I just discovered there's a "publisher" (Alphascript, google ti) that takes a bunch of Wikipedia articles, puts them together, slaps a stock photo cover on it, and sells it as a POD book on Amazon for $80+. And this is apparently perfectly legal, as there is a disclaimer in the print book that all the articles come from Wikipedia and are in the public domain. They have many thousands of these "books" listed at Amazon, and they have ISBNs.

Man, "publishing" amazes me.

I am waiting for a fax to be received in New York (from Iowa), so they can scan it and email it to me here in MA, so I can submit it electronically to the federal government. Good times.

That seems...overly complicated. Good grief.

I've been putting beets in our juicer! Beet, carrot, orange = DELICIOUS!

I now live right near the healthy juicer store, where there's a beet/ginger/apple/aloe/tons of other crap drink that is very delicious! But makes you pee funny colors.

got waked up in the wee hours this morning by a mouse scampering across me while I slept.

That is worse sleep that I got. Good lord. Ick. Ew. Gross. Poor Matt.

r a one stop on Virgin America that's about fifty bucks less, but requires 7AM flights on both ends.

Maybe if the other choice were like, AwfulAirline. But JetBlue? Take the nonstop at decent hours!!

Does the Scooba do an initial wipe-down with a dust cloth before the mop up?

NO! Because I was looking at the Scooba, and found out if you...um...happen to be really bad at sweeping, you need a Roomba BEFORE the Scooba! (Hmm, but then your information is saying different. Maybe they've improved it...)

Oh, also, I have this old friend, who I realized gets in touch with me every couple of years when he's having romantic woes, kind of to pull on the old thread, just like some peoples' ex-boyfriends do. But he was never my boyfriend! (For which I am now, knowing what I know of him the past 16 years, deeply grateful.) Also, he's an idiot! He's having another mid-life crisis and wants to buy a motorcycle and spend the summer exploring America (he's 36; he had his first at 28; also he has broken one engagement and gotten one divorce, not involving the same woman, in the past 8 years. He's also in the 6th year of writing his dissertation, and has been in grad school since 1996).

I wish I didn't like him so much, despite his idiocy.

Question for librarians out there re: recommended library school classes.

I'll be done with my three required classes by the end of the year, and then I'll be able to take whatever nine classes I want to complete my degree. For my post-degree career, I would love to work in a public library again, but after chatting with my sister last night about my poking around the LISJobs website yesterday, I'm thinking that I also wouldn't mind working in DC for either the federal government or maybe one of the museums.

Are there certain classes I could take that would cover all three tracks: museums, government, and public? Looking at the course catalog for Dominican, I see four different speciality reference database classes, a few on special libraries, and one that I was already planning on taking on government documents (which will be great for my current job).

There's a character called Jessica on the soap opera my two cube-neighbors are watching and she seems really evil and it is SO DISTRACTING TO KEEP HEARING MY NAME IN THAT CONTEXT OMG.

flea, that sounds like a one-time roommate of mine. Last I heard, he was in his fifth year of grad school, and his master's thesis was around 500 pages and counting.

Couldn't be the same guy. Mine would be closer to 50 by now. And too flaky to get engaged, much less married.

Did/Does your guy have a habit of walking around outdoor hallways in his underwear?

Are there certain classes I could take that would cover all three tracks: museums, government, and public

In public service areas, I don't think so, though the reference databases courses might. I think of museums as being more archive focused, while government and public might be more reference oriented depending on what government agency you mean.

If you were interested in technical services, like cataloging, there would be more carryover.

I noticed at the Library of Congress job listings that they also mentioned the Congressional Research Service, so I was thinking that working at either place would be pretty neat.

I've had to rearrange my I Have Seen Things That Cannot Be Unseen tasks thanks Bring Your Children To Work Day.

Dagnabbit, I was about to run out to Trader Joe's, but it just started raining. Tomorrow....