Laurabelle’s Blog

Last night I dreamed of beautiful young women thigh-deep in a pool of water, dancing, singing, and playing in glorious and joyful defiance of a regime that forces them to hide their bodies, their faces, and their souls.

Last Friday, my digital reference class met upstairs in the computer classroom for synchronous (chat) reference practice. I'd done asynchronous (email) reference previously but was unprepared for chat reference, other than what Lydia (the instructor) had said about it in class. This was to be our practice session. Half of us were librarians and the [...]

This is going to be a slightly brief, sum-up entry, because I haven't got too much time today. I would have written earlier this week, but I didn't have time then either. I was too busy with school and work and keeping Jeff sane to write anything at all this week, although I was tempted [...]

Instead of taking the summer off, I'm taking classes, both to keep myself occupied and to get a core class out of the way. My schedule is the same as I said a month ago except that I'm not taking section B of 529 (the one about e-government). I decided that would be too much [...]

I almost certainly wouldn't have seen this movie if it hadn't been free. Nevertheless, I found it truly excellent. It's not by any means an all-time great, but it's hilarious, especially in the way it plays with stereotypes. The main characters are Steven and Danny, a gay couple in Manhattan who have told their parents that [...]

Sorry I haven't blogged for almost two weeks. I was in New Mexico, then Texas, and had no time to blog. Besides that, I didn't really feel that there was much to blog about. I suppose I could have written a little as things happened, because things did happen, but it all makes more sense [...]

Thanks to Rob's Amazing Poem Generator, niceperson.org as a poem: Blog Blog and Mirrors as many of clues, all right but psychologically and only because I have for eleven years except where this weekend. was capped this fulfilled it that normal which was just met. I started rereading it, was Harry Potter. if only person in good route to people I wanted to this evil but [...]

This weekend was the Barony of Madrone's annual Lionheart's Tourney, where this year's champions (heavy, rapier, and archery) were chosen and much fun was had. I went, not only because other Bunnies were going but because Dieter is stepping up as Baronial Herald, which meant that he was also stepping down as Seneschal of St. [...]

I don't get why (seemingly) everyone loves Harry Potter. A couple of years ago I read my mother's copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I didn't enjoy it, for many reasons. One of the biggest was the abuse Harry's family inflict on him. Child abuse is not funny, even in a cartoon, and it's [...]

When it became known to me that Jeff had never read The Princess Bride, I found him a used copy of it, which then lay around on a pile since Jeff is still busy reading the other books I've shoved at him (a Lovecraft collection and Smoke and Mirrors) as well as at least one [...]