If god had wanted me to be different from how I am, he would have made me different.
- Greg Payne, musician, Tokyo

Note to Self

When you have to get up a completely unreasonable hour, don't have coffee at 8 pm.


I've been hermitting again and not getting a lot done. I've been making all kinds of cool beaded stuff (my current craft fixation) but my house is a disaster. I miss people.

Work, as always is crazy. I'm, for the moment, the senior full time person in my position. The two who've been there longer are on leaves. It scary on one hand. I've only been there 3 years (in a job where its not uncommon to be there for over a decade). But on the other hand, I know what I'm doing. I can answer most of the other worker's questions.

Oh, and our boy mouse died yesterday. I'm not really broken up over it but its just one more thing.

Tires

This week has been about getting new tires on my car. See, last fall, on the first really icy evening, I took a corner too fast and slid into a curb and bent a rim. Now I know I should have had it replaced then (I can only imagine what the vibration has been doing to the front end) but I'm a procrastinator and it didn't really do too much unless you were driving the car between 80 and 90 km/h. A couple of weeks ago, bumped a curb pretty hard when I was parking and the tire wouldn't hold air for more than 2 days since then so it was really time to do something about it.

Last Monday, I decided I would go to Pick and Pull (an auto wrecker where you go pull your own used parts off their vehicles that are up on blocks) and get some new rims (one to replace the bent one and one to replace the "donut" spare, don't even get me started on trying to drive on one of those). I've never been to Pick and Pull but my dad told me I shouldn't have any problems so I took my tire iron and put on my helpless damsel face and braved the testosterone pit. I found the sort of car I was looking for and tried to loosen the lug nuts. But the wheels just spun around and I couldn't get enough torque to loosen the bolts. After about 10 minutes of frustrated cursing, a helpful fellow came by and showed me that if you put the emergency brake on, the wheels don't turn. Gratefully I loosened the bolts and he went on his way. I got all the nuts off and tried to pull the tire off. It wouldn't budge. I tried to pry it off with the crowbar part of the tire iron; no go. I kicked it; no go. I must have pulled and kicked and grunted and swore for 20 minutes. Sadly the helpful fellow seemed to have disappeared and there were no others to be had. In frustration I left them where they were and went to see if I could find another car. No dice. I came back to my rims and tried some more, still they wouldn't budge. I started poking around the car to see if I could find anything helpful. In the trunk there was a wheel and there was another one on the ground beside the car. Note to self: Sometimes it pays to look around.

Yesterday I bought tires and got them put on. Now for those brakes...

Grump!

Today is my first shift working until 11 p.m. Mostly it blows! By the time I got to work at 3:30, felt like I'd already had a full day and I still had to put in my time a at work. Grrrrr!! The only good thing is that its totally dead. Hiopefully this will continue and we won't have to be open so late next semester.

On a bright note, I'm going to get to go to Phantom tomorrow.

Orange Tree

I went to see the "Illusionist" last night with Pixie and J. It has Edward Norton and Jessica Biel in it and is about a 19th century stage magician who uses his illusions to steal the crown prince of Austria's girlfriend. Its AMAZING!! Its beautifully shot and the story is fascinating. Go see it.

My Super Power works again.

Sly Killer Dust Bunnies

This week has been the quietest Registrations weeks I've seen. For the last 3 days we've all been looking for things to do. It makes me dread Tuesday; new students will have to get their ID cards sometime and I suspect may will think the first day of classes is a good time. Oh joy!

On the plus side, while we were slow this week, we were able to complete shifting the Main collection. I'm just glad its done. I also discovered some killer ust bunnies that I'm positive had teeth. These things were the size of golf balls! And there was a time I thought working in a library would be a clean job; what blissful ignorance...