Dark Days

As I put off homework, I thought it would be a good use of my time to write this week’s blog post.

There really isn’t a lot to say about this past week. The library had an author event (Pitch Black: Dark Days Tour) on Wednesday that I helped with. I was Kiersten White’s signing assistant and got to know her a little. We both graduated from BYU with a BA in English, so that gave us something in common to talk about.

The authors answering questions during the Dark Days Tour in the Provo Library ballroom.

Library staff at the event with our awesome Dark Days t-shirts.  I'm second from the left, not counting the guy walking in the door.

I also signed us up to attend the last taping of Studio C, which is this coming Wednesday. I’m excited to say that we’ve made it to exactly one half of all the season 2 tapings. We’ve gone to every single 9:30pm show. So, if you watch Studio C, odds are that every other sketch you see will have Ezra and me laughing in the background.

The last bit of interesting fluff from this week is that we had a staff book club meeting on Saturday. We read The Round House by Louise Erdrich. As of Friday morning we only had 47% of the book read according to my Kindle. By 10pm we had finished. I read the whole book out loud to Ezra, which was a little odd at times. There was a lot of editing on my part. It was fun though. The next book we’re reading is Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. I’m pretty excited about it and can hardly wait to get started.

Until next week!

Late Post

Superbowl Sunday is over and ... Yeah didn't watch it. But this post is late, which is my usual habit for the weeks that I post.  There are so many things that I can keep up on  and yet there are tons that I always forget about or don't put up there as a priority.  Sorry to you our loyal followers, you are a mighty 9 people.

Classes are up and rolling without a hitch for both Allison and I.  She of course is doing great, and I am putting both my feet into the mix and getting As on my quizzes and tests so far.  Here's to a great semester.

I've had this open on my computer since Sunday and it is now Friday night, Allison will tell you on Sunday about our date today I'm sure.  A lot has been keeping us busy.  We watched all 10 episodes of Taken, the Sci-Fi original series from the early 2000s before they changed their name to Sy-Fy....  anyway, it was good and kept you interested.  Before that we were watching Boy Meets World, and finished all 7 seasons in a few months.  Now Allison will start reading the Provo Library Staff Book Club book to me as I draw.  I'm not much of a reader and I tend to like listening to novels more than reading them.  So this little arrangement we've got set up works well for me, hopefully her voice holds out so that she can get through The Round House by Louise Erdrich.  Which, bytheway, every time I hear the title I think of the martial arts move called a roundhouse kick. But that's probably just me.  We'll let you know how it is.

Peace, and enjoy the Lightning snow.

Really Darn Cold

The temperature around here has stayed around… really cold (-2F out right now, and the high today is 8F). We got some weather alerts on our phones about a storm that was coming in on Thursday. Well, we didn’t get out of work until 9pm and it had already snowed a bit. The roads weren’t too bad but when I tried to pull onto our road my car lost traction and I was stuck. Ezra got out and gave me a push until I managed to get far enough out of the snow to regain traction and make it up our road. Friday we didn’t have to go anywhere, thank goodness. So we stayed home and enjoyed watching the snow fall while being warm inside. Saturday when we left for work I lost traction briefly pulling off our road and onto the highway, but that was the only time and it didn’t cause any problems.

Saturday after work we attended our first ever Staff Book Club. We’re going to be reading Round House by Louise Erdrich. It won the National Book Award this past year so I look forward to digging into it. I promised Ezra that as I read it I would read it out loud to him since he’s not one for sitting down and curling up with a book. This way we can get through it together and both talk about it at our next book club meeting.

I finished my first online grad school class Friday! I think it’s funny that one week after having access to the class I’m done. Okay, so I’m not officially done. There is one assignment where I have to attend a collaboration session and all the sessions last week were already full, so the soonest I could attend was today. My session is tonight at 5pm MST. Once I attend that I’ll be able to finish the assignment and then I’ll really and truly be done with Libr203. I look forward to starting my other two classes next week when they become available.

Well, that’s all the news from our neck of the woods. Hopefully next week will be a little more exciting.