Re-Runs

Its getting to be that time of year when TV shows are going into re-runs. It bummed me out last week and now this week when I sat down for a favorite show (Grey's Anatomy, The Office or Gilmore Girls) to find out it was a repeat. My life has been pretty up in the air, with most of my friends leaving Madison and me looking for a job, that I come to rely on my TV shows to entertain me and allow me to forget about my stress and worries.

Other Thoughts:

*Hiking at a WI state park is so peaceful and tranquil. It has become a favorite pastime of mine.
*Does a bat have rabies if it is flying around in spastic circles in broad daylight"
*Random country roads are fun to drive down, even if I don't know where they go.
*Wine tastes really good on a cold chilly October night.
*Daylight savings time is a wonderful thing. I never know if it is starting or ending, but falling back and gaining an extra hour of sleep makes me oh so happy.

King (Queen) of the Mountain

Do cows play king of the mountain? On my way home from Prairie du Chien, I saw a cow standing on top of a mound of dirt lording over all the other cows. Either that or it climbed on top and thought, oh crap now how do I get down?

Blah

I am having one of those days. It is cold and dreary outside, which makes it so much easier to feel kind of blah. After 5 days of not sleeping well, I finally was able to catch up on my sleep and slept for about 12 hours last night. I can't believe I turned into one of those old people that fall asleep while watching a TV show that was on from 8 - 9. (Yes. I fell asleep watching Lost. I am ashamed and I should be ridiculed!)

Another reason I am feeling kind of blah is that the job thing is getting kind of discouraging. It is easier to be upbeat about it when there are lots of job opportunities, which is unlike now. And I would think that having a wide area to look for a job (Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Seattle and Denver) would be so much easier. WOW am I wrong. All I want is a job that is challenging, I get to work with nice people, I can learn a lot and I get paid enough that I can get a cup of Starbucks Coffee a week and not feel guilty. Is that too much to ask for?

A final p.s. Gripe~~~ Why can't librarians call themselves one thing. It would make it so much easier to search for jobs if I could type in librarian and have all the positions turn up verses things like information specialist/researcher (which is a librarian) not turn up!

Insomnia

Insomnia (and I am not talking about the movie) sucks. I am too exhausted to read, yet cannot seem to fall asleep. Instead I have been searching for jobs and watching Harry Potter movies 2,3 and 4. One of these days I will go off on the movies and how they do not do the books justice, however the movies are a quick fix as opposed to reading the 600 plus page books. So what could help me fall asleep? I could try counting sheep, but my brain really doesn't want to work. How can I be this tired, but not able to sleep?

Ironic

A few month ago I was having a discussion on what is considered ironic. That whole Alanis Morissette song is so not full of irony. Those are all unhappy coincidences that totally suck. Perhaps bad Karma? Whatever. So, for the life of me, I couldn't think of any good examples. However, I found the ironies of all ironies while visiting SLIS this past Saturday while bumming around with a friend. Apparently, the guide to graduate life (the official graduate school guide) has a picture of a former SLIS student who DROPPED OUT in his 2nd to LAST SEMESTER!!! Yep, the face of graduate school is a library school drop out!

Quotable

some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. delicious ambiguity ...


~~gilda radner

Good Morning Moonshine. Earth Says Hello!!!

Love that quote.

Rejected

Today was warm and sunny out. It did not seem like a WI fall day. It felt like I should have been in Florida or some other southern state.



Puzzles. I haven't done a puzzle since middleschool and even then I could never finish them. Now, I am in the mood to do puzzles. Is it the bordum of not having anything to do? Or is it that my brain doesn't need to think anymore now that school is over with? I think my brain is used to shutting down May-August, but it needs some intellegent stimulis the rest of the year. So yeah, I started doing puzzles.