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Who likes the rain?

That's about enough of that, thank you. Ok, stop now. Really. Argh! Fine....I'll go get my umbrella.

Let's see...it's been pretty random lately. I finally got my library computer back with a new fan to keep it running. So, that's been good.

Tonight will be the first night of "Changeling", the new game that our guest GM is leading for my group. It's actually "DM's" game tonight, but since we're not meeting next week ('we' = my group), we can meet this week and it will be fun and quiet(er). In a strange twist, last week my group focused as we made the character sheets, and a nearby group (who shall remane unamed...) turned loud and obnoxious. See, loud I don't mind, obnoxious bugs me. :)

The Producers is out on DVD now! We watched it a couple of days ago, and it was fun! Fun! Richard Kind's cameo was very funny, I had to stop the film and explain to Allegra what was great about it. She loved it (and sang along very quietly).

Speaking of Allegra singing...she's signed up for chorus next year. Yay!! She's also signed up for band, which turned into this huge stressful thing for her when asked what instrument to play. So, I talked about the various instruments with her, then we listened to some music that featured them to hear their sound, finally she got to try out my old saxophone (I did not feel like digging out el trumpet or flute at the time, so she didn't get to try those out). I'm just kind of distancing myself from this choice because I'm afraid she's going to try and choose something to make me happy and I don't want to see that happen. Besides I know that's like, growing up with a Dad who was a professional musician and intimidating to practice around and Mom who was determined to prove that my sister and I had inherited his musical talents who shoved us into every single musical thing so that she could have a little spotlight splash....yeah, so, I'm letting Allegra lead this one. Which reminds me....I was supposed to drag out the bass recorder so she could see what that was like (after a few months of recorder experience in school she's pretty sure she's an expert on recorder).

Fun AND random:

I love hamsters.

Oh, how I love this Lord of the Rings spoof and wish it were longer.

What I've read lately: I can't believe I haven't done this for a while. I've certainly read more than enough stuff to fill it out. Oh yeah, that's why...I'm out of time, so nevermind, I promise a longer book report later.

Not that I have all that much to share

First off, if you're not watching the daily upates of Ze Frank, you're missing out on knowledge (and duckies).

Secondly, congratulations Jess and Myles! You get to work with me this summer in the super-cool library! Now, Myles, this means you'll be on time, right? ;->

This may be the shortest post from me ever. Mostly I just wanted to congratulate Jess and Myles.

I'm glad to see you're all surviving through finals and packing up and moving back. It's amazing to think that a first year is already over. There's kind of this surreal end-of-Harry-Potter-ish feeling about it. Strange...



I was wrong, one more thing, a MirrorMask video set to the Paranoia Agent opening theme.

Partly sunny with a 30% chance of 'meh'

I'm doing ok. Not 'brilliant', 'spectacular', 'inspired', or 'horrible', just pretty good and, well, meh.

Oh yeah, happy Free Comic Book Day! Wheeee.....freebies! Oh yeah. Actually, my favorite hobby store and all-around happy random RPG elves at Toy City gave me a giant box and a half of freebie comic books. Kyle and I had a great time going through them. I need to scan some just for entertainment value. There was at least one Mr. T comic, and on the first page (after Kyle and I repeating the classic Mr. T line, "I pity the fool!") was Mr. T proclaiming: "You ARE the fool!" The comic then proceeded to kick butt, all the while wearing lots of gold-plated jewelry and inserting messages of an anti-drug and stay in school nature....and plenty more fool pitying. If you missed Free Comic Book Day today, don't fret! Stop by tomorrow, maybe your favorite comic book store will have a few more goodies to give out that they don't want to hold onto for another year.

The library has been busy, busy, busy!! We're massively short-staffed, but it's working out right now. Of course, by short-staffed I do mean the upstairs. Unfortunately, it means that if I need to be out of the library there is likely no other coverage, so there is little off time for me. As long as I don't get sick or hit by a bus, we're all good.

AnimeBoston is coming up! Wahooo! It will be fun in its own special, hyperactive, thickly-inked, big-eyed way....*twitch*.

And summer is almost here! Which means I'm in last-minute mode for summer reading program planning. It'll happen. Soon. Probably this weekend. I just need to sit down with the summer reading plan, my calendar, a computer, and email and I'll get this whole summer nailed down. Revisiting the library thing above, I guess the short-staffing has affected me a bit as I get to do the tasks that were being done upstairs by someone else who is no longer here (:::happydance:::), which means that my time for working on my stuff is a little bit shorter. Plus there's a huge grant I've been working on - doing writing and editing for the one person who is writing the whole thing.

Munchkin has taken over my D&D group. Oh yeah, that groovy little (hilarious) Steve Jackson game has become a weekly "wanna play?" I've added to our collection with "Star Munchkin" (Kill the monster, steal the treasure, stab your buddy [in space]), and today I got "Clerical Errors" which has awesome cards like: "Fowl Fiend", "Tequila Mockingbird", "The Other Ring", "Rapier Twit", "Resident Weevil", and "Big Honking Sword of Character Whupping" - among other hilarious, witty, and questionable cards. However, it doesn't end there!! When some of you early getting-back-from-school set get here - if you would still like to join the games - I have a guest DM leading for a few weeks a game called "Changeling". It's a D10 game set in an urban fantasy setting. Barney, the guest DM (also the guy that is primarily responsible for writing that grant I mentioned above, which is how I got to know him) has been describing this game to me and it sounds very, very cool. He was telling me one story of how a Changeling knight was sent on a mission to kill the monster under the bed. Basically, this game shall be awesome in a Holly Black's 'Tithe' or Neil Gaiman's 'Neverwhere', or a "War for the Oaks" kind of way. W00t!

I also realized I'm really, really tired lately. I can't imagine why.....
I'm sure that has nothing to do with it....

I love this video. Turn your speakers on for this one. Yes, it's true - after seeing this technique I have used it at least once intentionally, because sometimes one just needs a little passive aggressive venting. I think Ze is a bit of a genius really; my argument: this (yes, click on the link at the beginning of this paragraph first! Sheeesh).



And that's it for me - the blog machines is going off.

This just in....

Last year's Compass School Lock-In - as a note to this picture I'd like to point out that Jay placed second in the Beauty Contest. Go, Jay!