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Hear ye, hear ye...http://jen025.vox.com is now http://supermanuscriptgirl.vox.com. Update your links accordingly.

Last weekend I attended that party. The only person I knew when I got there was J, the host of the party. I hadn't seen him in eons, and it was so great to reconnect.

While I was at the party I was explaining my job to a couple of people. One easy way I have found to describe it is to say that I am Manuscript Girl, and I work with Rare Book Boy and Architecture Boy.  J responded to this by saying, "It's like Super Heroes for librarians." And thus was born the new theme for this blog. I initially created this blog on the fly so I could converse with Madelyn. I always intended to spiff it up a bit; it just took a while.

Now I just need a profile pic that is sort of a Marian Librarian meets Wicked Witch on the bicycle combo. Anyone good with Photoshop?

Seen on a car at my apartment complex:

License plate seen more than once in Williamsburg: SHAG EM

I have had some really random thoughts this evening, and decided a blog is the perfect place to record them. This may end up being just a single post; and it may end up being several. We shall see.

Earlier this evening I was watching "Sesame Street" clips on You Tube. Where would we be without You Tube? It is great to be able to re-watch some of my favorite childhood moments. In particular I love the Yip Yip aliens. Uh huh, yip yip yip.

I also watched a few commercials and find myself wondering, what ever happened to ring

around the collar? It was such a problem in the 70s and 80s and seems to have completely disappeared.

A few months ago we had an anniversary party for one of my co-workers. She has been with the library for 10 years. It was a chocolate themed party, and a good time was had by all. This inspired one of my co-workers to plan a Cheese Appreciation Day. Again, yummy. It was followed most recently by Dippable Foods Appreciation Day. I actually didn't participate. Too scared of it becoming Double-dipping Appreciation Day. You may recall "Mr. Humphries" from a previous post. He suggested Green Foods Appreciation Day for this coming Monday. Sadly, workplace rules and regulations prohibit green beer on the premises, but I think it is going to be a good time. I went out tonight and bought white cake mix, white frosting, and food coloring. I'm thinking one shade for the cake, and another for the frosting. Hee hee hee...

"Grey's Anatomy" isn't coming back on until April 24. Gah! Five more weeks. I need my Doctor McDreamy fix. Actually, I have been re-watching my Season 1 dvds. I have Seasons 1 and 3, and have plans to buy Season 2. I just got a 25% off coupon from Barnes and Noble, and am expecting a $25 gift card since my credit card billing period just ended. Can we say just-about-free- dvd!!!

Every once in a while I read the local news in the hometown daily paper. This evening I was reading an article about a Board of Education meeting, and at the end it mentioned, "Also during the meeting, the board of education unanimously accepted the resignations of husband and wife administrators [Ms. X] and [Mr. Y]." WHAT??!!?? Since when are those two married? I thought I knew all the gossip in the high school. It must be a recent thing because I am pretty sure that while I was in high school she was single.
Before Mr. Y rose to his current position of Assistant Principal he was a junior high English teacher. I have two vivid memories from his class. One was when he used Billy Joel's "Storm Front" album to teach us about poetry (very cool) and one is from a vocabulary test. I couldn't remember the meaning of the word 'erroneous'. Then a line from "Singing in the Rain" popped into my head, "Moses supposes his toes are roses, but Moses supposes

erroneously."I'm pretty sure I still did lousy on the test, but I have never forgotten the meaning of erroneous.
Sometime between when Mr. Y was my English teacher and when he became Assistant Principal, he got arrested for DUI. What a fabulous roll model, don't you think?

Every now and then we all need a good ego boost. I'm back in the home state for a long weekend, attending a workshop at Yale on Monday.

I needed to get out of the house this afternoon, so I went over to one of the malls. I walked into Williams-Sonoma and who should be working there but my boss's boss from my old insurance company job. As soon as I saw her I remembered someone had emailed me that she works there now. It was SO great to see her! When I left the insurance company I was pretty sure I had everyone's support. But to have Mary come right out and tell me today that I did the right thing by leaving, was just fabulous! We talked about how we miss the people, but not the stress of the job. We agreed that we didn't realize how bad it had been until we left. Though we didn't chat for long, It was so wonderful to be able to talk openly with her about the situation. She worked for the company for most of her 30 year career. At what turned out to be her final performance review, the woman Mary was reporting to told her she didn't have leadership skills. As if! Reviews are given on a scale of 5, with 1 being the best. Mary was given a 4. Unbelievable, though it is a story I have heard many times in the past few years.

I certainly made some very good friends at my old job. It always hurts when I hear how horribly upper management has been treating them over the past few years. By the same token I am always glad to learn of others who are able to find happiness once they leave Asylum Ave (seriously, that is the street we worked on).

I met a pretty angry man at the recycling center today. Apparently he was going to back in to the spot where I parked, and he was none too happy. He then accused me of putting my containers in the cardboard collection area (I had actually put cardboard there), and rounded off his well honed argument with, "Screw you, lady". After putting my containers and paper in their respective collection bins, I passed him again. I put on a sickeningly sweet smile and said, "Have a nice day". To which he mumbled under his breath, "You have a nice day, too".

Ha. I won.

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My natural instinct upon being woken before my alarm is to look and see what time it is. Therefore, I know that at 3:34 AM this morning, my shoes came crashing down. I didn't know what it was, but I knew something had fallen and that my heart was racing. I think there was a second crash soon thereafter, but that may have just been part of a dream. There was definitely a final crash just minutes before the alarm at 7.

Did I blog about my shoe rack a couple of months ago? I think I did. Soon after I moved here I bought a great shoe rack that fits over the closet door. In my first Williamsburg apartment it didn't work too well. With the rack hanging on the door, I could hardly get into the closet. In this apartment, however, it is as if the closet were designed for a shoe rack. It is a thing of beauty. Well, it was until 3:34 AM.

Not quite sure what to do. I must have shoes. Woman can not live by clothing alone. But I also need my beauty sleep, and I'm not sure I feel like risking another crash.

Oh - remember my recycling dilemma? Soon after I posted about that, I found the local recycling centers. Yea!! Much happier. There is even one that is open on Sunday. It is pretty far away, so I try to remember to go on Saturdays. It was kind of funny the first time I went to the far away one. I drove in and the guy working there immediately knew that I was just there to recycle (as opposed to dumping brush, etc.) He said he can always tell by the nice cars and the pretty little ladies driving them. It was pretty true. I was the only woman there, and the only one not driving a pickup.

Alrighty, time to put my shoes in their place.

It is kind of funny to follow the "first bike to work of the year" post with a "first snow" post, but that's the way things seem to work here in the south. We are only supposed to get 1-2", but I'll take what I can get. It finally feels like winter. I even walked to the grocery store for milk and whipped cream so I could make hot chocolate. I have a mint hot chocolate mix from Trader Joe's which is quite enjoyable.

I just love when everything turns white!

Never before have I biked to work in January. It was so incredibly nice out today - in the mid 70s! I really didn't have enough daylight for the trip home, but for those of us from the north, being able to bike in January is so unusual that we have to take advantage of it. I got to wear my new, neon yellow socks. So much fun.