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Grades

July 25, 2007 at 8:26 pm · Filed under Life ·Tagged , , ,

Got the final grades today!

Yes, this semester I had poorer grades then previous ones, but two B’s out of 16 A’s isn’t horrible (I’m not quite sure if it’s 16, but the rest were all A’s so bite me)

Collection Development – 94 – A (YAY!)

Adult Services – 82 or 86 – B (Yay! Grade could have been higher if I had posted more but it was a short semester – I really enjoyed that class for sure.)

Info Sources for the humanities – 88 – B (Yay! I don’t know how I managed that grade…I HATED that class, mostly b/c I was rewriting the text book for the teacher and I don’t get the royalities….seriously)

So all in all I’m a pretty awesome student at this library thing 😛 When I know my official GPA I’ll post it, but lets just say it’s awesome.

Life is good – Just trying to find a job, hope I hear something by the end of this week…

Work is okay….I’m ready to start telling one coworker just how it is.  She’s crossing too many lines and my boss isn’t doing anything about it.  Besides she told me to say things to her, so I will – I just won’t be as nice any longer – I have to be direct.  I think that’s the hardest thing to do, I can drop hints till I’m blue in the face but she doesn’t get it, so I’m just going to have to say things directly and forcefully, b/c it’s become hazardous for her to be in the room.  No good.

I think I’m sick or something, I’m all head congestion-ee, and stuffed nose.  No good – but no cough, I need to go get more cold and sinus drugs b/c we’re out.

That’s about it – I have to take pictures of the house for tara, and I guess anyone else, but I need to clean first, and I won’t lie, I’m enjoying this freedom thing 😛 Like Crochetting, Playing Wii (I’m thiiiiissss close to beating Super Paper Mario! Joy!) Even Cleaning!

Alright, going to perform a nose-appendectomy.

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Peaceful Ahhhhhhhh

July 24, 2007 at 8:26 am · Filed under Books, Harry Potter, Life ·Tagged , , , , , , , ,

Breathe in….Breath out….Peace overflows you…

Yep that’s how I feel right now, I just finished my last class assignment for my summer classes, which means I’m finished with Grad School! I’m excited but also nervous to see how I did in the classes…so I’m holding my breathe until July 25th, when the grades have to be in.

Until then I’ll have my Harry Potter 🙂 Which I’m going to go get in about 1 hour 😀 I’ve never done the midnight release thing so it should be interesting.

UPDATE: I have my book and read it in 11 hours and 45 mins….One child from my school guessed that I could read it in 12 hours….so he gets a candy bar.  The midnight release was fun but I really dislike people who talk…err should i say Broadcast, the spoilers to people who have no choice but to listen.  It’s rude and inconsiderat and those people should be shot at with paintball guns.

But back to this whole school thing, or rather the lack thereof…

I have mixed emotions about it all. I’m very happy and exuberant that I’m finally finished, but I feel a little lonely, b/c I know I’ll have to take control of my free time. It’s not even that I’ll have to get a “real job” and “work” – that doesn’t bother me b/c I’ve done it the entire time I have been in school, undergrad and graduate. Yeah sometimes I took a few weeks off to get stuff done, but more or less I’ve worked my butt off to get thru school in 2.5 years (when it normally takes 2 years). So you could say that I’m proud of myself….b/c I deserve to be.

The other thing that worries me not being able to relax, always thinking something is due, or that I should be doing something else besides “having fun.” It will definitely be a transition. I’m still considering selling Creative Memories stuff, but not until I’ve gotten a “real” job and know what my hours are like, and after I’ve had some time to re-arrange the house some. Probably not until after Labor day, at the very least.

And now I’m trying to find a job…it’s kinda exciting being able to say, “Yes I’m a LIBRARIAN” and not have to sell myself “Yes, I am a MLIS student but I’m determined to work in libraries…” while it’s worked for me in the past, it’s not always fun and games. I have applied for one position and I’m actually excited about it – so I really hope I get an interview. Otherwise I’m still looking.

So there is this looooonnngggggg list of things “To-Do AFTER school is over…forever…” – allow me to expand:

  • Post-it note: When I have a life – Google Criss Angel (from Tara)
  • Call Rival about our seal a meal (on refrig)
  • Spend time with Matthew
  • Change my bills to different times of the month
  • Redo the guest room (move desk in, reorganize craft stuff, etc…)
  • Do some crochet projects
  • Do some scrapbooking (esp on my mom’s! Yikes!)
  • Throw away all the school stuff I don’t need
  • Reorganize my filing cabinents
  • Read the mound of books that I want to read
  • Reformat my computer
  • Play Wii..specifically Super Paper Mario
  • Have a few parties
  • See my friends
  • Go on a vacation
  • Sleep in

And I think that’s all…I definitely have many things I want to do, but we’ll see if it happens.  Okay time to shower and get ready to face the day.

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Harry Potter and School

July 5, 2007 at 10:46 pm · Filed under Harry Potter, Life ·Tagged , , , , , , ,

Sooo I thought that I would write a blog about the new Harry Potter book coming out on July 21st. I do have mine on pre-order, so no worries my pretties. But I thought that I would write about what I thought was going to happen but as I thought about it I realized that I hate trying to predict what may happen…I don’t even want to think about whether or nor Harry, Ron, or Hermoine die….I don’t want to think that could happen, even if it does – I won’t be the one jinxing it. Sooo I really don’t know what is going to happen, other then Harry kicking Lord Voldemort’s butt. That’s about it. I can’t wait for it to come out – depending on what time I finish my class stuff I’ll get my book either July 20th at Midnight or the following Saturday…but I have to brave the crowds to do it :-/ We shall see.

My parents have been up here for the past few days. They bought us a sweet grill as a house warming gift and then helped us put in a patio outside! It’s sweet! And my mom planted flowers for me..so hopefully something will grow :-< I have to say that my house is looking pretty awesome. Oh and my mom has been cleaning my kitchen 🙂 that makes me very happy. And they REALLY like our house and that makes me feel really good. I kinda wish that they lived closer to us 😦 I know my mom wants to but my dad can’t do it. Maybe in the future.

Oh and I have like 15 days until I’m done with school for GOOD! But I have a few things to get done….they are:

  • Treasure Hunt Questions – 7/15
  • Info Sources Paper – 7/16
  • Discussion Board Questions (Lead Discussion) 7/15
  • Disc. Board activity (Info Sources) – currently till the end
  • Disc Board questions for Coll Dev. – 7/10 & 7/20
  • Coll Dev Final Paper – 7/20
  • Adult Services Disc. Board Participation (3 x’s each week!!!)
  • Adult Services Final Paper: Due Tuesday of Week 10 (7/16).

Sooo that’s about it – once I get this stuff done I’m done forever!!! Woooohoooo but I need to crack down and get my butt in gear. Seriously sooo much to do! These huge projects (one in each class) are going to take a lot of energy.

Oh and I applied for a job today – so I’m hoping next week I’ll be hearing something! Keep you’re fingers crossed!

Alright sooo that’s it for a few days – TTYL!

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I passed!!!

July 3, 2007 at 8:58 am · Filed under Life ·Tagged , , , ,

I passed, I passed, I passed, I passed!!!!!!!!

What you may be wondering??

THE COMPS!! Yippppeeeeee! This means, if I finish my classes out (in, oh…17 days ) and I get good grades then I will be GRADUATING!!! Yay! in August!!  Oh my goodness I’m soo excited!

With that being said – Plan for a graduation party/ birthday party the weekend of Labor Day, with the following day planned for going to the WEBN fireworks (which are AMAZING for those of you who don’t know…)  People can stay with us….so plan to be here, then 🙂

WAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Oh and to find out if I passed, I caved and called the school to find out, because I still don’t have my letter 😦 but it was confirmed twice so i know I PASSED! 🙂

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Books?

June 27, 2007 at 11:37 pm · Filed under Books, Life ·Tagged , , , , , ,

Okay so here is my LT with all the books I collected at ALA2007 Conference. I have 3/6 others that I could not add because they are just a few chapters from each book (2 books in 1) but I do have them. Titles are: “Dancing with Werewolves” by Carole Nelson Douglas; “Chasing Silver” by Jamie Craig (both in one book); “The Secret History of Moscow” by Ekaterina Sedia; “The Spider’s Bride” by Debbie Gallagher (both in one book); and lastly, “Blood Magic” by Matthew Cook; and “Amberlight” by Sylvia Kelso (both in one book). If anyone is interested in those let me know.

Here is the list of books I’m willing to part ways with or loan. Also check out this list of signed books that I have from the conference. There were also a few other books that I either 1) gave away or 2) have been snaked by Matthew to the depths of his lair….I mean computer room. So once those are up there, you’ll be able to see them.

I do plan to type up a journal about my trip to ALA but give me a bit and I’ll get it. I need to get my resume together and send it off tomorrow and then work on homework so that I can graduate soon. Soon….very soon….I’ll be able to update regularly.

Oh and I asked MySpace for help with the transferring of my blogs from their to here….we’ll see if it happens, but I’m not going to hold my breathe.

Alright, gotta go to sleep, my eyelids keep falling. Night all! Let me know if anyone wants some books!
Peace, Anna

Oh and I’ll elaborate on this later – but go read “The Time Travelers Wife” by Audrey N. an EXCELLENT book and I loved listening to it on the trip to and fro DC. Go…get it NOW!

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Comps?

June 19, 2007 at 10:50 am · Filed under Life ·Tagged , , , , , , ,

Current mood: happy
Category: Life

Sooooo I’ve been MIA for a few days now – let me catch ya all up on this (well not Tara, she was going thru it with me!)

Last tuesday I received the questions for my comps – For those of you don’t know Comps are the equivalent of a Thesis or Dissertations (sort of). The school selects 3 questions, sends them to you, and you have 5 days (I had 6 b/c of fathers day) to write an 8-10 page paper on one of the questions. These are no simple questions, one must research, analyze, synthesize, and write this paper in 5 (or 6) days – no easy feet mind you!

Tuesday
Soo got the questions, decided to do question 1. Placed holds on book thru the library of Cinci.

Wednesday
Started researching the different areas of the question online – printed about 100 pages of information.

Thursday
Picked up books, Wrote about a page of my paper

Friday
Wrote more of the paper (probably 4 more pages)
Went to Amanda’s Dress Rehearsal – and Dinner – Yummy. Almost died leaving the church (stupid lady pulled out right in front of us…we had to stop completely, with only a foot or two to spare…scary shit.
Came home and packed up for saturday – printed off my paper and I had 6 pages done.

Saturday
Had matthew drop me off at the hair place – got my hair done, dropped off at the hotel, put on make-up, got on dress (barely ), took pictures at Cox (cool place!) Went to the church. Got Amanda married (fyi the church had NO AC and it was like 95 that day….) The wedding was beautiful – I’ll upload pictures when I can. I’m sooo happy for those two – they really deserve each other. Yay! Went to the rehearsal and had to wait for the stupid boys to get their butts there….had food, had booze, and had fun. Can’t ask for much else. Work done on my comps paper? Zero.

Sunday
Rick came by at 8, was suppose to elave at 10 but didn’t leave till 11 – which was fine by me. It was great to see him. He’s a great person and I hope he moves up here closer to us soon! Got started on the paper around 1:30ish? and powered through it till 6:30 when I declared it done. Proof-read it, sent it to Sami and D (who are AWESOME PPL BTW! Gonna have to do something nice for them after schools over). Sami sent me back paper – I revised. in between waiting for D and sami’s email I made curtains for Jon’s new Apt. Got D’s email late and started doing revisions again. Finished the revisions around 1 am, went to bed.

Monday
Around 10:30 am I got up and re-read my paper, fixed different things and then submitted my paper at 11:00ish. Took a shower (the first in like 5 days – I know gross, right??) Got dressed and went up to Dayton to see Emmie and Kari and go shopping. On the way up there my car started shaking…badly. At the Dayton mall exit I hear a loud POP and repeated thumps. I see my tire is flying around on the rear drivers side. I maintain control of the car and pull onto the side of the highway. Frak – I blew a tire. let me also tell you, you all are very lucky i’m alive. My car model is notorious for flipping, this simple imbalance made b/c the tire blew should have been enough to flip me. Miracle of Miracles (and the fact that this isn’t the FIRST blown tire I’ve had) helped save my life.
So I called matthew and he insisted on coming up and helping me change my tire – what a good man. I started the process of finding the parts to lower the spare and did that. Matthew got there and we took the tire off and put on the spare. I’ll put a picture of the blown tire online here in a bit. Then I took the car to store, got a new tire and shopped. When I went to pick up the car, that is when I realized my ID was missing….Double Frak! I head to Emmies house and we go to the stores. On my way there I am about to call Amanda and ask her if she has my ID when Matthew calls. Yep He had my ID – he took it out for the wedding (what a good guy) but boy did I feel like I was losing it b/c I could not for the life of me remember taking it out. lol. With that out of the way, the day was much better.
I came home, watched a movie, and then proceeded to finish the curtains for jon. Made muffins and then went to sleep.

Sooooo after all that, I’m alright, alive and well. Now I’m just waiting for the results of my paper. If I recieve a phone call, I failed and have to retake them. If I don’t recieve a phone call, I’ll receive a letter in the mail (at my parents house) and that means I’ve passed. Here’s hoping for the snail mail. If anyone lives in tampa please do not call me from an 813 number that I don’t have…I really don’t want to have a panic attack – k?

Alright that’s about it – Now I have to get ready for ALA – I leave on Thursday! Joy!

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Must….blog….

June 4, 2007 at 4:36 pm · Filed under Life ·Tagged , , , , , , ,

Current mood: stressed
Category: unmotivated LifeOkay I gotta blog – I know I said I wouldn’t return until July 20th but I’m just sooooo overwhelmed with everything I need to just spew for a bit and then i’ll be feeling a whole lot better.

So lets see – This past weekend we had Amanda’s Bacheloretter party! It was a good time, though a small group, but fun none-the-less. Cyndi gave us excellent massages! Then we played some games, and finally we had a pure romance party. It was a good time! Oh and we played some Wii 😀

I also found a Bassett Dresser for $30 at a yard sale this weekend! Score!!

Matthew and I saw Knocked Up last night too and it was GREAT! I really enjoyed it! Plus I had heard an interview with the director and Seth ____ on NPR right before hand and it just made me appreciate the movie even more. Really really really excellent – go see it!

Right now I’m trying to survive school. I have a paper due tomorrow that I’m working on (), a posting due tomorrow for the same class (), An assignment due the 10th but technically due the 7th (), Comps next week (), all along with Amanda’s wedding the 16th, Rick visiting the 17th, our one year anniversary this Saturday, and trying to get ready for ALA the 22nd. ugh ugh ugh! I’m definitely getting stressed – plus my computer has been having some serious fits of retalliation – I know I need to reformat it but I just don’t have the time to back up all the information. And folks, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Seriously – right now I just want to sleep…I have tears in my eyes from how much i want to sleep. Not cool, not cool at all 😦

But at least it’s raining some here!

Oh and you all have any ideas for what to do on the one year anniversary please let me know! I just don’t have a clue! Send any suggestions my way please!!

Thanks – much love – keep me in your thoughts and prayers please!

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By Alison Bechdel
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No, I’m not dead….

May 25, 2007 at 8:25 pm · Filed under Life ·Tagged , , , , ,

Current mood: sleepy
Category: Life

Just an update, No I’m not dead, Yes I’m damn near trying to kill myself and yes I am a little crazy.

Really, it’s all just school and work.

School takes up 85% of my time, SERIOUSLY.

Work 10%

Sleep/Matthew/Other 5%

So This is my way of apologizing in advance for the next 9 weeks of no Banannas.  I think you’ll survive with out me.  Thank God I don’t have any shows to watch right now…I’d really be up shits creek without a paddle!

Okay time to go read homework.
Peace, Anna

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The Night Journal
By Elizabeth Crook
Release date: 12:00 AM

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Red Wings and Green Grass

May 10, 2007 at 8:34 am · Filed under Life ·Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

Current mood: happy
Category: Life

Soooooooo
1) WE WENT TO DETROIT AND WATCHED THE REDWINGS ROCK THE JOE!!!  Yep, definitely an awesome awesome awesome time!  The whole place was rocking and the crowd was amazing!  It was nice for once not to be the minority of cheer-ers.  I got the sweet Wing-Nut hat you see me wearing.  And an awesome Draper #33 Jersey!  I wanted a Hasek jersey but they were all out 😦 but I like Draper just as much so it’s allll good.  Plus I got a book called “The ABC’s of Red Wings Hockey” that Matthew and I will read to our kids every night, even if they don’t want too!  lol.  Maybe Matthew and I will go to another game….soon 🙂

Green Grass?? Yes! We finally have grass!!!  Although if we don’t water it, it turns brown 😦  They installed the sod two days ago and since then, we’ve been sucking all the water from the ohio river and putting it on our lawn.  We now own 5 sprinklers and hoses….yeah it’s NUTS.  So if you need a sprinkler or hose in the near future, don’t buy new ones, buy one of my old ones!  PLEASE!!!
Speaking of which, I should probably go and switch the water…

Lets see…what else….oh yeah, there is work and school.

Work – Good, I like it – ppl are pretty nice and I enjoy working with the kids.  I actually enjoy getting up real early and working for a few hours and then going back later in the day.  It’s pretty nice.

School – Well two points.  I got my grades from last semester: A, A, A-!  YIPPPEEEEEE.  The A- was in Res. Meth. which I was sure I’d bomb.  So my Cumu. GPA is 3.91!  I’ve never had high grades like that!  But i’m kinda ticked b/c I didn’t get into NHS…and thought it was automatically done!  Grrr…But I think this means I can graduate Magna Cum Laude.  Or Maybe just Cum Laude….I dunno….doesn’t matter too much b/c 1) I won’t be walking at graduation and 2) I still have 11 weeks of school left, and we haven’t even started yet!!! My teachers are going to kill me….

Which is the last topic – school, this semester.  EVERY FREAKING TEACHER has said in an email to us lovely students: “This semester will require a lot of work and focus – YOU HAVE TO STAY ON TASK and do all your homework on time.  Don’t get behind!” HOWEVER, I already feel behind, and the semester hasn’t even started!!!  Not FAIR.  I think that’s cheating professor so-and-so!  OH well….I guess I should go kill another tree so that I’m not locked out of the classroom tomorrow. (print off so many papers you would think I was a share-holder).

Okay – that’s all – all-in-all, pretty darn stinking happy.

Oh and yesterday was our 11 month anniversary 😀 30 days till 1 year!!

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well maybe I’m not quite done yet…

April 24, 2007 at 10:24 am · Filed under Life ·Tagged , , ,

Current mood: awake
Category: Life

So I just got online to make sure I’m done with school, and I’m not fully done – I’ve done all the homework assignments but my one teacher is making us do work this week….aka exam week. Crazy lady. Oh well 100 word posting won’t kill me.

I do have a funny story though

So I came home yesterday after running errands and all that, I came home and had this bug to clean the bed room

I mean CLEAN

And anyone that knows me, knows that I don’t have these feelings often, so when they happen, I seize them!

And boy did I ever – I completely cleaned the room, even VACUUMED! with the real vac and not the roomba! I even rearranged the room a little! I took off the sheets and even rotated the bed. I was washing EVERYTHING.

sooo I’m washing everythign – I wash the load with our good sheets in them, then go to dry them. For those of you who don’t know, our dryer is HORRIBLE! It sounds like someone is skinning a cat! Or beating a puppy up. It’s awful!! It’s one of the reasons I hate to do laundry. – So I put the stuff in the dryer and turn it on and run away. I turn it on for 80 mins. About 40 mins in I put on another load of wash, with our other good sheets for our bed. As soon as matthew walks in, the dryer stops. So we decide to go eat dinner and as we go to leave I try to switch the laundry. I open up the dryer and feel it to see if it’s dry….and it’s SOAKING WET! I’m like, WTF! so I put it on for another 80 and we go to eat food. Well on our way there we’re talking about the dryer and we talk about how the room wasn’t even warm like it usually is. Hmmm we began to wonder if our dryer really bit the dust. We certainly were hoping not but at the same time, a little bit of us was….

We get home, and lo-and-behold, the dryer is dead. Clothes are still wet. This is not a good sign. So we debate where to go – Sears (a town away), or Home depot (down the road and we had a 10% coupon for there). We decide to go to homedepot. And we bought a new washer and dryer!!! I’m sooo excited! Cept we can’t get it till thursday, so we have two loads of wash that’s wet.
here’s the washer: Washer
and here’s the dryer: Dryer
Yipppppeeeeeee I can wash like a crazy lady! and they are super energy effecient and that’s exactly what we wanted! Plus we can do huge loads!

So in other news, I start my new job today, in less then an hour. I’m getting ready for it now, but I’ll just be watching kids so it’s all good. I’m excited to get my pass to the YMCA 🙂

OH and I’m going to get super organized for Comps in these next two weeks. Every paper/article I have ever printed off will be put in a binder, organized and reread so that when Comps come along I’ll be ready!

Okay that’s about it – just had to tell ya all how I broke our dryer 😦 Matthew thinks I did it on purpose.

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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
By Philip Zimbardo
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