Meghan: Librarian-in-Training

Obsessing over: Tickets to see Death of a Salesman with Philip Seymour Hoffman. Can someone tell me how and/or why the ‘cheap seats’ are $97? Looks like I might be taking a long lunch and use my student ID before it expires to get the student rush rates.

Working on:  A school project about Encyclopedia Britannica and their massive fail where they refused Microsoft’s offer to be their CD-ROM enclylopedia of choice and their need to not hurt the ‘traditional way of selling’.

Thinking about: How terrible are televised news programs? It is all death, violence, household scares, weather, and movie reviews. No wonder I read the news - less sensationalism.

Anticipating:  A fantastic weekend in Boston with Alan. I am finally going to the Kennedy Library. I am so, so, so excited!

Listening to: The Belle Brigade, the brother/sister duo is pretty much amazing.

Eating:  The Gouda I brought back from Holland. It is so buttery and rich.

Wishing: Teletransportation was real. I’d love to go have dinner with a few friends back west right now. Just a nice girls night with food and wine.

This post was inspired by Danielle at Sometimes Sweet.

A brief commentary on the nurse.

From what I can tell, he is caring for three patients in the neuro critical care unit. He does so swiftly and with great care. He has humor when appropriate and concern when necessary. He answers my endless and sometimes repetitive questions thoroughly and without haste.

I understand this is his job. I understand he works with families just like mine all the time.

What I’m saying is, I appreciate it. Thank you, Jason.

This week takes me from Miami to New York to Indianapolis; from 75 and sunny to 15 and snowy.

This week:

- I had brunch with 3 of the greatest friends
- started my last semester of library school
- I picked up another cold
- attended a fantastic birthday party
- relaxed, & watched football

Tonight, I need to:

- pack 
- fix my fingers and toes

Retrieved a present from the post office.
Good workout at the gym.
A walk through the city in 60 degree weather.
Found a few cute pieces for my trip to Miami next weekend.
Travel snafus worked themselves out.
Football on the sofa with the kitties and Alan.

Twenty nine. 

Around my twenty seventh birthday, major changes started happening. I vowed on that birthday that I was going to take control of my life and do what needed to be done. Two years later, I can happily say I was true to myself. I will admit these two years have been amazing. As I begin my thirtieth year I don’t have any regrets or fears about the big three-oh. A list of birthday resolutions for this year:

• buy more items made in America
• travel at every opportunity
• remember that quality trumps quantity
• be more understanding (friends don’t always call, people hurry for different reasons, sometimes life isn’t fair)
• be kind (to myself, to my loved ones, to strangers)

This sums up my Thanksgiving break very, very well.

The Doctor loves to help me put my clothes away. 

1. Cook 5 4 3 2 new dishes.

2. Write one article and submit it to a small library journal.

3. Stick my feet in the Pacific Ocean.

4. Finish The Hunger Games series.

5. Finalize the January Girls’ Trip

6. Finally make it to the Met for a proper look-around.

7. Help to throw one badass, literary party.

8. Sew one (wearable) dress.

9. Mail holiday cards. (2011’s might be on my nightstand…still.)

10. Find a table for the record player.

11. Add two art pieces to the apartment walls.

12.  Put all my recipes into an organized binder.

What are your 12 before 2012?

This is today.

Mind you, today is a holiday and all I am working on is homework. 

Homework on a Sunday makes me feel like I’m in high school again. Ah, research methods.

If anyone is wondering what I need want for my birthday; feel free to put in an offer.

In 68 days, I enter my 30th year. Yikes.

This is a really great list.

We climbed Black Bear Mountain. We found magic mushrooms, and then Alan cast a spell on the people of Inlet, NY. Our lake house in on the lake in the background. The spell worked FYI. meghanandthebeard

Video chatting with my Aunt Phyl.