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Friday, 02 October 2009
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Things that are awesome
-- my HUGE walk-in closet that's practically a 2nd bedroom
-- my new dining room table & chairs
-- being approximately 2 minutes from Target, Best Buy, Walmart, a mall, movie theater, grocery stores, etc
-- having cable once again
-- the new tv series FlashForward
-- the fact that everywhere I go in the Chicago area plays awesome music (the pancake place - David Gray; Jewel-Osco while shopping for groceries - Otis Redding)
-- the super-friendly people who helped me as I ran around town on confusing errands
-- getting the first issue of VOYA ("the library magazine serving those who serve young adults") in the mail today (FRIDAY) when I signed up for a subscription MONDAY (pretty sure)
-- my new co-workers who have all been really nice & welcoming in the emails I've gotten
-- being about 40 minutes from Lake Michigan
-- stumbling upon a Freakylinks marathon on tv
-- meeting the neighbor who lives across the hall - an older woman named Faye who babysits her cute grandson named Joey
-- Neil Patrick Harris
The End.
P.S. Total random note that few people will understand -- Jimmy Fallon just said that on Monday they're going to have a "Yacht Rock" party where you dress up in appropriate clothes, pretend you're on a yacht, & listen to real smooth music. Um, I'm pretty sure this is actually a "Love Boat" theme...aka..."You look like you just stepped out of a Gap commercial." :)
Monday, 01 June 2009
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Booklists
I am so obsessed with booklists! It doesn't even matter where it's from really - just as long as there's a group or list of children's or YA books (sometimes I'll look at adult ones) with little blurbs about them and maybe cover art, I'll check it out. Lately I've been trying to catch up on my reading (like a good [unemployed] librarian) but the moving hasn't helped. I'm getting back into it. Last night I finished the 3rd book in the Echo Falls Mystery series ("Into the Dark"). These are really fun, quick reads -- shoot, I should probably discuss this over at http://whatsonyourshelf.wordpress.com/, another blog I've been neglecting. Anyway, in my process of catching up, I figure I should really get to reading what is REALLY popular and what I definitely should have read. Jen answered my twitter question about what I should read (thanks Jen!) by suggesting Newbery books. I'm not sure how many I've actually read, so here's the list. NOTE: This is more for me than for you, so feel free to stop reading here. :)
2009 Medal Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Honor Books: The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
Honor Books: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt [READ- enjoyed a lot]
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron [READ- liked]
Honor Books: Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Rules by Cynthia Lord
2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
Honor Books: Whittington by Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Honor Books: Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
2004 Medal Winner: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo
Honor Books: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Honor Books: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Honor Books: Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson
2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck
Honor Books: Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Books: Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
1999 Medal Winner: Holes by Louis Sachar
Honor Book: A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse [READ- liked it]
Honor Books: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine [READ- LOVE!!]
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Honor Books: A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Honor Books: What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis [READ: liked it]
Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
1995 Medal Winner: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Honor Books: Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
1994 Medal Winner: The Giver by Lois Lowry [READ- LOVE]
Honor Books: Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
1993 Medal Winner: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Honor Books: What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor [READ- liked it]
Honor Books: Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi [READ- liked it]
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Honor Book: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi [READ- liked it]
1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry [READ- liked it a lot]
Honor Books: Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Honor Books: In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Honor Books: After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman [READ- a long time ago]
Honor Books: A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber
1986 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan [READ?]
Honor Books: Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
1985 Medal Winner: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Honor Books: Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
1984 Medal Winner: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Honor Books: The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt [READ]
Honor Books: The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
Honor Books: Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal
1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson [READ- liked]
Honor Books: The Fledgling by Jane Langton
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle [READ]
1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
Honor Book: The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
1979 Medal Winner: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin [READ- LOVE LOVE LOVE!]
Honor Book: The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson [READ- liked]
1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson [READ- liked]
Honor Books: Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater
OK, this is where I quit. It's shameful... I need to stop listing and start reading!
Saturday, 02 May 2009
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Birthdays
So today was my birthday, and it was pretty fabulous. It got me thinking about my last few birthdays. Or at least as many of them I could remember. Today I was playing a fun game when it turned from April to May, got a Happy Birthday text at 6:10 AM, several phone calls and lots of FB, twitter, & AIM messages, read part of a Meg Cabot book outside in a park, went to Micky's for dinner with Lauren & Amber, and enjoyed a HIMYM marathon with ice cream & cake. Oh, and Lauren & I spontaneously stopped at a cheap clothing store and bought a few things including berets. Seriously, berets. But they don't so much look French and weird. More adorable and awesome. :) So a pretty darn good day.
Last year included a Lauren coming into my room right at midnight to wish me happy birthday with a candle and birthday present, many phone calls, FB, & AIM messages, sitting in 2 classes for 5 hours -- the second one included an awesome surprise party with food hosted by Sarah & Amber, watching a brand-new episode of The Office, and then dinner at Applebee's the next day when we had more time.
The year before: dinner at Applebee's with many SEMO friends
2006: the year I turned 21 -- Heidi & Lauren & I ate ice cream & watched tv - I'm guessing an ABC Family movie. Not the typical 21 birthday, but I loved it. It was perfect for me.
2005: I think my b-day was on a Sunday, so Mom & Dad & Jenna came down to SEMO to take me out to dinner & bring me cake. Then I shared my cake with Lauren & Heidi, who took it to a meeting where people were jealous. :)
I'm not sure I remember any further back, but that's ok because these last 4 have been pretty great.
Thursday, 30 April 2009
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Random Meme
You go into the grocery store to pick up 5 items. You can only pick one thing from the following departments. What do you buy?
1. Produce: apples or grapes, depending on my mood
2. Bakery: rolls
3. Meat: pork chops
4. Frozen: ice cream!
5. Dry goods: CheeriosLet’s say you are heading out for a warm weekend getaway. You’re only allowed to bring 3 articles of clothing with you.
So, what’s in your bag?
1. capris or skirt
2. t-shirt
3. flatsIf I was to listen in on one of your conversations throughout the day, what 4 phrases or words would I be most likely to hear?
1. “Hey, how was your day?”
2. “What's your CPH?”
3. “The [CLIP] calendar” (In response to "What are you working on?")
4. “Yep!” (In response to "Do you want to watch an episode [of HIMYM]?" unless it's last night when I was crabby from things like working on the calendar for so long & getting nowhere when I said "Whatever."So, what 3 things do you find yourself doing every single day, and if you didn’t get to do, you probably wouldn’t be in the best mood?
1. Reading
2. Keeping in touch with someone, even if it's just through something like twitter.
3. Reading a bookYou’re driving down the road, and suddenly you’re hit with this sense of road rage. What 3 factors probably contributed to it?
1. Tailgaiting me
2. Not using a blinker
3. Someone driving way too much over the speed limitSomebody stole your purse/wallet…in order to get it back, you have to name 5 things you know are inside to claim it. So, what’s in there?
1. My wallet with ID, etc
2. hair clips
3. chapstick
4. hmm...I just switched purses so you'd think I'd know this...currently, a list of Carnegie libraries from when I went to the postcard show this weekend
5. Also currently, 10 red raffle ticketsYou are at a job fair. Which 3 booths would you be interested in?
1. Librarian
2. Publisher/editor/person who works for a magazine selecting & reviewing books preferably children's, middle-reader, & YA (what? too specific?)
3. TV show & movie music soundtrack selector & editor (there's a booth for that, right?)
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
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What have I been doing lately?
Besides not blogging, of course.
-- working on the 2010 CLIP calendar
-- applying to jobs
-- having job interviews
-- doing my homework after one interview
-- blogging here
-- cross-stitching
-- watching HIMYM, Lost, Gossip Girl, Heroes, The Office, 30 Rock, Parks & Recreation, etc
-- working on Recognize Promise
-- oh and reading: in the last week I've finished 12 books (1273 pages, not including the ones that were picture books)
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- Name: Jill
- Birthday: 5/1/1985
- Gender: Female
- Member Since: 1/21/2004
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