This makes me happy at work

Asking the Microsoft Office Assistant to “Do a trick.”  My default assistant is a dog.  It is fun.

Don Miller is coming to Houston!

http://www.itickets.com/events/236394/Pasadena_TX/A_Million_Miles_Tour.html

Adventures in hat crocheting

So my hat didn’t curl as early as it was supposed to.  Now it’s like a giant green pancake with a slight curl at the edges.  Blah.  Should I pull it all out and start over?  Or does anyone have a need for a giant green pancake?

My journalist crush is coming to Houston!

Anyone want to come with me?    I know the price is a little steep – but you get the book too and he is AMAZING!

Event From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times Columnist
Rice University
Shell Auditorium, McNair Hall 
Date Sunday, October 25, 2009
Time 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Event Pricing
Ticket+Book $30.00 per attendee

http://www.wachouston.org/calendar?1=1&modpage=EventDetails&fid=9&ec=525

Banned Books Week

It’s National Banned Books Week!  Grab your favorite banned book (or a new one) and enjoy!  (If anyone’s curious, I’m reading Death Be Not Proud, title taken from the beautiful John Donne poem – http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/jdonne/bl-jdonne-death.htm)  Happy reading!

From the ALA, an intro to Banned Books Week – http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm

God reads my blog

Had a wonderful night’s sleep

Scary sleep

Something I really enjoy – sleep.  Sleep is so great that as I fall asleep, I can taste its goodness.  But lately, sleep has lost its luster.  Why?  Tiny little nightmares.  I shouldn’t call them nightmares – let’s call them strangemares. 

Recurring: Teeth and School
1.  School – forgetting about a test, not showing up on time, completely skipping a final –> these dreams suck; however my weekly Sunday night work nightmares have stopped – yay!
2.  Teeth – Loose teeth – I had lots of dreams about loose teeth – until one night, one tooth actually fell out.  The dreams stopped for a while, but now they’re coming back.  I always wake up frantically checking to see if all my teeth are still there.  (Apparently this dream is pretty dang common – when I started typing ”dream” – Google autopopulated “dream loose teeth” for me)

One-off strangemares
1.  Getting addicted to smoking – just plain bizarre
2.  Walking on ice, slipping, falling backwards – and waking up just before my head hits the ice

I need the BFG to come and blow a nice dream to me through my window.  Raja probably scares him off.

I am officially in love with this store.

http://www.shopruche.com/index.php

Oh wow look – the picture posting actually worked!

In honor of National Literacy Month

Books I’m excited about (recently released/soon to be released)

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years – Don Miller (about “fictionalizing” his life – how great is that?  live your life in a way that is so full and interesting – that it reads like fiction, or better than fiction.  Movie producers contacted DM about making a movie on his life based on Blue Like Jazz, and he realized how “boring” his life is, so went on to live more adventurously and purposefully) http://donmilleris.com/2009/04/18/excerpt-from-a-million-miles-in-a-thousand-years/

Half the Sky – Nicholas Kristof (Kristof is definitely my journalist crush.  Writes a lot on international human rights issues.  Book is on women, poverty, what we can do) http://www.halftheskymovement.org/

True Compass: A Memoir – Ed Kennedy (No explanation really needed here – fall, redemption, grace, transparency) http://www.amazon.com/True-Compass-Edward-M-Kennedy/dp/0446539252

The Wild Things – Dave Eggers (Eggers is pretty much a genius – please also read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; DE wrote the screenplay for the up and coming movie Where the Wild Things Are….this is his take on the story in a novel format – and the book comes with a furry cover, who can resist that?)  http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Things-Fur-covered-Dave-Eggers/dp/1934781622/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253037177&sr=1-3

Unfortuantely, I’m cheap and none of these titles are available at the library yet – so no, I haven’t read them, (that’s for you LB…).    I may cave though….

Happy reading!

Adaptation = worst movie ever

More to come on this…