Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Category: Random

Just random crap. Foolish gibberish.

  • Current event Wednesday: mmmm. chocolate…

    Criminy I’m having a bad day! sigh. I need to think about something nice. Like Chocolate! Did you know that the South Americans were eating Chocolate more than 3,000 years ago? New research shows that they were: Residents of Central America were enjoying chocolate drinks more than 3,000 years ago, a half millennium earlier than…

  • Current Event Wednesday. Scratching head.

    Okay. So I’ve been looking over today’s headlines to find something to post about and I got stuck. I got stuck because this article is one of the top U.S. headlines on CNN.com at the moment: Tired of slights, embarrassment, man sheds 87 pounds Tim Welch was never the kind of guy who worried about…

  • An idea for a bumpersticker

    “I hated Bush before it was cool.” That has to have already been done, though…It just kind of percolated up to the surface of my brain cells last night as I was making dinner…. I don’t know how fun it would be to drive around in this town with it on my car, though. Then…

  • To the people of Spokane

    You are supposed to aim the sprinkler TOWARD the lawn. Not the street. I got blasted by THREE sprinklers while walking to work this morning. Three! Your wasting water! That is all.

  • The Book Thief

    I just finished reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Wow. I am really kind of blown away by it. It’s truly an amazing book. Superbly written. There are some beautiful lines and phrases in this story. It’s a little long but well worth the read. Oh and the Characterization is great, too. It’s narrated…