My student was sharing with me a cool search tip with google & bing and from a picture of a happy box of french fries or something..I found this. What What on flickr takes a lot of pictures of signage & statues & a lot of them are from Japan..this one..well..seriously, what is going on here? I don't want to know....HA!
This is an amazing talk by Clay Shirky who is a media consultant and professor in the Interactive Technologies program at NYU. It should be required watching for every teacher in the world.
I want these either in my house or my place of work!
Do you ever have days when you just disgust yourself? I'm having one of those days. For some weird reason, I've been a complete eating machine today. I got up at 5:20, had raisin bran, stopped for a super big gulp of Diet Pepsi on the way to work, got to work and had a cup of decaf coffee and piece of half fossilized pecan pie that Scooterkitty brought to work last week, and I just took some things up to the faculty room and stopped off and had a corn dog in the cafeteria. It is only 9:15. I feel gross and oily and disgusting.
Break starts at 9:25, maybe eating one of those beautiful cinnamon crumb donuts that are in the cafeteria will help to settle my stomach ...
Or maybe a piece of fruit cake that's in the library refrigerator ...
For most people,
It's that time of year when the world falls in love
Every song you hear seems to say ...
Merry Christmas may your New Year's dream come true ...
Well, if you work in a school library and technology center, it's that time of year when 50% of your job is to make people leave and go outside. Literally, 50% of my job!!!
Answer a question on citing a primary source in a secondary source ...
Make boy #1 leave for playing games on MiniClip.
Answer a question about footnoting ...
Make a girl leave for watching music videos on Youtube.
Help a kid find a place of publication and create a hanging indentation ...
Make boy #2 leave for walking up behind his friend and trying to delete all of his friend's work.
You get the picture.
At least, though, I have a job that's fun most of time. Just not so much today ...
So, my family can up to visit this weekend and I was super excited about it. I didn't even realize how much I missed them all. 8 kids and 8 adults spent the better part of the weekend in my apartment because of all the rain that was coming down in L.A. It was still super fun. I even got to cook a meal - Asian Short Ribs (recipe from Real Simple) in a slow cooker and baked lots of cookies for them.
It was great seeing all the kids and having them giggling and having fun even though I live in a studio and we were all super cramped. My nieces and nephews are all really well mannered children. I took them to my favorite restaurant and the waitress was so impressed. I should have taken all the credit since she thanked me...but I didn't...and ok, why was i seated at the kids table?!? It was fine because I played some weird connect the dot game with Jaiden so that was good. He's usually so quiet and shy...
Ok, the title of this post..
So we were driving to the hotel and my nephew Micah, the one in the blue sweater, starts asking for a song and he keeps saying, "Little Big Time." His older brother, Noah, asks him "Little Big Planet?" And he's getting frustrated and keeps saying "No. Little Big Time" in his little 2 year old voice. I ask him "Micah, sing the song.."
So he starts kind of singing "Little..big.. time. doo doo do" And I'm thinking, "what's that?"
Noah says "he wants to hear "Sweet Carolline." " Because they really love that Glee soundtrack and that's one of the songs!!!
Oh my gosh! I almost died from the cute! So now every time I hear that song I'll think "Little Big Time!" HA HA HA!!!
Here are those cookies I made today. Not sure they look as good as they taste but here you go...
Delicious!
Anyway, here's my family...And the closest we got to seeing the Hollywood sign! LOL!
More puppy picks! I love them!
And yes, it belongs in all CAPS!
so, back at the library because it's sunday. I was supposed to run this morning but it was ice cold and pitch black at 6am so I stayed curled up in bed dreaming of baking and all the things I need to get done today.
I spent the morning watching "The Big Bang Theory" Season 1.
I love Sheldon! This show had me laughing so much and maybe it's a little sad that I can understand a lot of the nerdy references. But this show is so great and the characters are awesome and I love everyone in it.
Also, I continued my winter holiday baking extravaganza!!!! extravaganza!!!!! EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My house smells like chocolate cookies. Last night, I started making ginger cookies and I wanted to throw in some crystallized ginger candies in there but I had to drive all over the Valley to find crystallized ginger. Someone totally was thinking the same thing and bought it all up in every store within a 5 mile radius!!! Do you believe that??!??? ugh! But, after an hour of driving, I finally found some at the store closest to my studio! Double GAH!!! But they add a nice little ginger pop so I'm happy even though I totally wasted gas...oh well. So I finished that up this morning and then started what has to be my best cookie EVER!
I took this Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe from the Food Network and tweeked it a bit. I added toffee bits, more chocolate chips, and melted a cup of chocolate (I kind of had stuff lying around so I just threw them in the bowl). Let me tell you! YUM! My mouth is watering thinking about it. I need to make more because this recipe is a winner! I could eat a whole batch of them by myself. When I get home I'll post some pictures but they might not look as delicious as they taste. I need to send these up to Felicious and my new penpal.
Things that I should write more about:
Penpal Party - i got my first letter today! and sent out one last week! I love it :) Letters are so fun! I have to send my new penpal some stuff...
Family visiting days - my family was here...I miss them...
Annoying Patron - um. there is 1 woman who annoys the crap out of me every Sunday. I can't deal with her and it's like she's a cat and can sense it, You know, I have a mild cat allergy and cats know and they are always making a b-line towards me...this woman is the same way. She just needs to not come to my station at the reference desk. She got on my bad side and for some reason I'm not letting it go with her. Most of the time I just forget people but she was that awful. I think I kind of tick her off on purpose. I know, that's mean but I can't help it----she's evil!
Alright, that's all for now. Happy Sunday from the Reference Desk!!!
Did you see this? Someone posted it on Friendfeed and then I followed the boingboing link and then I followed that link... Here it is
http://www.nakedapartments.com/blog/creepy-creeper/#
Oh my gosh! oh my gosh! that is the so scary!! And I really shouldn't have watched this at 6:45am!!! The hairs on the back of my neck went up! And she lived there for weeks!!! weeks!!!! Ok, and it's over the news now too!
