Day: June 28, 2007

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Welcome to My Brain

Shelly

I’ve been working on a bunch of books from Ethiopia. As I was tooling around Classification Web, looking for an appropriate subject and call number for one of them, I had a weird disconnect. I’d settled on Occupations–Ethiopia, which was fine. Only, when I went to find a call number to go with my nice, shiny, new subject, my brain suddenly decided that occupations–something that two seconds before it had understood perfectly well to mean jobs–were something of the military invasion variety. For a moment, I was confused to find myself in the HBs (economic theory and demography). That’s not the funny part, though. When I went back to the book, I had a “What the hell does this have to do with military invasions?!” moment.

Need more sleep and caffeine!

Also, this is Milton’s fault, oh yes, it is.

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Veggies

Shelly

A coworker has a ginormous garden that’s producing more than her family can eat, so she’s been bringing sacks of veggies to work with her: zucchini, summer squash, cucumbers, and a variety of peppers. These are not the baseball bat sized zucchini that folks try to foist off on friends, relations, and innocent bystanders, either. They are tiny, baby veggies, with delicate skins and tender flesh. They are far superior to anything I’ve seen in the grocery store, and are organic, too.

She said that she’ll have tomatoes soon. I cannot wait. Grocery store tomatoes are ghastly imitations of the real thing. I remember real tomatoes, and I have high hopes that these will live up to my expectations.

Crankypantsing, Meta

Flickr

Shelly

My Flickr Pro account expired today, so everything has reverted to freebie account status. I’m seriously tempted to ditch Flickr completely, because they are tied to the heinous Yahoo-SBC-AT&T megacorporateclusterfuck. Every interaction I’ve had with AT&T has been worse than the last, so I’m really not interested in giving another penny to them or to any company they have assimilated.

On the other hand, Flickr is a great networking opportunity. On the other-other hand, I’m not using it to its advantage, so why bother? And, it’s not like I need the web space, because my host provides a metric butt load of it.

(Guess what? It’s 9:59 pm and it sounds like Mr. Upstairs is finally getting out of bed. This means he should be hitting the treadmill by about 2am. The treadmill is, I may or may not have previously mentioned, directly above my bed. I have to get up at 4am. That’s not gonna happen if he wakes me up again. I know that, because every day this week I’ve slept through my alarm and been about 30 minutes late for work. I expect I’ll be late tomorrow, too. I ought to send him a bill for missed work hours.)