Share In the spring of 2008, upon breakup with TheEx, I moved back home with my ‘rents1 for the first time since my early 20s. This was to be a temporary arrangement, a stop gap until I moved to Detroit in January of 2009 to finish library school. All of my belongings, consisting mainly of [...]
Posts under ‘2010’
So, You Want To Be A Librarian/Archivist: Job Hunt Part III: 75 and counting.
Share Since I’ve got a number of entries in draft format that are more or less about the same topic (various statuses/commentary of The Great Job Hunt, 2010 ™), I thought it would be easier to write one entry in bullet form then pontificate endlessly on. This is how I roll. As I mentioned before, [...]
To: Consume: Recipe – The Throbbing’s Granola Mix
Share I had not realized finding a granola recipe that we liked would be that difficult – it’s oats, nuts, dried fruits and whatever else is thrown in the mix. How fucking hard can finding a decent recipe be? Apparently, damned difficult: Finding a recipe that doesn’t depend on granulated sugars, preservatives or some form [...]
To: Make: Knitting – iTardis, an iPod cozy (v1.0)
Share Roughly about 18 months ago, Lindsay sent me a link to an Etsy page of a seller showcasing their knitted Tardis iPod/iPhone cozy. Lindsay, in her infinite cuteness, said, ” Make me this!” The design and concept of the Etsy version was pretty poor: The person essentially knitted (with acrylic yarn no less) a [...]
Reviews: Books: Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict #everythingausten
Share [Cross-posted to GoodReads and LibraryThing. The entry chronicling my #everythingausten list, has also been updated.] Several years ago, while working at $corporate_bookstore, I came across Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler which promised a fresh perspective in the Jane Austen paraliterature canon. I had been burned before by authors who [...]
30 something. Punk rock librarian and archivist. Sassy. Waffle. Pug owner. World traveler. Pierced.
Tattooed. Tall. Music and book lover. Discriminating Guinness tasters. Aging, alternative hipster. Eco-conscious. Geek. Equally in love with James Bond and Jane Austen.
