No Mountain Day for me!

Tue, 30 Sep 2003

This morning my first thought was I miss Mount Holyoke. And whaddayaknow, today is Mountain Day. Somehow, subconsciously, I knew. Man, I want soooo badly to go to Reunion next May. I want to see Rachel and Maggie and everyone else. Oh, why can't I both stay and leave?!

Gotta watch them onions

Sat, 27 Sep 2003

Vicious little devils, those onions. Bite you as soon as look at you. Why, just today one of them got me good. I was just checking it out before laying it on the cutting board, running my hand over it to make sure it was whole and healthy, and it sank its teeth into my [...]

Poorly Jeff

Wed, 24 Sep 2003

Jeff's sick. This is bad, because he's miserable and ornery, but it's also kind of cool because I get an excuse to pamper him, and he doesn't get to argue. Well, I guess he can argue, but he's not trying very hard. Monday he had a sore throat, so I made chicken noodle soup. (Real chicken [...]

Update

Mon, 22 Sep 2003

Sorry, I haven't been writing at all regularly this summer. This is a general update on various subjects.

Customer service

Fri, 12 Sep 2003

Lately I've been thinking a lot about customer service, particularly in relation to my own job and the ways in which I deal with those whom I serve, both patrons and library staff. Librarians have a love-hate relationship with the term customer service, stemming from librarians' concept of their purpose and role in information service [...]

Will bumber for shoot

Wed, 3 Sep 2003

Last weekend Jeff was talking about going to Bumbershoot to hang out with a few friends, and he mentioned that R.E.M. was going to be there and that I was welcome to come along. I'm an R.E.M. fan (like who isn't?), and of course $20 (the cost of admission to Bumbershoot, after which all shows [...]