I have a massage in an hour and a half... ah!  Absolutely delightful.
I'm relaxed just thinking about it.

Word of the Day

Some of you may know my delight with new words, like vaguebooking and histrionics.  Here's my newest fave:

Chexting

By Zorianna Kit

Golf superstar Woods and TV celebrity James, who is married to Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock, have seen their lives unravel amid revelations of cheating on their spouses, in part by arranging liaisons via text messages.

Their affairs have spawned a new word in pop culture, chexting, and raised the question of whether it really is cheating on a spouse. The experts say, you bet it is.

"It's lipstick on the cellular -- digital proof that becomes evidence you've been unfaithful," says Peter Dedman of Predicto Mobile, the largest paid mobile community in America.

Definitely cheating.  Chexting.

Most of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

-George MacDonald

What prevents me from being genuinely true - reflecting the reality of my heart in all its beauty, brokenness, ugliness, joy, anger, meanness, hope, and mystery?  What fearfulness holds me captive?

I flipped the calendar over to April last night, and saw this...

...picture of little princess beside her buck-skin knight in shining armour.
Before I hung it up, I flipped through all the other pages...

...nostalgia.

...a revival of passion.
...a "remembering" of why I'm taking a course overload to finish my degree

...a deep love for each of these kids, and the many not pictured.

I miss my second home.

A weekend's simple joys

Laughing in excess at the seminary games night.
Meeting and laughing with a roomful of people at the sem. games night.
Sleeping in.
Smoothie and granola for breakfast.
My teapot full of licorice tea.
Watching Bones and Criminal Minds online, and doing absolutely nothing.
Warm sunny days.
My seat in the library.
The knowledge that I'll be headed home in just under a month.
It's been a good day.

you know you're a library geek when...

1. You know the working schedule of all library staff, and if they are unsure when they are next scheduled to work, they ask you.

2. The head librarian assumes that you'll walk her out to her car after the library closes on Friday night.

3. A chair/general area is staked out as "yours", and if someone is sitting there when you arrive, they apologize, saying something like, "Oh, I'm sorry - I'm in your chair... but I was just leaving, so you can have it."

4. You hear a thump, bump and "ouch" on the other side of the library, and you know exactly who fell off their chair.

5. A group of students from your classes drops by "your chair" with increasing frequency as the semester progresses to ask for study help and advice on assignments.

6. You spend more time in the library than you do in your bedroom at least six days a week.

7. Your primary social life is with other library geeks in the library.  Your day looks something like this... wake up and prepare for day, go to library, go to class, eat lunch, return to library, go to class, eat supper, go to library until closing, go to gym, go to bed.

8. On Saturdays, you bring a thermos of tea, your go-mug, five or so texts, all your course syllabi and assignments, and plan to settle in for the day.

*I do not meet all the requirements of a library geek.  It's really a good life.  No complaints.

**Thanks for this list in part to Kelsey and Amanda, who DO fulfill all the requirements of a library geek, and began compiling a list last year.

A Picture is Worth...

A picture is worth a thousand words.  Or so they say.

These guys gamble millions of dollars the truth of that statement.  They pay big bucks to own your eyeballs for thirty seconds.  You call them commercial breaks.
A thousand words?  Or a thousand dollars?
Or more?  More on this later...