The Greatest Job on Earth!

I love my job.

It's great. It's the cutest bookstore in the state. I only have to work the floor twice a week, I get to arrange schedules for and meet lots of my favorite authors, I can work from school, home or wherever, and I think I'm actually pretty good at what I do (which is always a good feeling).


(The gang after a successful signing with former president Jimmy Carter... He gave me a hug just after this picture was taken.)

I've worked at this place, (I realized this on Tuesday), for EIGHT years. EIGHT!!! I know for most people in a career that's totally not an impressive number, but I never really thought of this as a career. I started working there when I was 13 years old, and somehow, with no plan or motive to do so, I've climbed my way up the book-store ladder. I went from young Harry Potter/Junie B. Jones event helper to payed holiday giftwrapper. From there I became a children's room book seller, and now here I am, Children's Marketing Manager.


(Picture book author, Jan Brett)

And I get to work with great people! A) My mom, whom I get along with really well. B) Everyone else, including my bosses Anne and Margaret, who are really wonderful people. Margaret came to my house and helped address wedding invitations, for crying out loud! And I've made so many friends in past coworkers there: John, Jan, Connie, Mary, Kelly... I'm near tears just thinking about it. I just love my job. It's one of my favorite places on earth. That's why my husband chose to propose to me there. He knew it was a really important place for me.



I know I won't be there forever, but it has such a large place in my heart that I know the feelings and friendships I've had from there will remain with me forever.

(The wedding shower they threw for me. The food was all Italian themed.)

Things To Do Today:

Learn how to calculate federal income taxes... before my test tomorrow.

Catch up on a few important e-mails for work.

Read at least 50 pages of the ARC I have sitting on my nightstand.

Watch last week's episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Try and find a good pair of cheap jeans at Nordstrom Rack.

Go to work.

And then hopefully late tonight I can go to my in-law's house and watch the last episode of White Collar, and THEN watch tonight's episode, which I believe will be the season finale.

What an exciting life it is that I lead...

The Confessions of a Denial Addict

I've realized that I live my life pretending that I'm not a student at a major university. I'm on my eighth semester of school and I have three more ahead of me. (It was going to be five more semesters but then I decided not to get my language certificate in Italian.)

But seriously, I didn't go to school today. Instead I slept until 7:15 then started doing my homework. Now you may be thinking, "well doing your homework certainly counts as student behavior", but you must understand that I've pushed all this homework to the absolute last minute. I have to drive the long drive to school tomorrow, take a very difficult test that I've only now just begun to study for, turn in two finance assignments that I haven't started or even read the relating chapters that will teach me HOW to do the assignments, and then turn in the five-page formal book review I was supposed to have drafted out for peer review a week ago, but really, I haven't even outlined the paper... I haven't even read more than 1/5 of the book! I've had ample time to prepare all these things, and yet I've instead only let myself focus on work and my social life.

I mean, yes, I did do some of it this morning, but that's because I only have three hours left before I go to work to work the late shift. And I don't know if I'm going to be up for an even later night tonight, or an early morning tomorrow before I have to go to school.

So now you're wondering how on earth I'm going to get it all done. And the answer is, I have no clue, but I sorta don't care. I'll do what I can on the assignments, then I'll try and get some more studying in before work. If I can I'll outline my paper tonight quickly before I go to bed. Then tomorrow I'll wake up, review more test notes quickly, take the test, turn in the assignments and then try and write my paper while in my first three classes.

Why am I so calm? Because I've lived my life like this for the past seven semesters, and I haven't failed a class yet. (I've had two Ds, but they still counted as a pass.)

So here I am, blogging as I give my mind a rest from the political arrangements of 335 BC in Israel. In fact, all this morning I kept thinking, maybe I should go try and do some yoga. I've never really done yoga before, but maybe this morning will be a good day to start.

Days Full of Silly Sickness

I'm sick. Stupid sickness.

There are days in your life when you wish you were sick. And there are days in your life when you actually are. And it seems to me those days never coordinate with each other. Instead we always end up sick at home on the days when we really can't afford to be ill, and stuck in our dull lives on the days we really wish we were.

May I just ask, "What is UP with the universe?" Are the forces of nature trying to teach us something? Patience? Responsibility? Punctuality?

I donno.... Whatevs.

My brain hurts to much to think about it this hard.

I'm just going to go finish my top ramen.

Another List to Share, ThisOne More Literate

Books Books Books!

I confess, I read books. In fact, my life seems to be very much dependent on them. Why, as of right now, I can honestly say that every corner of my life is adding more and more books to my list of To Be Reads.

This is not to say I don't love books. I most certainly do. I've been reading books habituouly since ever I could read. (Yes, I just said 'ever could I read'.)

So, sticking with the whole List theme of late, here are a couple of lists for you to ponder:


Books I've Greatly Enjoyed: (in no order of preference)