloaded Phineas Finn so I can listen to it while I laze around with my foot elevated and iced this weekend.

Oh, and I ate all of my homemade dill Pickles.

Sidewalk Space

Two of my favorite things I ever found on the sidewalk. Both of them space related.

Palliser Novels

No sleep for me tonight even though I am exhausted. At least this is a variation on my normal insomnia which is waking up at 2 or 3 am. This time I just never fall asleep.

Since I'm up, I am relaxing with one of my favorite books of all time -- Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope. Since it is the first book in the Palliser series, this probably means I will re-read all of them. It has been about a decade, closer to a dozen years, since the last reading. I'm looking forward to this novel project.

Writing in Books

As a rare book librarian, people assume I am against writing in books and think I probably shudder when I see someone turn a corner to mark their page.

I do both of these things all the time.

I like to make a book mine, I don't mind when I drip salad dressing on the pages or when I eat a big juicy cheeseburger and the condiments blob onto my pages, it's part of my memory of reading the book.

Recently, I've been working through Dark Stuff and I've wanted to put the date when I read the book. I've also been curious about when the article was originally written, so I have been checking the credits up front before I start to to read and putting it under the title.

Someone else can take care of creating the archive, this book is MINE!

Brave New World for Batgirl

New job will open up new worlds and new dynamics for me. I've been cloistered in the cataloging workroom for long enough that the full power of know it all, sexist academics had been forgotten.

There have been touches of it, I've been working with "map guys" all along and there is some sense by one or two of them that what I know and contribute is less important than their map guy in-depth knowledge.

But I think in the technology area and working with all these academics in publication related stuff, there will be an steep increase in bullshit.

Had a long conversation with the guy I am taking over from about one of the projects and one of the vendors we work with. He was talking about a prior project where one of the (female) editors and this guy did not get along. I asked what the source of tension was and he paused and said .. "honestly, I think a big part of it was sexism."

Hello 2011!