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  • AboutI am also known as CraftyMoni elsewhere on the web. I am a Children’s Librarian. I am a photographer. I am a knitter. I am a reader. I am a wannabe poet. I blog. Sometimes I complain. I like to swear. I have a really twisted sense of humor. I think I might be a Zen Buddhist (Still trying to decide). Not a fan of organized religion. I am very liberal and can be vocal about it at times. I’m a daydreamer. Sometimes sassy. I try to be compassionate. I think I’m pretty nice most of the time. You can delve into deeper waters by reading these posts. You can see my photography on my Flickr page. If you like any photos you see there or on this site and would like to buy a print let me know. I would be happy to sell one to you! I blather about library stuff on  Twitter. You will also find me on Google+ and Facebook. Enjoy your visit!  
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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.
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  • Dallas Gunman Kills 3 From Car Sunroof

    March 15, 2005

    Yahoo! News – Dallas Gunman Kills 3 From Car Sunroof

    A gunman armed with an assault rifle squeezed through the sunroof of a Jaguar early Tuesday and opened fire on another moving vehicle, killing three men and critically wounding a fourth, police said.

    Alright…I’ve been reading waaay too many stories in the news the past few days about people going nuts and going on, for lack of a better way of saying it, shooting rampages…What the hell is going on? I opened up yahoo news and, down the line, all of the stories are either about Atanta shooting, anthrax being found in another post office, and now we have a person shooting through a sun roof. WTF?!?

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  • Court Rules California Cannot Ban Gay Marriages

    March 14, 2005
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    Yahoo! News – Court Rules California Cannot Ban Gay Marriages

    In a victory for gay rights groups, a California Superior Court judge ruled on Monday that the state’s voter-approved ban on homosexual marriage is unconstitutional.

    Thought I’d crawl out of my hole to post this article I just saw on Yahoo News. This is fantastic news, indeed! I remember when this went on the ballot a few years ago (the law that made marraige between a man and a woman only). Of course I voted against it. I couldn’t believe it when it overwhelmingly passed. I think Santa Cruz and San Francisco counties were, like, the only counties in Califoria that voted no on the ballot measure. Or something like that. I remember being shocked by the amount of people who voted yes. Disgusted, really. It’s hard to believe that people are so bigoted. But they are. Yes, California can be a red state, too.

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  • Dawn of the Dead – the remake

    March 2, 2005
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    I’ve been meaning to post on this all week but haven’t had a chance. Plus, I can’t get the handy Amazon plugin that I had in the earlier version of WordPress to work.

    Anyway, I just saw Dawn of the Dead Saturday night and I have to say that it is a surprisingly great movie! I like movies of the horror genre, but sometimes they can be really boring and predictable. For example, the first Halloween was great, but then all of the others sucked. I hated all of the Jason movies. I thought they were really boring. Nightmare on Elm Street – the first one, was good. Again the rest were boring. Of course, one of my favorite movies of all time is the mother of all horror flicks, Psycho. The remake of Dawn of the Dead was great. It had one ending, which is really unpredictable for a horror film. Usually they end at least five times. This one had one ending and you were left thinking, “hmm, that was a good way to end the movie”. But the really interesting part was the ending credits of the film. You can’t miss them if you watch the film. If you miss them then you miss out on what happens to the group of “survivors.” I thought what the director did with the ending credits was very clever.

    If you like horror flicks, I highly recommend this film. It won’t disappoint!

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  • More on “the neighboor”

    March 2, 2005

    Well, I don’t know if I feel so bad about our neighboor getting kicked out now….

    When I got home from work Raf told me that our landlord called and told him to put in writing all of the problems that we had with our neighbor and her psycho friends. She told him that it’s going to be very difficult to get her out of there because she is wheelchair bound. I guess the reason our landlord was going to kick her out in the first place is because she has two other poeple living there (apparently the to crazy guys that we have had to endure) and it violates the contract she signed. She is using the fact that she is in a wheel chair to force our landlord into having her stay there. So now I have to deal with running into this violent guy who knows that we called 911 on him. great.

    The good news is that, since we are putting all of this in writing, if they do anything else then our landlord can give them a three day notice and by law they have to leave. I guess. That’s what she says, anyway. I sooo want these people to leave. I can’t live next to this situation. It sucks.

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  • The wierdness continues

    March 1, 2005

    Strange happenings are going on at my apartment, as I’ve written about before. Well, it continues.

    This morning I got up at my usual time, around 5:30ish (well, maybe it was more like 5:45) and went into the living room to do my excercise tape that I do every morning. When I went in there I heard a man ranting and raving and knocking on our neighboors door (just outside our door). I kind of listened for a moment, not really sure what to do. From where I was I couldn’t hear exactly what he was saying, I just could hear him ranting and knocking on the door. Then I went into my kitchen to turn on the light. We share our kitchen wall with our neighboor’s wall. When I went in there I could really hear what the guy was saying. And at this point he was getting more aggressive. He was kicking the door (I think) and saying things like “I’m gonna kill you bitch!” and calling her other bad names. I could hear her in her apartment yelling, “No!” (as in “I’m not letting you in”). I didn’t need to hear anything else. I woke Raf up and picked up the phone and called 911. Raf looked through the peephole and gave me a description which I relayed back to the operator. (for some reason, the whole time, I was afraid to look through to peephole to see what was going on…) The operator said someone else called and she would dispatch someone. The police came and knocked on her door. She didn’t open her door! She didn’t even respond to the police! I was kind of mad at this. Except I hope she isn’t hurt or something and can’t come to the door. I don’t know. If she was yelling at the guy to go away she could have at least yelled at the police through the door. We opened our door to tell the police that we were the ones who called and he said, “I know” and pointed upstairs as if to say the neighboor upstairs called, too.”

    So we called our landlord to tell her want was going on and she called back to tell us that she is giving her a 30 day notice. She is “in violation of thier agreement.” whatever that means…

    In a way I feel bad because she is in a wheelchair and she just moved in a month ago. Now she has to move out again. But at the same time she is attracting really strange and disturbed people to our complex. In a way, I’m a little worried about her, too, even though I don’t know her very well. I mean, she is obviously in danger. This guy was really sketchy.

    The drama of it all. ugh!

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