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.

Month: March 2007

  • Kind of made me smile

    After work I made my (almost) daily visit to the grocery store to grab some things for dinner. My plan was to also pick up a couple of fluorescent lightbulbs. Regular lightbulbs will not suffice. I am going to replace them all, eventually, with the fuorescent ones. They are much more energy efficient. Which means,…

  • Google Themes

    About a week (or so) ago I noticed that on my Google Hompage I could select a theme. Hmm. New feature. Thought I would try it out. It turns out it’s very cool and I’m totally obsessed with it. When you choose a theme you type in your zip code and the theme changes depending…

  • Fairest

    I know I’ve been posting a lot of book reviews lately. I hope you don’t mind. But there is really a lot of fantastic Y.A. and Juvenile fiction out there and I’ve really been enjoying reading it! Fairest, by Gail Carson Levine has to be one of my favorites. It takes place in the world…

  • Deep Creek Canyon

    You’ll be seeing more from this place. It was really cool

  • Look what I found at my mom’s house

    It’s my old copy of “Thriller!” Dude. I am sooo glad I didn’t sell this during my “born-again-Christian” phase. Remember when he looked like a normal human? He looked good! Why did he have to go and screw it up? And, man! This is a GOOD album! Seriously! I’m listening to it right now and…