Laurabelle's Blog

According to Kathy, today is the one-year anniversary of KCLS hiring me. This is in spite of the fact that I didn't find out that they had offered me the job until a week later. Some dates:

Here's a joke for ya. What's the difference between Baptists and Methodists? Methodists greet each other in the liquor store. Neither Baptists nor Methodists are supposed to drink alcohol, you see, but the joke is that Methodists at least aren't hypocrites.

A few days ago I finished Robin McKinley's latest novel, Sunshine, which had been languishing on my shelf since December. It's a vampire novel, but it's strange in a very McKinley way (unlike Pete Hautman's Sweetblood, which is strange in an entirely different way). I wouldn't have expected McKinley to write a vampire novel, but [...]

Well, I had my interview today, and it was surprisingly painless. It was longer than any interview I've ever had before, but it felt very fast, and I think I answered the questions well. Now I've just got to wait until they get back to me. In case you're wondering, yes, I was nervous. My [...]

I am now beginning my very last quarter of grad school, and I'm just taking two classes. One is on Library Automation Systems and is taught by one of the tech people from the Law Library. The class seems cool, and it is after all my current chosen career path. I am finding myself in [...]

I just finished reading a retelling of Bluebeard called Fitcher's Brides (from a version of the tale called Fitcher's Bird). I bought the book because I'm a sucker for fairy tales, and because I loved another of Gregory Frost's stories, The Root of the Matter, a retelling of Rapunzel. That story contains what has become [...]