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Apr. 25th, 2011 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings:
- One of the best things, besides the obvious, about con is the way that it provides marvelous opportunities for handcrafts. I did two thirds of a sock while I was there, and started a second one. So my bright blue pair is done (except for weaving in ends) and I've started on a bright yellow pair, using this pattern. It's very exciting.
- It's amazing how many of the things that my new boss at Kingston is changing to be the same way they were when I got hired six years ago. The Friends of the Library book sale shelf that used to be by the front door, then moved to the end of the nonfiction, then got tucked back by the biographies? Now by the front door again. The current issues of magazines that, lo these many years ago, Kingston was the only branch that allowed to be checked out but then we had to make them reference copies like all the other branches? Now people can check them out again. It's amusing.
- Today, I went to a Medieval Poetry reading that my sister Katie was involved in. People read in Polish and Catalan and Galician-Portuguese and Latin and Middle English and Old Norse and it was very exciting. The guy reading in Old Norse read the Þrymskviða (aka Thor-in-a-dress) and was tremendously entertaining. Katie was part of a resurrection play in Latin and read part of the Nun's Priest's Tale in Middle English and was generally awesome.
- Due to the crazy Sanctuary thing, I put a biography of actualfax Nikola Tesla on hold at the library and started reading it today. Forty-four pages in, I am pretty sure that Mr Tesla was one of the most hilariously awesome people ever. Also this, from the foreword: "In 1959, two rather short biographies of Tesla appeared. ... Margaret Storm's book, published by herself and printed in green ink, was based on the assertion that Tesla was an embodiment of a superior being from the planet Venus!" That is amazing.
Now there is going to be more knitting. Hurrah!
- One of the best things, besides the obvious, about con is the way that it provides marvelous opportunities for handcrafts. I did two thirds of a sock while I was there, and started a second one. So my bright blue pair is done (except for weaving in ends) and I've started on a bright yellow pair, using this pattern. It's very exciting.
- It's amazing how many of the things that my new boss at Kingston is changing to be the same way they were when I got hired six years ago. The Friends of the Library book sale shelf that used to be by the front door, then moved to the end of the nonfiction, then got tucked back by the biographies? Now by the front door again. The current issues of magazines that, lo these many years ago, Kingston was the only branch that allowed to be checked out but then we had to make them reference copies like all the other branches? Now people can check them out again. It's amusing.
- Today, I went to a Medieval Poetry reading that my sister Katie was involved in. People read in Polish and Catalan and Galician-Portuguese and Latin and Middle English and Old Norse and it was very exciting. The guy reading in Old Norse read the Þrymskviða (aka Thor-in-a-dress) and was tremendously entertaining. Katie was part of a resurrection play in Latin and read part of the Nun's Priest's Tale in Middle English and was generally awesome.
- Due to the crazy Sanctuary thing, I put a biography of actualfax Nikola Tesla on hold at the library and started reading it today. Forty-four pages in, I am pretty sure that Mr Tesla was one of the most hilariously awesome people ever. Also this, from the foreword: "In 1959, two rather short biographies of Tesla appeared. ... Margaret Storm's book, published by herself and printed in green ink, was based on the assertion that Tesla was an embodiment of a superior being from the planet Venus!" That is amazing.
Now there is going to be more knitting. Hurrah!
