| Sorry to leave you all in a cliffhanger there... |
[Sep. 26th, 2006|10:35 pm] |
But thanks for your well wishes. After my kind of top secret, super exciting interview a couple Wednesday ago, they offered me the job the next day! And I negotiated a salary! To something WAY higher than I was expecting!
Yes, negotiated. Yes, because I am selling out. No, I am no longer a public servant as of next Monday. Next Monday, I will be able to join SLA and be working on a huge research/digitization project as a superlibrarian.
Where? Where will I be doing this?
MTV. I am going to be a librarian at MTV on this huge, exciting project and I can barely contain myself.
Selling out to the man never felt so good. |
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[Sep. 7th, 2006|08:35 pm] |
I don't want to mess anything up, but I've been bursting at the seams since Tuesday.
I have two interviews lined up (yes, yes, I still have my jobber) one for a management position at my library.
And one that's supersecret and I'm afraid to jinx but, man, if I could get this jobber or rather, a jobber at this place, I don't know. I'd explode.
So that's it. Two interviews. One tomorrow. One Wednesday. One happy-go-lucky girl with nothing professional to wear, but lots of good things to say and really good legs. That's me. |
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| Atlantic City and me |
[Jun. 24th, 2006|08:43 am] |
Just got back from what TV Programmer called our "starter vacation" aka a couple days in Atlantic City.
Atlantic City.
We had planned on going to Cape May, but sensing that TV Programmer was not as enthused with my birdwatching/nature hike plans, I suggested Atlantic City at 5 in the morning on the day we were supposed to leave. We immediately booked a room at Caesars (You may hear that there is much opulence at Caesars. This is not true. There is, however, no lack of old people.)
Atlantic City. I did not win any money, TV Programmer did not take my craps advice, (Also, how dirty is Craps? Betting on the come line, anyone?). A man with no teeth tried to get me to go somewhere with him because he won 1000 dollars. A convenience store clerk refused to believe I was over 18 and did not sell me cigarettes. I did not sit by a pool. I only stuck a toe in the ocean. We played arcade games in Ocean City, and drank in an Irish Pub with an eighties cover band. There were no fights. There was sitting around in robes and eating peach salsa and chips, while watching Americas Next Top Model, which made up for a failed picnic that included ham juice and melted cheese product.
A good starter vacation. And I mean good, because, even though there was a distinct lack of opulence, there was a good amount of cleavage. |
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| Last night, my birthday, and beyond |
[May. 28th, 2006|07:13 am] |
Last night we got cable. I have not had cable since I was going to graduate school in Pittsburgh, and I spent the time I wasn't writing papers or drinking dirt cheap PBR watching 7th Heaven reruns. But since I started seeing TV Programmer, I learned that not only is cable a priority, but DVR and HBO and HBO on Demand are a MUST.
So last night, my sister, B Sea and I planned to watch various things on cable, drink Sparks, eat chips, and go out to Royale Oak (or see midnight X-men type movies.) I came home from work, and finished two out the three things, but I guess I didn't realize how much the library had taken out of me. I went to lie down for a cat nap at around 10:30, and told my sister to wake me up when she wanted to go out. I think you can see where this story is going.
Anyway, the big news is my birthday is coming up. And the weekend of my birthday coincides with the midnight showing of one of my all time favorite movies about the future (aka 1994) at the Sunshine.
Yes. Oh yes. On Saturday, June 17th! At midnight! If you care about me at all, you will be joining me in watching a piece of cinematic history (well, the movie was choreographed by Nigel Lythgoe, who went on to produce American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance AND judges on that dancing show. Amazing! I just found that out this week) B Sea suggested that we dress up in Apple-esque outfits. I already own my futuristic dress. Time for you to get yours! Please come. Or I will cut you. |
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| Oh. God. I miss you. |
[Mar. 9th, 2006|10:57 pm] |
B Sea is sitting on my couch and talking to Erin on the phone after divulging some news of the most scandalous nature.
I try to tell stories of the three of us together, but I never get it right in words. Someday, soon, I hope, the three of us will be in the same time at the same place. |
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| PSA |
[Jan. 14th, 2006|11:58 am] |
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This is just to say that I brought a HOT professional snowboarder home last night and I have no intention of ever seeing him again. I'm telling you, so hot. Also, I have a second date tonight with a tv programmer. So I'm officially back into the single thing again. Awesome. |
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| If you need a confidence boost... |
[Dec. 30th, 2005|09:45 pm] |
Get your hair cut at Public
Not only did I get an awesome cut/dye job, but every one in the shop kept telling me how cute and striking I was. And also, I have little elven ears. I never knew! The girl who cut my hair was so so so sweet and B Sea and I ran into her again at Fix.
It feels so good to have all that dead weight gone. It's a new Andrea for 2006, for real. Pictures to come.
Also, I found awesome records at Academy today, including the Lindsey Buckingham/Stevie Nicks record! What a rad way to spend a day off. |
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| I am a jerk |
[Dec. 30th, 2005|01:42 am] |
While I was walking home from some bar with my best girl, I noticed I had three messages on my phone.
They were all from my brother. They were all frantic calls from my brother. I am a jerk.
My brother and his wife are visiting the city for their anniversary, and staying in my sister's apartment (she's in Jersey.) I invited them out to Karaoke, and we left around 12. I guess they got home, saw people hanging outside Bed's apartment, and then some guy came out of a car with a gun.
At least they're safe. They came back to my house. I was not home. Because I am a jerk. I should have been there. They came back to Bed's place and there were cops all over the place. They don't think they will be able to sleep tonight. Because they saw a motherfucking gun and I wasn't home to take them in and give them tea and tell them that everything would be okay. I am a jerk. |
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| I'm getting a sinus infection. |
[Dec. 22nd, 2005|11:39 pm] |
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This week I felt a bazillion years old, and it's not strike related. I can't wait to go home. |
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| I would like to avoid the current strike issue so far |
[Dec. 22nd, 2005|12:55 am] |
Because while I stand with my fellow union brothers and sisters (and am jealous that our union is not as strong as the TWU, and if we went on strike, who would care? Those old dudes who fight over Value Line?), but it's really cold out and I keep thinking about all the elderly people, and I guess really everyone walking everywhere, and emergencies. It doesn't effect me, because the libraries contigency plane was to go to the closest Queens, Brooklyn or NYPL branch, so I'm working a couple blocks away from my house. And I use the term "working" loosely. Very loosely. I miss the regulars at my branch, I miss my co-workers, I'm worried about the lady I told to come in on Friday for computer classes instead of Monday because I didn't speak Chinese and she didn't understand my English too much. And the Chinese teacher won't be there if there's still a strike on.
Speaking of libraries, I got a nice letter from the president of NYLA (New York Library Association). You should contact Pataki before he announces his budget in January and tell him to remember to set aside more money for libraries. Here's the email:
On January 4th, the Governor will be giving his State of the State message and by the end of January he will be releasing his 2006-07 Executive Budget.
If you have not already done so, please send a letter to the Governor urging him to include $2.6 million increase in library aid in his Executive Budget. A sample letter can be found on NYLA's website at www.nyla.org under the Contact Your Elected Officials Button.
Also on our Advocacy Page you will find NYLA's Legislative Priorities for 2006, Library Lobby Day Schedule for March 14th and other helpful information.
http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=4
The state will be ending the 2005-06 fiscal year with an estimated $2 billion surplus, the Legislature will be up for election in 2006 and NYLA came very close to securing the $2.6 million increase on top of the $4.5 million restoration in cuts this past Legislative Session.
All of the above factors provide us with fertile ground to achieve our legislative objectives in 2006. However, New York's library community needs to keep up the pressure this coming year. So please send a letter to the Governor, make every effort to attend Library Lobby Day and join your colleagues at NYLA in their advocacy efforts on behalf of the library community.
Only by working together can we achieve success.
Visit http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=90 and become a member today! |
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| I feel like death |
[Dec. 11th, 2005|01:44 pm] |
And I am meeting someone for coffee in under an hour. So far, I have on underpants. Everytime I take a step, I have to lie down and take a breather. This does not bode well for the charming person I wanted to be this afternoon.
But I must. push. on. Person is someone I have not seen in years. Must push on. I can do this. |
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| stop lying to me |
[Dec. 11th, 2005|04:16 am] |
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I think I have a crush on a geometry guy I met tonight. We talk proofs and particle physics. Wild Horse came one and he stopped and said, "this is a great song," and it was deja vu all over again. I told his friend I had a crush on him. I don't know how these things work anymore. My cats are needy. I don't know. Please stop lying to me, tell me the truth. I just got home. Where are you tonight? |
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| What I am thankful for... |
[Nov. 24th, 2005|09:58 pm] |
Sure, in my personal life, there are a lot of things I'm thankful for, many many things not limited to the good talk I had with Jerry today, Bee Sea, my family, Megatron and Optimus Prime, Tom Collins, etc etc etc.
But as a librarian and information professional, I am very thankful for the use of TAGS! There are two sites that I currently use that are based on the use of tags. Number one: del.icio.us That's is, just type del.icio.us in your browser. If you're an internet nerd and/or a librarian like me, del.icio.us is not big, brand new news. If you don't know, del.icio.us is a site where people bookmark sites, and assign tags to those sites. You can see how other people use tags, and how they tag websites that you tagged, and you can also find new websites by searching for tags. I am totally obsessed with this site.
Another site is not an information site, but a dating/networking site. Consumating is different than other dating or networking sites in that people describe themselves with tags. And people looking at your profile can add tags to your profile (Somebody tagged me "heroin_addict." Bee said, well, at least they didn't tag you "ice_cream_addict."). There's also random questions that come up every week, but tags are the thing. Also, you are rated throughout the site on your popularity. People can say whether they like you or not, and then the website tells you how you rank on the site. It's completely shallow, but, being recently single and still living with the ex-boyfriend, shallow is kind of nice right now.
Pretty cool, eh. What are some more tag sites that ya'll like? |
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| My weird dream last night! |
[Nov. 17th, 2005|07:18 pm] |
Last night I had a dream that I ran for the governorship of Minnesota or Montana. I forget which one. Probably Minnesota because Elaine was there. My only competition was some 17 year old kid. Of course I won, but I was really worried about the commute from Brooklyn to Minnesota, because I was fully planing on not leaving Brooklyn. The first thing I did was outlaw shorts. No joke!
I've been dreaming a lot about shorts lately. I wonder what that means, noting my extreme hatred for shorts... |
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[Nov. 17th, 2005|08:24 am] |
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The more I think about it, the more and more I hate people's reliance on Google. Need to find something out, Google it! Blah, hate hate hate. I was showing easy kid databases to kids for some animal project they were doing, and they were like okay, okay, now can we go on the computer and Google this thing. BLAH. As a librarian, I am going to make it my own personal goal to stop people's realiance and absolute trust in Google. I KNOW ALTERNATIVES TO GOOGLE, THEY WILL FIND YOU BETTER INFORMATION! ASK ME, I'M A FREAKIN LIBRARIAN! |
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[Nov. 10th, 2005|08:24 am] |
Dear cats,
How did my bra get in the litter box? Thanks a lot, cats! |
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| I cooked! |
[Nov. 9th, 2005|12:30 am] |
I cooked for the first time in many many months tonight (when your boyfriend/roommate is in culinary school, you can get away with this) in hopes I would get lucky, you know, sexually lucky.
Well, at least my chili and cornbread were delicious, because now Jerry is in the bedroom listening to cockrock and studying recipies while I am watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
But you know, cooking was fun, and not just because I was dancing around in my underpants and an apron to the Thriller record. I don't know why I stopped cooking. I used to cook all the time. And then I didn't really have a kitchen. And then I was in graduate school living off PB&Js and reheated perogies and number 6's from Wendys. And now I live with an aspiring chef. But Sunday, I made pumpkin bread. And today, I cooked chili. Without a recipie, just from memory and whatever cooking smarts I learned from listening to Jerry talk (which I do, okay, it may seem like I'm not paying attention, but I am!) Who knows what will happen tomorrow! |
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| Halloween Stinks |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|08:58 pm] |
I had to work late tonight, so I'm missing the parade (which is one of my favorite things) and I'm trying to call everyone there but everyone is MIA, and there's no way I'm tracking down some party at Coney Island or Bushwick. Halloween sucks this year. Last night sucked a lot, too. I'm going to forget Halloween and throw out my cats' used kitty litter.
I guess I was setting myself up for suckatude since Halloween falls on one of Jerry's class nights, and everyone else is going as cute couple things, and I just couldn't get myself psyched at all this year like I usually am. We went to a costume contest/party last night in one of Rob's genius concoctions and I was a miserable person all night. I don't know when I turned into an old crotchety person. I think it has something to do with yelling at children all day. Or maybe I'm just PMSing. Or maybe I need more pumpkin products shoved down my throat. |
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| Battle Royale |
[Oct. 21st, 2005|10:38 pm] |
Yesterday, at the brary, I found this book, Battle Royale. The cover is attractive, and I've heard of it before, and I was just finishing up a slow (but great!) book, and I needed something fast paced.
I sat down to read it after cleaning up a little,and I got sucked in and I stopped because well, I stopped and looked at the time and it's suddenly well after 10, and I'm completely freaked out by this book and I should not be reading it at night but I cannot stop.
In other words, read Battle Royale! And we can discuss it. Here's the premisis: Set in some alternate world Japan, a junior high class is put on an island by the goverment, and the students are supposed to kill each other until there is one person standing.
I haven't been this freaked out by a book in a long time. Gah. I wish Jerry would come home soon.
In other other news, we're having a party tomorrow. You should come. |
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