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Keeping up … with people

February 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments

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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Tags: CAS Project · Conversation · Food and Drink · Friends · Librariana · My Life

It Began In An Alley

May 18th, 2009 · Comments Off

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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Tags: Food and Drink · Friends · My Life

Some things about the new year

January 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Not sure where this blog is going this year. I said some things last year about where I wanted to take it / thought it might go and it got nowhere near any of those places. I read through all of my posts for 2008 on the 1st and 2nd. Wow! What a year! Talk [...]

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Tags: Books · Friends · Job search · My Life · WordPress · Work

Tis just a wee fuss for my friend Pikas

September 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Today is Christina Pikas’ (of Christina’s LIS Rant) birthday.  Seeing as I’ll be seeing her in pretty much exactly a month at ASIS&T and she’ll be able to personally kick me for this, I decided to write her a little birthday ditty. Tis just a wee fuss for my friend Pikas I awoke this morning [...]

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Tags: ASIS&T Annual Meeting · Friends · My Life

Love letter to an ex-girlfriend

July 19th, 2008 · Comments Off

I went back through my posts of the last two months and there isn’t much explicit mention of the best distraction a boy could ask for. I think the first (and one of 2, maybe 3) explicit reference is in the post “Living room talk.” There are certainly several other references that were mostly for [...]

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Tags: Communication · Conversation · Friends · Music · My Life

O, most frabjous day

July 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Things have sort of “settled down” around here; here being the blog. Related things in my daily life got “interesting” and have only progressed. Today was a most enlightening day. [Yes, Christina, that "interesting" was purposefully vague, and for you.  ] Wow. What to say, or not say? Been working on this for a while [...]

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Tags: Communication · Education · Friends · Language and word issues · Librariana · My Life · Professionalism · UIUC

Stargazing

June 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

the man sat gazing awed by the vast firmament night after endless night terrified, alone years rolled by friends came friends went his children grew and the world changed around him the stars, they were too many one May evening in the endless procession of months in an Alley the man and a friend sat [...]

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Tags: Friends · My Life · Story

I am a patriot

June 16th, 2008 · Comments Off

I. Am. A. Patriot—not to be confused with a nationalist—but today, once again, I loathe my country and the vast majority of its citizens. This great and grand country and its citizens have once again sent my child to war. I will not forgive you.     Us. Please do not in any way misunderstand [...]

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Tags: Family · Friends · Military and War · Morality · My Life · Society

Living room talk

June 15th, 2008 · 6 Comments

* with a hat tip to Dorothea (see below) In which I proudly proclaim and rant as if we were simply sitting here in my living room chatting as the friends we might be, if given the chance. Jeremy and trip to central Texas Again, thank you from the entirety of my heart to all [...]

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Tags: Conversation · Family · Film · Friends · Military and War · My Life · Travel

Shh!

May 13th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I got a quick IM from a friend the other night wondering how I was doing as I have been quiet lately. Yes. Yes I have. There are a lot of reasons for this. Some of it is lack of time to do all the things I’d like to. There are probably other reasons, too, [...]

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