habitually probing generalist

Cribbed from Angel at The Itinerant Librarian. 1 The book I am currently reading. Like Angel, I usually have more than one book going. I am currently reading the following: The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore; Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces; Hermann Melville’s Billy Budd and other stories; and about a half [...]

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As I wrote here, Sara and I went to Germany for my son’s wedding. It was a wonderful trip but far too short. We left on a Wed. morning and got back home on Mon. eve. We spent the first couple of days with my daughter-in-law’s parents in Fürth in the Odenwald. It was quite [...]

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Jeni Britton Bauer; Artisan 2011 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder Full disclosure: I have yet to actually make anything from this lovely cookbook. Quality ingredients are difficult to find, to say the least, in Sioux City, Iowa. This is a beautifully designed, easy-to-understand cookbook for making some of the best tasting foods I have ever had the privilege [...]

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Last Friday evening Sara and I attended a showcase of local singer/songwriters at the Meet Virginia coffee house in downtown Sioux City.  We thought it would be great to get exposed to some of the local musicians in our new home. The show was scheduled to start at 8 PM so we arrived at 7:20 [...]

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The What Wednesday afternoon I posted the following to my facebook status: I have recently instituted a personal goal of trying to catch up with at least 1 interesting person a week (or so) just to see what’s rockin’ their (LIS) world, whether there are any areas of overlapping interest, if we can challenge/cheer each [...]

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Last Tuesday morning my facebook status said: one year ago tonight. it began in an alley. i love you more than i knew was even possible. ♥ I was sending a personal message as I am wont to do and dropping a hint or two. Tuesday was S and my pre-anniverary. One year previous she [...]

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Drinking with the Troops From a local blog, Urbanagora, comes “Drinks with a Soldier.” I just love how some jackass commentor tries to hide behind the shield of anonymity and call the post author a liar. Certainly there are all sorts of views on this war, including those of the troops fighting it. Perhaps if [...]

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Sunday – Saturday, 4 – 10 May 2008 Wilson, Patrick. 1968. Two Kinds of Power : an Essay on Bibliographical Control. Berkeley: University of California Press. Ch. III : Relevance (Sun) Ch. IV : Bibliographical Instruments and Their Specifications (Mon) Ch. V : Subjects and the Sense of Position (Wed) Ch. VI : Indexing, Coupling, [...]

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What a question. I feel like I need a recap of some of it myself sometimes. I hope to have some semi-substantial blog posts and/or Flickr sets for some of these but I’d like to get them mentioned before they all become old news. [some kind of division] Been watching a fair few movies, started [...]

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Today has been a fairly laid-back day. Considering. I got up at 10-ish and have been on slow ever since. Pauline & Kathryn’s class was having a reading day and I decided to forego more Protégé work this evening in Allen’s class. We will be doing more next week. So I have been giving myself [...]

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