Oh, Kat, all kinds of ~ma for Noah and you.

I picked up Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows audio CD's from the library for the epic drive from California to Colorado. I have never done an audio book before.

I adore the Harry Potter audiobooks. Jim Dale pretty much rocks. I listen to audio books for my commute every day. Keeps me somewhat sane for an insane commute. I've been listening to them for years on my car trips from Chicago to Memphis.

Lots of ~ma for Noah, Kat. And you and K, too.

I haven't been doing enough long-duration commuting to justify borrowing audiobooks, but when I did, I found my best experience was with books that I'd previously read in print, because they opened up a new aspect of the text to me -- I've got a fairly lively internal "reading voice" but the pros really bring out authorial voice (especially British authors, with the accents) that I can't.

I haven't been doing enough long-duration commuting to justify borrowing audiobooks, but when I did, I found my best experience was with books that I'd previously read in print

That's what I do when I have long drives by myself -- I get audiobooks of books I've already read, because that way I can focus on driving instead of focusing intently on a plot with which I'm unfamiliar.

Because what would totally happen is I'd be driving, and then get engrossed in the plot and end up driving into a ditch, or an 18-wheeler.

I have an audio recording of ee cumming poetry that almost killed me that way.

I can't listen to any spoken word material when I am driving, or any purely instrumental music, because of the whole trying not to die fiery thing.

I have an audio recording of ee cumming poetry that almost killed me that way.

David Sedaris? Almost killed me. I was laughing too hard to see the road.

I love listening to mystery/suspense stuff like James Patterson or Ken Follet when I'm driving. Oddly, I don't like actually reading those books, but I love listening.

For long car trips I like lecture series from The Teaching Company, but my family usually outvotes me and we get music instead of, say, History of Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World. (It's Driver's Choice in our car and I *am* the primary driver, but sometimes you gotta keep the peace.)

I like audiobooks, but my DH does not. We are not audiobook compatible!

So, on Saturday all the locks in the library were replaced (a custodial worker lost a key ring months ago, and the whole building had to be re-keyed). Saturday.

Someone (who knows nothing about the library) decided along the way that some of us didn't need all the access we had before, so I no longer have a library master key. I am the #2 boss person in the library. I no longer have access to a department I supervise, or to Tech Services (which I don't, but often need to go up there to find things).

Bets on when this gets straightened out?