Laurabelle’s Blog

Well, I didn't get the SPL job. I sent HR an email on Tuesday saying Hey I'm still interested, where are you in the process? and didn't hear anything until this morning when I picked up a message on my voice mail at work. I was kind of surprised since I gave them my cell [...]

You gotta wonder sometimes about the people who write viruses. I love the fact that none of my email addresses have my first name as the username, so that I get called Lbmelton or, more often, Guestbook (which is the username I use for signing guestbooks on other people's websites and thus the username that [...]

Looks like there's a states-and-countries-visited meme going around. The create-your-own maps at World66.com are pretty cool, so I'm playing along this time.

An unexpected link between a blog and a library: Sophomore Steve Stanzak, 20, said he began spending six hours a night in the sub-basement of Bobst Library at the beginning of the academic year after he was unable to pay a $1,000 housing deposit. He slept on library chairs and carried vital belongings -- a laptop [...]

Last Thursday was the one-year anniversary of my first day of work at KCLS. I don't want to bore anyone with tales of Oh, when I were a wee intern, but I think it's really remarkable to look back on the blog entry about my first day of work and to realize how much I've [...]

Today Jeff and I invited my friend Alita to dinner. We had meant to get together over break, about a month ago, but it didn’t work out until now. The evening was all the more lovely for waiting.

For my last birthday, Ralph and Lori gave me Booklust, Nancy Pearl's bookful of booklists. In the first lines section I found a mention of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle, whose first line is I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. I had Amazon send Maggie a copy for Christmas, because it seemed [...]

I'm graduating! Laura Melton: Your portfolio has been approved by your advisor and by the second reader and is a pass, no revisions required. Congratulations! Seriously, I expected to have to make some sort of revision, so I'm quite pleasantly surprised and relieved.

Today is a lovely warm, sunny day, so I pulled up the blinds and opened the window. Horace has been on the windowseat for several minutes, and just now a sleek orange tabby jumped on the bench outside. He and Horace meowed at each other amicably for a little before I got up to take [...]

On Monday morning I was industrious. I washed dishes, emptied the drying rack and the dishwasher, ironed and put away laundry, put out the garbage, and performed several other tasks that I can't remember any more, all before about 10:00. While I was ironing (with which I never used to bother since all my [...]