I think that in addition to cake, mom's should be able to revisit their pain killer of choice on the anniversary. I'd like an epidural right now.

Tis is a wonderful plan and should be put into effec immediately.

On the one hand, i can't believe Emeline is laready a year old. On te other, I can't believe she's only a year old. Haven't we always had a Princess Emeline teleporting around?

Emiy+Education=4Ever!

Sorry about te trees, Beverly. Sadmaking.

Mmm, coffee.

Anyone know how to do an MLA citation for a blog?

Sorry vw, am only APA compliant, and even then a blog would challenge me.

Treat it like a regular web page if the specific post has a stable url: [link]

If it doesn't, more like a posting board message: [link]

My MLA handbook is in storage. And predates blogs. Sorry.

t /not helpful

(eta: dude, librarians know everything!)

Thanks, flea!

MLA citation for a blog?

There's no specific rule for blogs as different any other kind of internet citation, for which the rules are here: [link]

If you're quoting a specific post, be sure to use the permalink URL, and if you're referring to the blog as a whole, use the main page. For a typical blog post, a basic format of:

Author. "Title of post". Online Posting. Posting date. Title of blog or site. Date you accessed it.

I think it's goofy that the site title isn't underlined the way a book would be, and there's no absolute standard for insanely long. But hey, it's a big improvement over the previous edition of the MLA handbook, where you just cited things as "Internet" @@

(And flea beat me to it. This is why I'm not really a library employee.)

Crap Crap Crap.

Work is so slow at my job, that they sent some of us home. Without pay of course.

Hi, everybody. Interview went okay. Visited a couple of classrooms, met with the middle school principal as well as the high school. Didn't project confidence as much as I might have liked, but didn't, I think, put my foot in my mouth too badly. The principals are nice and the school is gorgeous and all in all I think I'd really like it, but I think it'll come down to how desparate they are (that is, how many actually experienced teachers are available at this point in the school year). On the upside, it looks like they may be hiring for two positions instead of one, so two times the chances for desperation! Now just a wait-and-see.

And happy birthday to the gorgeous Emeline!

Steady vibeage, Emily.

No, Epic, the power company is just concerned about the ice storms we get, and limbs falling on the power lines. They have no interest whatever in trees, except in killing them whenever possible. They are concerned about limbs falling on the power lines when we have our frequent ice storms, so they want to "trim" them back as far as possible, because they don't want to have to come back and trim them again any more often than absolutely necessary. So if they can damage a tree past recovery so that it dies, then the homeowner is responsible for taking the tree down, and the power company doesn't have to worry about those limbs any more.

These oaks have been here since I was a child, my dad planted them--they were perhaps 20 years old at that point. I can't circle the trunks with my arms. They've been home to squirrels and birds, and provided a barrier to eyes and noise from the road and the neighborhood.

What will happen now, since they didn't top the trees or thin them out symmetrically, is that when we get an ice storm the unsupported top branches will break. The heavy limbs left will overbalance the trunk and make the trees unstable. Their lifespans have been shortened.

It's probably just as well, though. Whoever has this house after us will no doubt not want to deal with venerable trees, and would sooner plant tidy Bradford pears or crape myrtles--tame trees, that are small and non-threatening.