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Crazy Dream

I don’t know if it’s something I ate or what, but I’ve had the craziest dream. My Immersion 06 classmates and I were competing to create gourmet drinks (mine had something to do with cola and canned fruit with ice… but it was so much more complicated than that, and probably just as revolting as that sounds), and Tim Gunn from Project Runway was judging us.

I’d just been told to “make it work,” when I discovered I had to blow my nose, so I used a tissue from a pile I found in one corner of the table. I had no idea that this was the center piece of a creation by Jason, and apparently he thought I’d deliberately sabotaged his project. He was so mad that he ground up a glass ball (like the ones you hang on Christmas trees) into my drink!

All I can say is that I would never knowingly sabotage your tissue-esque greatness, Jason. Please don’t try to kill me with tiny shards of glass.

I think I’ll try to get more sleep in the next few days, and maybe drink soothing tea before bed. Though there’s no break in my schedule for a bit yet. Hmmmm…. Maybe I’ll just have to put up with wacky dreams for a bit.

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Empty

I have so much to do… but I’m not doing any of it well. My house is too empty. My cat isn’t in a mood to warm my lap. And work reading is a far cry from the “good book” that should be going with my cup of tea. If I lived in a city I might go to a coffee shop or something, but I don’t. And besides, it’s cold outside. And dark.

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The Best Antidote to a Snowy Morning: Getting Published!


It was a dark and dreary morning when I got to work today to find a large envelope waiting for me. “Another publisher’s catalog,” I thought, as I opened it.

But it wasn’t a catalog. It was a stack of copies of an article I wrote with one of my library school professors and which has just been put out by Online Information Review. Suddenly the day doesn’t seem quite so dark and dreary.

Zhang, Jin and Iris Jastram. “A Study of Metadata Element Co-Occurrence.” Online Information Review. 30.4 (2006): 428-453.

p.s. This is also my 200th post!

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The Weather Here Hates Me

Saturday night there were huge storms here. I love a good thunderstorm, but I hate the thought of tornados, especially since my building doesn’t have a basement. (No tornados touched down near me, but there was a doozy up north of me and now a little girl is dead.)

After those storms the temperature fell from 83 (28 degrees Celsius) on Saturday to 63 on Sunday. Today’s high is forecast to be 53 (8 degrees Celsius).

All this means that I feel awful. My old injuries all ache, my back hurts, my head hurts… I feel like I’m getting a really bad case of the flu, but I’m pretty sure it’s just the weather. Ick.

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