This Side of Lost

Hey, it's the Feast of St. Andrew again. Check last year's post for more information than you really wanted to know about this marvelous day.

I'm back in the thick of all things graduate school related now, after a brief respite for the annual Giving of Thanks. It occurred at the house of Wray -- Dale and Christina, to be specific, who were gracious enough to donate their house, kitchen and several delicious foodstuffs (green bean casserole, lemon meringue pie, pumpkin pie) to the day. Davin and Mari brought the infamous "tofurkey" (interesting), stuffing (pretty good) and vegetarian gravy (different, but good). Samantha and I brought mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes (my favorite), Scholar's Inn Bakehouse bread, and the meat -- a small turkey breast basted in honey apple glaze. All good and all heartily and thoroughly enjoyed.

Now is the last push to the end of the semester. Since I only have two classes, this won't be too bad. My project for the web course, Gary's website (or websites?), is underway, though far from complete -- I give a presentation on it in a week and a half. There is a final project for cataloguing, I think... *shrug* Whatever. I'll get to it eventually. The web site should -- err, I mean, will -- be taking up most of my work time until then.

Did I tell you that my internship is a go? Well, it is. :) I'll be at DePauw University, which is about an hour away in Greencastle, IN, spending some time in the science library doing... well, things that science librarians do. Cool. To this end, I've been trying to nail down a schedule for next semester. And as near as I can tell, I'm going to have to quit my Tech Services job (that's the "glorified mail opener" job) effective January. Which is okay, really -- the job was fine, but I was getting tired of selling 16+ hours of my week for $6/hour. Gary (that's the $10/hour one) will hopefully be upping my hours anyway.

Other Things of Note™:

• We saw Pride and Prejudice (the movie) last Wednesday. Having never read the book, I can't rightly say if it did justice, blah blah blah, but I really liked it. And so did Samantha (who took an entire class on Jane Austen, for goodness sakes). So there.
• My choir had some caroling gigs over the weekend. I don't like Jingle Bells. That is all. Oh, and Samantha came along for one of them, and was marvelous. Apparently she's been singing carols since before she can remember?
• I picked up an interesting book that came through the library mail a month ago. It's called The Pirates! In An Adventure in Whaling. Clearly the title is what sold me. I have since been stumped trying to figure out exactly what is up with the book, as it does not seem to fall into any easy genre classification. About the best I can come up with is this: it's a pretty funny little read (and I do mean little -- the book is pint-size both in dimensions and in page length). Check it out. (It is known by a slighly adjusted title on this side of the pond, apparently.) I've picked up the first one too, which I'll get to when I get tired of Wheel of Time #4.

Back to work. I hate Wednesdays. Come soon, 9 pm. Peace!