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More Podcasts

(I did a first pass last week; here are the rest more)

1. Wine & Crime
2. The Generation Why
3. True Crime Campfire
4. Graveyard Tales
5. Crime Junkie
6. Ridiculous History
7. True Crime Campfire
8. The Shallow End
9. The Deck
10. Small Town Dicks
11. DNA: ID
12. Miss Information
13. Lore

That's still not all! There are several that have either put themselves on or I've put THEM on extended hiatus: The Dollop, LeVar Burton Reads, The Daily Zeitgest, Inner Cosmos, Murderland Chicago, Real Crime Profile, Disturbing Interests ...  There's also a small contingent of "Hmm, this sounds interesting but who has time?"

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Favorite podcasts

1. My Favorite Murder
2. And That's Why We Drink
3. The Box of Oddities
4. The Prosecutors
5. Anatomy of Murder
6. Stuff They Don't Want You to Know
7. Buried Bones
8. Go Fact Yourself!
   
9. No Such Things as a Fish
10. Astonishing Legends
11. Sinisterhood
12. Red Handed
13. True North True Crime

This about half of my current list of subscriptions. Maybe I'll just keep listing these next week. 😀

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My 'Next' 13 Books, According to GoodReads

1. Wrecked (IQ, #3), by Joe Ide
2. God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible, by Candida Moss
3. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, by Deepa Anappara
4. All Rivers Run to the Sea, by Elie Wiesel
5. Looking for History on Highway 14, by John E. Miller
6. Open and Shut (Andy Carpenter, #1), by David Rosenfelt
7. The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians, by N.T. Wright
8. The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau, by Timothy W. Ryback
9. The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis
10. Evil: A Primer: A History of a Bad Idea from Beelzebub to Bin Laden, by William Hart
11. Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir (edited by Duane Swierczynski)
12. The Polysyllabic Spree, by Nick Hornby
13. القرآن الكريم (the Qur'an)

The key for colors: 

• Black font means it'll probably get bumped down so I don't drown in Sad or Heavy. Keep in mind I have approximately 430 titles on my next/TBR lists, and those titles do not include the piles of books in the house that I need to slot in
• Tan font means those will probably make the cut on the Actual IRL Next List
• Green font is the Maybe, We'll See pair. I've been moving the Qur'an down the list for literally years. Maybe I'll just buckle down and do it this spring/summer 

I just finished a (very good) book about early Christianity so I need a break from that for awhile. I'm sure there will be a Michael Connelly that finds its way into the mix--I've been plowing through his backlist for eons, reading them in order with lots of breaks because they are often really dire; the most recently finished one came out in 2011.

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Things on the Staycation To-Do List
I called Sparky in full-panic, bring-the-tears mode this morning. His very sensible advice: make a list of EVERYTHING that needs doing (my reply, "but that's going to be a Very Long List" and he said to do it anyway. He's a smart kid.) Once I pulled myself together and he knew I wasn't going to jump off a roof (mostly just kidding--seems painful), we hung up and I got started. The list is one full side of lined notebook paper. I fully expect it to grow* before it shrinks measurably. Some of the things that I bet aren't on most people's late winter list are below.

1. Make appointment with attorney to meet with Sparky and me about my will and PoA stuff.
2. Fix banister Beast broke when he fell in September.
3. Cancel SiriusXM.
4. Call and order CPAP supplies for myself.
5. Figure out how to submit paperwork to County electronically (find said pwk, too).
6. Fix light switch in laundry room (there's a short whenever I turn it on).
7. Empty Beast's closet in our bedroom and organize All The Stuff.
8. Fix mailbox.
9. Shred Beast's credit cards.
10. Re-do cell phone plan (remove Beast's bro, decide about keeping Beast's number, get Sparky a new functional iPhone--I hate iPhones, btw--and get the account information updated).
11. Get rid of extra car in garage that hasn't been driven since before I did this meme the last time.  smh
12. Call social work person at Beast's facility with questions about Medicaid form.
13. FIND BEAST'S BLOODY WEDDING RING AND CROSS/CHAIN! (I had them at the hospital in September--haven't seen them since and have searched high and low around the house since)

* In fact, while I was typing this up, I filled up the top page and moved on to Page 2. Thirty-one total items. Some of them are 10-minute easy-peasy things. Some of them are potentially weeks-long projects. It feels like there are more of the latter than the former.

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Things Starting with L
(continuing a series started in 2010 with A)

1. Lagging. I constantly feel tired. I'm lagging all over the place, both in the sense of being behind and in the sense of being slow.
2. Leftovers. I just threw away half a casserole from 10 days ago. I'm so irritated that despite both of us being around, neither of us finished it. Plus, it left a trail of icky smell in the house when I carried it outside. Yuck.
3. Loose ends. I'm not sure what I ought to be doing instead of this, but I know that it involves cleaning. Floors, kitchen, cobwebs in corners, something....
4. Land. This time of year, this part of the world is beautiful. The fields are mostly harvested now, the trees are approaching the full color spectrum, and the weather.
5. Light. On the other hand, I'm not loving the increasingly short days. It's just getting darker and darker....sigh. I'm not ready for winter, this year.
6. "Lovely." The British version of "That's nice." I still am catching myself saying that when people tell me something that I'm not really interested in knowing.
7. Legal issues. Continued worrying, on Beast's part mostly, about why our state followed through on something from another state that is in the process of being thrown out of court in the original venue.
8. Library. Well really, I pretty much have to mention this. Perhaps now is a good time to confess that I seem to have misplaced the latest Harry Potter book somewhere just as I got to the last 50 pages. I'm sure(is) that it is somewhere in the house, though that's not narrowing it down much.
9. Love . Another one that has to be on the list. I feel so fortunate to have the people around me that I do. They didn't "just happen" to be there, and I'm unwilling to take credit for thinking ahead to create such an awesome support system. Also, I really really love Sparky. He's such a great guy.
10. Luggage. So, if I never put away suitcases, does that mean vacation never technically ends? OK, seriously, I need to just bite the bullet and put away all the crap including The Bag of Liquids and all the brochures that I picked up.
11. Lean on me. Beast had another 30-minute trip up the stairs to bed an hour or so ago. His back is SO bad again. Very discouraging. He can't feel his hands, and he can't feel his feet, so climbing stairs is tricky. Plus he's got "shooting" pains in his extremities, and nearly constant, 24-hour spinal pain. I'm living with an invalid who just refuses to admit the truth.
12. Lyrics. Bob Dylan needs to come down off his high horse and just accept the damn award. He makes me so tired, honestly.
13. Laughter. Truly is the best medicine. I really don't think I could make it through a day without finding something to laugh at. There is so much absurdity in the world. Like Bob Dylan blowing off the Nobel committee. lol

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Rules for Facebook* (and other social media sites as needed)

1. Every day, post pictures of your kids captioned with things like "my heroes", "my babies" (even if they're in school or older), and "amazing" things they've done. Like take their first step, join a sports team, smile in their Kindergarten photo, etc. Be sure to focus on the firstborn especially.
2. Every day, tell people you are grateful for whatever your latest kick is: working out, skywriting, creative toenail clipping. Take LOTS of pictures of yourself "proving" You Did It!
3. Be sure to momjack every post your friends make about their kids and/or their day by injecting yourself and/or your kids/family into their story. "I remember when your baby Angie was diagnosed with pediatric leukemia because that's the day Verdant-Green found out she was going to sit in the blue chair at daycare!! Crazy, eh?" Or, "Your dad was nice. I wish he hadn't died. Remember when he drove us to my 16th birthday party after I thought my party was ruined because my mom and dad's car broke and they told me I'd have to cancel the reservation at the roller rink. I was so mad that day!"
4. When people you don't like very much ask you questions, be sure to respond by answering someone else. Who didn't ask that question. For example, Jane asks, "How is your knee feeling where you fell on it?" be sure to answer "I can't believe how much my knee still hurts, Kathy! You didn't tell me it would hurt this long!"
5. Train your kids to have the same fake smile you wear in all your selfies and to plaster it on whenever a camera appears.
6. Thank God publicly at least weekly for your husband and kids and extended family because they are awesome.
7. Leave people wondering if you actually have a job because you literally NEVER talk about it. If you happen to be James Bond, we know he'd make some shit up about the water cooler, but not you. Nope. You are the original "stealth employee." [This does apply to those SAHM and SAHDs, by the way. No mention of housework, errands, dishwashing or shopping, or anyone delivering anything--that's forbidden. Only discuss your family and Very Close Friends.]
8. Be happy all the time. EVERYTHING is fine. ALWAYS.
9. Mention at least weekly the same "weird fact" about your life you think makes you super-duper special: your mis-matching eye colors, your twin brother who was a high school baseball star, your GPA in college, your dad's run for governor in 1982. But DO NOT mention anything interesting like your GPA was so high despite having mono twice, or that your twin brother works for MSF (Doctors Without Borders). Or, frankly, anything else anyone else has done. Stick to what we know already. Don't vary it too much or we might get lost.
10. Remind us regularly that your kids are star athletes, get perfect grades, wear cool clothes, have awesome friends with whom they do unbelievable things, think about growing up to be superheroes or running Apple or the U.S., and always have a fabulous attitude about things. Because those of us with normal kids who are klutzy, dyslexic, too poor to buy fun clothes, don't make friends easily, and are just hoping to not get suspended from school tomorrow so forget far-distant adulthood feel like total losers. This is REALLY IMPORTANT. Never, ever, share frustrations or moments of even vaguely awkward parenting. Because you never have them.
11. Always be sincere. And earnest. These are critical parts of your social media persona. When in doubt, pull out SMUG. That guarantees a win.
12. Always talk about your husband's side job. Not the one that pays the mortgage, but the one you can participate in yourself and thus tell us about it. Endlessly.
13. I can't think of another one. I'm too crabby from the first 12.

* I was actually prepared to post this ON Facebook when I realized that this is a much better place to rant. No one reading this that I know on Facebook does this so I'm hoping you won't be offended by it, whereas the people on Facebook who are self-aware enough to see themselves will get all pissy.

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Things Starting with K
(continuing a series started in 2010 with A)

1. Keys. I have a horrible habit of locking keys in cars, forgetting them in the house when I'm leaving, or otherwise mismanaging locking things. Fortunately, I now have a car with a code on the door, and I can get in my house without a key if necessary.
2. Knickknacks. It is so hard to get rid of tsotchkes that have been picked up from memorable places, or given to me from special people. On the other hand, if I keep gifts around for a couple of years, that's usually sufficient time that I can unload the stuff I don't really like. I've finally trained myself to only buy practical things. And S&Ps, which are inherently impractical for me anymore.
3. Kazoo. One of my favorite words to say. It's just silly and noisy and fun. Also, who can't play one?
4. Knee. I have a stellar bruise on my leg around the knee from falling on top of Beast when he fell the other night. His laptop then fell on top of me. It was a super-fabulous way to spend 1:45 a.m.
5. Knitting. I should get back to this. I haven't knitted for a decade. I need to find some help, but someday I'll finish that damned afghan!
6. Kvetching. There are few ways to waste time more completely and uselessly than complaining. And yet we do spend an awful lot of time doing it.
7. Khakis. Are they even still a thing?
8. Kitchen. My kitchen needs a complete deep-cleaning, the kind where you bring in the shovels to clear things. And then I can wipe down the counter and mop the floor and feel like one area of my house (and life) is totally under control.
9. Kangaroo. Most awesome animal on earth. A friend was in Australia last fall. He went out for his morning jog and discovered he was being shadowed by a large kangaroo: thump ... thump ... thump. A bit weird, and hilarious.
10. Keyboard. My new laptop has the extended keyboard with the number keys to the right. It's taking me some time to get used to, because the delete and other keys are set up differently from traditional keyboards. But I love the numberpad!!
11. Kudzu. At my workplace, books are kudzu. They're just bloody EVERYWHERE!
12. Kabob. Sounds yummy. We don't have anyplace nearby that serves proper kabob. Another reason I need to go back to England (or, apparently, Germany, according to Sparky).
13. Kick. I'm having a weird nostalgic turn lately about playing kickball. I hated it when I was a kid, but for some reason I'm craving the concept of kicking something as far as possible.

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13 (or so) Very Silly Dogs

1. Do not piss off the poodle, Ridley!!
   


2. "No, it's good. I'll get myself to the vet, thanks."
   


3. "I can haz all the licorice!"
   


4. "I miss Jon Stewart already."
   


5. Colorized
   


6. White and cold and whaaaaa.....!
   


7. Nice try, dude, nice try. Bye.
   


8. Nom Nom Nom
   


9. I got it I got it .... you cheat!
   


10. "I am so tir.... Are you filming this!?! OMG, I hate you!"
    


11. Sure, dogs are the ones with limited intellect. Yeah. Just keep telling yourself that.
    


12. "I was told there'd be pizza. I didn't expect to BE the pizza. Sad face."
    


13. Weaponized derp-dog.
    

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13 Titles Ordered at Work Today
(out of about 200 ordered this week)

1. Come Rain or Come Shine, Jan Karon on CD
2. Sisters Born, Sisters Found, Laura Holland [no link--we'll be the first OCLC library in the country to own it]
3. Mastering the Game of Thrones, Jes Battis
4. Complete Book of Witchcraft, Raymond Buckland
5. A Stranger's Mirror, Marilyn Hacker
6. Whitney & Bobbi Kristina, Ian Halperin
7. Saints Are Not Sad, F.J. Sheed [replacement--our last copy bit the dust inside a year]
8. Felt Wee Folk : New Adventures, Salley Mavor
9. Healing Ancestral Karma, Steven, D. Farmer
10. Cy Twombly's Things, Kate Nesin
11. McGraw-Hill Education LSAT 2016, Russ Falconer
12. The Brontë Cabinet, Deborah Lutz
13. The Great Detective, Zach Dundas

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Reasons I Like My Job*

1. First and foremost, the people. I know it's easier to whine about the idiots, but there are way more interesting and fun people. I learn something from the patron almost every day. Some days it's behavioral, some days it's factual stuff.


2. Solving a weird question. Yesterday I found a request for a CD that someone else had worked on without success. It turns out the patron had the [Spanish] title slightly wrong, and the "band" name meant "recorded live" (more or less) in Spanish. I found two or three possible recordings that might be the right one and I left it for someone to catch the patron--he's in the library almost every day--and ask him what he actually wanted.


3. I get to help people who, in many cases, really need a kind and helpful person to get them through the day. Every librarian has stories about this. Yesterday, a woman came in to register for a rewards program for a local theater online. No computer skills. As it developed, that program requires an email address, which she didn't have. So we went to yahoo and signed her up as firstname.lastname @ yah00.c0m (i.e. jane.smith @ yah00.c0m). She had to get her ID out to enter the "last name" field correctly. I knew she'd never remember her email password so I wrote it on a slip of paper: "first.last @ yah00.c0m -- password" (not the actual one of course). When she went to fill out the theater form, she typed her email addy as "firstlast @ yah00.c0m" so I had to explain again that she needed to use HER first and last name with the dot. Of course, she'll be back and not know how to log in, so I told her to be sure to hang on to that piece of paper. She was really a nice person, just not very smart.


4. Most of the people I work with are wonderful. Almost all of them are dedicated to making the library better and helping people. We get along pretty well together generally and, having worked together for a long time, we understand each other's foibles and tics. Like Maniac's regular swings from hyperactivity to relative normalcy.


5. Kids. I get to see and talk to kids of all ages regularly. I like kids. A lot. But not in a creepy way. They just inspire the hell out of me without even trying at all. Like the dude who comes in often with his dad asking for books well above his age-level on various topics (dinosaurs, chemistry, rockets...) who has a trach tube and is occasionally hard to understand because his breathing is tricky.


6. I like books. A lot.


7. The hours are somewhat flexible. I get Wednesday mornings off, for instance. Then again, I work till 9 on Wednesdays, so there's that. But if I need time for a doctor's appointment or haircut, it's not (usually) a hassle.


8. It's comfortable. Indoor plumbing, HVAC that (mostly) works. Some light lifting and carrying, but not the sort of thing that is generally dangerous or difficult.


9. Every day is different. Right now I may be cleaning up vomit, but in ten minutes I may get to give a kid her first library card, and later on I may be having a good conversation about the local conservation area with someone who is thrilled to find out about it, and then talk to an older person about finding out where her grandfather's store was in town 80 years ago.


10. I get to be smart for pay. But I don't have to learn DEEP details about too many things, which is good because I find trivia far more fun than study. ;-) Like how a siphon works: I don't care about the reason it works, but I can find you information how water is moved from one side of a mountain range to another.


11. Cataloging, how I love thee! I love sorting out where to 'store' an item, how to make it findable in the catalog or the building, how to describe it so people can find it when they want/need it. I like the freedom within the rules that librarians have developed over time--and continue develop--even when I don't agree with them.


12. I love the technical, repetitive, somewhat boring but also rhythmic tempo of moving newly-purchased items from delivery box through preparing them for patrons to use. The minutiae, the process, the organization....all that stuff is like air and food to me.


13. I love the fact that at MPOW at least, we're fairly free in what we wear to work, what we can keep on and around our desks, and how we arrange the time we spend on projects. Of course, there's always the bigger schedule to keep in mind--who is at which service desk at what time--but in terms of overall time management, we get to decide if today is the day to order books or a day to cut buttons out for storytime or a day to create an Excel file for budgeting...or a day to post on Facebook (work-related stuff!!).

*I chose this topic because right now I'm so hacked off about work I actually took a sick day rather than plow through another day of being sick at work. There are some personality issues among the staff right now that I'm not enjoying. In fact, when I called the scheduling person to tell her I wouldn't be there today because of illness, she gave me a hard time. WhatEVer--that's WHY I'm not at work, because she's being a total bitch about stuff.

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First 13 Books Purchased This Century from Amazon

1. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary [2 copies]
2. The Chicago Manual of Style : The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers (14th Edition) [2 copies]
3. The Art of Peace : Nobel Peace Laureates Discuss Human Rights, Conflict and Reconciliation, by Jose Ramos-Horta (Editor), et al. [2 copies]
4. A Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi
5. Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, by Michael Shermer & Stephen Jay Gould
6. If... Questions for the Game of Life, by Evelyn McFarlane, et al.
7. Campus Life Exposed : Advice from the Inside, by Harlan Cohen
8. Thomas the Tank Engine Says Good Night (Cloth Book), by Rev. W. Awdry
9. Goodnight Moon Board Book, by Margaret Wise Brown
10. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
11. Bush at War, by Bob Woodward
12. Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies, by Russ Kick
13. Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf, by John Zumerchik

Most of these were gifts. I think there are only three that are still in this house, and only one was for me.

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First 13 Headlines in My Google News Feed Tonight

1. 298 killed after Malaysian airliner shot down in Ukraine


2. Israel launches ground offensive in Gaza Strip


3. Putin's dangerous proxy war


4. Man convicted in 1999 fatal DUI case pleads guilty to driving drunk on same road last year


5. [Local] printing plant to close later this year


6. Two named to [Sparky's university] Dean's List


7. Summer challenge: Luring young people to libraries


8. Hobby Lobby owners hope to save America with new Bible museum


9. Climate change news: Australia repeals carbon tax


10. Militants kill 14 Tunisian soldiers in mountain ambush


11. Elaine Stritch, Broadway's enduring dame, brassy to the end, dies at 89


12. Beyoncé leads the MTV VMA nominations because of course she does


13. 2 cases of chikungunya found in Florida

All--except, perhaps, the Beyoncé news--of which is to say that we're still going to hell in a handbasket.

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On My To-Do List Tomorrow This Weekend

1. Go to a meeting.THIS is priority!
2. Figure out if we're going anywhere on Sunday.
3. Clean guinea pig cage.
4. Redo my pedicure.
5. Organize spare room.
6. Enter receipts to help out Beast with the bills.
7. Make grocery list, and shop.
8. Put away last week's laundry and start this week's laundry.
9. Mop floors, or at least sweep them.
10. Clean toilets.
11. Clean out pantry.
12. Figure out vision plan insurance.
13. Clean off desk.

It's amazing how that last item keeps ending up on the list, EVERY TIME I MAKE THE LIST!!

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Things Starting with J

1. Journal. I wish I could figure out my antipathy toward daily journaling. I'm just really lousy at it.


2. Jeans. I need to go buy some new ones. Those I own are too small. :(


3. Job. I'm in kind of a drought at work. There's a ton going on, and I feel like I'm going full-speed just trying to keep up, much less get a handle on things.



4. Jackalope. I miss the West. And I think I had this very same picture in my room as a child.


5. Joke. Yes, those are a joke. I believed in them for awhile when I was a kid, because my brother liked teasing me


6. Junk. So much of it in my life. Ugh. Need to clean. Need to purge!


7. Jeep. I have always wanted a Jeep, but I totally live in a stupid place to own one. I don't see that changing. Ever. And that's a drag. Oh, well, another dead childhood dream.


8. Jalapeño. I used to always have poppers when we went to T0mmy's (a local fast food place), but I just recently discovered they also have deep-fried mac-n-cheese! Holy crap...!


9. Jewelry. I think I will have to bite the bullet this summer and take all my rings to get them resized. My fingers are too fat already this spring to get them off (or back on) easily. The losing weight thing...hasn't been happening.


10. Jammies. Still wearing my winter flannels. I've usually started substituting in lighter ones on warmer nights, but we haven't HAD any warm nights. The winds blowing a gale out there right now, in fact.


11. Jonquil. Nor have I seen anything sprouting in my garden yet. At least I can SEE the garden now, though. The only place there's still now is the ditches.


12. Jump. I'm very used to jumping up out of chairs (and plopping into them) rather abruptly, at work and elsewhere. This week, due to a bit of middle-of-the-night acrobatics on the stairs, I'm finding it quite difficult to move much faster than the average tortoise. Hopefully, I'll be able to jump around like a psychotic flea again by Monday or Tuesday.


13. Jerk. There's been a surprising lack of them at the library this week. 'Course, I work this weekend, so there's still hope.

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13 Random Quotes I Like

1. "‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." ―Voltaire


2. "The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it." ―Katharine Graham


3. "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." ―George S. Patton Jr.


4. "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced." ―Aldous Huxley


5. "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." ―Hunter S. Thompson


6. "Your silence will not protect you." ―Audre Lorde


7. "Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time." ― Howard Nemerov


8. "I am certain there is too much certainty in the world." ―Michael Crichton


9. "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." ―Winston Churchill


10. "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life." ―Jane Addams


11. "Don't look at me in that tone of voice." ―Dorothy Parker


12. "I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us." ―Anne Lamott


13. "It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place" ―Cornelia Funke

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Books Queued Up to Read or *Reading Currently*

1. *In the Footsteps of Jesus, by Jean-Pierre Isbouts*
2. *Started Early, Took My Dog, by Kate Atkinson*
3. *Killing Floor, by Lee Child (on Nook)*
4. *A Fistful of Collars, by Spencer Quinn (on CD)*
5. *Winter Study, by Nevada Barr*
6. Suicide in Professional and Amateur Athletes (edited by David Lester and John F. Gunn III, (with 7 other contributors))
7. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan
8. The Leopard, by Jo Nesbø
9. Perfect Escape, by Jennifer Brown
10. Trapeze, by Simon Mawer
11. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain
12. The Fear Index, by Robert Harris
13. The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen, by Thomas Caplan

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Last 13 Songs I Added to My Likes on Spotify

1. Heartbeat -- JJAMZ
2. Run Boy Run -- Woodkid, Bruno Bertoli
3. The Honest Truth -- Typhoon
4. Let It Rain -- David Nail, Sarah Buxton
5. Nobody Beg You -- Femi Kuti
6. New Orleans -- Stevie Nicks
7. Bleed Red -- Ronnie Dunn
8. It Doesn't Mean a Thing -- The Airborne Toxic
9. Weekend -- Smith Westerns
10. Bad Karma -- Ida Maria
11. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) -- Marvin Gaye
12. Inside Out -- Imelda May
13. Burning Your House Down -- The Jim Jones Revue

Yeah, I do have weird taste in music but I did NOT add the Dir En Grey song that someone recommended to me...shudder...

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Quotes I Really Should Have Read 12 Hours Ago* (i.e., before I left for work)

1. Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. (Laurence J. Peter)
2. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. (Marcus Aurelius)
3. The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry. (Anonymous)
4. My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me. (William Shakespeare)
5. Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage. (Babylonian Talmud)
6. Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. (William Shakespeare)
7. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. (Thomas Jefferson)
8. When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. (Julia Cameron)
9. Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. (Aristotle)
10. Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. (Henry Ward Beecher)
11. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. (Thomas a Kempis)
12. An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. (Publilius Syrus)
13. Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. (Harriet Lerner)

And one to go forward with...
Our patience will achieve more than our force. --Edmund Burke
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*and probably need to re-read before I leave for work on Saturday

Thursday 13

(Link in meme-roll)
The 13 States I Have Not Yet Visited

1. Alabama
2. Alaska
3. Connecticut
4. Delaware
5. Georgia
6. Hawaii
7. Idaho
8. New Jersey
9. North Dakota
10. Oregon
11. Rhode Island
12. South Carolina
13. Washington

Bet you can kinda generally guess from this where I have not lived in my life! And yes, there are just 13, though of the other 37 I've only barely been inside.

Thursday 13

(Link in meme-roll)
Shows I've Mindlessly Watched Recently
(more less in reverse chronological order)

1. Cops -- because waching people act stupid while drunk or high never gets old, especially when I don't feel good
2. M*A*S*H -- as preachy as this show got on the later episodes, they always looked like they were having a blast doing the show
3. Dead Like Me -- Never watched this before this morning; may have to check it out from the library
4. Criminal Minds -- I've seen a ton of episodes in totally random order and while I have the general timeline down it would probably be good to start at the beginning one of these days
5. Today Show -- O . M . G . this show is vapid between 8:30 and 9!
6. L&O:Criminal Minds -- Bobby annoys the shit out of me, and in general all the "boys" do; they girls have to be the grownups who tap dance around their idiotic-but-brilliant partners ... and I can't stop watching
7. L&O:SVU -- Go, Mariska; kick some ass! I have a massive crush on this character
8. Deadliest Catch -- Love this show, but it is a little repetitive; this week was boring-ish (can't believe I'm saying that about a show in which a literal ton of ice falls on someone's shoulder from two stories up!)
9. Fast 'n Loud -- Beast adores this show, so I'm often held hostage by it and have come to at least tolerate The (Ridiculous) Beard
10. Hardcore Pawn -- This is truly embarrassing to admit: I'm a complete junkie for this show. One of the people reminds me of a coworker, and the siblings couldn't be more TV-friendly-dysfunctional
11. Without a Trace -- I haven't watched much of this one, but I enjoy it. It's thinkier than most of these shows
12. Mythbusters -- A perennial favorite.
13. NASCAR -- Great noise to sleep to, but lately, it's been an awful lot of Kyle Busch which sucks