Blatherskite

Foolish gibberish

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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.

  • Spying on UC Santa Cruz Students

    Here’s an interesting article written about students from my Alma Mater, U.C. Santa Cruz (sigh…) being spied on through Bush’s NSA spying program. The group of students are part of a group who call themselves Students Against War, and, apparantly, there was a bit of a scuffle between them and some military recruiters on campus…

  • Overheard

    Here are a couple of comments I overheard in the Children’s area of the library last week: Girl walks up to dad and says, “Dad, there’s a book I want to check out, is that okay?” Dad: “What’s the name of it?” Girl says the name but all I remember is that it has “Salem”…

  • 5 Random Facts

    I’ve been tagged by Dianne at Daffodil Lane: for the 5 Random Facts meme: 1. I am deathly afraid of high places. It can be a problem at times, espeically when go for hikes. Maybe someday I will tell you how I came to be afraid of heights. 2. I hate housework and I’m a…

  • Impeach him

    Truthout posts a couple of news articles that talk about how some Senators and Representatives, namely Boxer and Lewis, are discussing whether or not Bush should be impeached for spying on Americans. All I can say is IT’S ABOUT TIME congress started getting tough with the Bush administration! It’s about time that they push back.…

  • The Library Lady

    Yesterday I was rushing through the bus station to catch my connection and I saw a group of preschool kids in a row that I thought might be a group that comes to my story time at the library. As I was rushing past them I heard, “Hey, I think that’s the library lady..Is that…