( Bones Spoilers!!! )

I love this show.

I started keeping a list of books I've read for 2010... I'm averaging about 3/week right now, though I'm sure that will change, as I get back into working on gifts for baby showers and trying to find a job for when my current one is finished at the end of March.

I've managed to pick up a few books that I've been looking forward to reading. I've got the first book of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series to pick up next, and I'm currently into Audrey Niffenegger's second novel Her Fearful Symmetry.

I also picked up Kathy Reichs' first novel, Déjà Dead. My mom started reading Reichs before it was optioned as a tv series, and she says that she hasn't ever been able to get into the tv series because of that. Now I understand why.

Aside from some basics (like name and occupation), Reichs's Temperance Brennan and Fox TV's Bones are completely different. Reichs' character is older (40+), has family (a daughter in college! an ex-husband! and a grandmother!) and friends (a best friend! a potential future love interest! a cat!), and is just a member of the team in the office that she works in in Montreal. She's also far more... um... well-adjusted and "normal" than the TV version, with an exaggerated independent investigative streak. Now, I <3 Bones (the TV series), so it took me a few minutes to get into the world that the written Tempe inhabits. But, once I got used to it, and was able to treat them as two completely different works (pretending that it's just an unusual coincidence that the two characters have the same name helps)

Once I got past the character thing, I did enjoy the book. Especially the descriptions of Montreal. It was weird to read the descriptions of places that I'd walked past for two years. Also, Tempe's best friend in the book lives on Carré St. Louis, right around the corner from my Montreal apartment, and the descriptions of the area were so good that I could pick out the exact building that she describes.

Verdict: I liked it, but I don't think I'll be picking up any more of this series. At least, not until the TV show is over.

First ever real librarian professional interview, and I got the job!

Starting Monday, I will be a Cataloguing Librarian at the Manitoba Legislative Library. I will be working on a special collection of Manitoba History and Heritage monographs that was donated to the Library.

I get to join the real world! (on a 6-months half-time term, but still- real world!)

It's the 17th of August

It's 18 degrees (Celsius) in Lynn Lake (take a look at the map for an idea of where that is!)


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... and THAT'S the warmest place in the province?????





>:( where did my summer go???

ok, I know. I haven't posted anything anywhere in forever. Blame it on the "having-to-share"-itis, compounded by no-wireless-connection-in-range. Hopefully, I will be able to fix that soon (keeping my fingers crossed for a part-time job, or for someone to call me up for an interview).

In the meantime, I just found out that the trailer for the movie version of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (sp?) is out.

In case I haven't mentioned it, TTTW was about the best thing I read (well, listened to) last summer. It was fantastic. And the movie looks to be about as good. I really wasn't sure that Rachel McAdams was the right choice for Claire, but from the trailer, she seems ok. And Eric Bana as Henry, the time traveling librarian? Fantastic.

I'm definitely looking forward to August 14th!

(In other news, the state of disconnection isn't getting to me too badly, based on the fact that summer decided to show it's face in Southern Manitoba about 2 days after I did. The weather has been downright amazing)

EDIT: Silly me. I forgot to add a link to the official movie site and trailer. So here it is.

I've been home for a week now. I haven't gotten much done, except kinda start looking for work, and go to the library three times, but I'm getting there.

Of course, it doesn't help that:
a. No wireless means I have to share the one internet-connected computer with two other people
b. My sister insists on sleeping in the rec room where the computer is, and gets really bitchy if I wake her up before 1pm.
c. It has finally been absolutely gorgeous out for the last two days, requiring me to spend all (or, well, most) of my time outside.

So, with all that going on, I haven't really had time to update anything (in fact, since I don't have my own bookmarks, I keep forgetting to check things, never mind update them). But I am hoping that I can find a wireless router for cheap soon, and get it installed so that most of those problems go away.

And hey, if that happens, I should even be able to get the internet to work outside, and all will be well.

(Oh yeah... I did manage to get my car to start, and renew the insurance, so at least I have wheels. Which is awesome. I love my car. But I'm also going to work at getting my bike out on the road tomorrow, so that I don't use as much gas and get some exercise. But we'll see how well that works out)

At the beginning of this school year, I made a series of resolutions (available here). Now, being a scant 16 days until I officially leave the student life behind, seems like a good time to go back and see how I did on actually keeping them.

Paying attention in class was actually quite easy for all of first term- the courses were interesting, and I actually learned things. Yes, there were some days when they were less than enthralling, but I think I managed to stay interested for the most part. Second term, was a lot more difficult in this regard, but I did manage to do not too badly in all the classes, and I did learn things in 3 out of 4 (Cataloguing was a wash, but I think that was at least partly because I'd been working in cataloguing for 8 months before this course started). So, first two resolutions, I would say got kept pretty well.

Resolution number three was the anti-procrastination resolution, and I thought at the outset that this was going to be the most difficult one to maintain. Strangely enough, it was pretty easy. I even finished a final assignment 12 DAYS early. I've never done that before. There were moments when the procrastinator in me did take over, but all in all, I'd say this one was a moderate success as well.

Readings were also easier to keep up with this year- mainly because there weren't as many (or, in some cases, none!) So that went pretty well too.

I'm not sure, however, that I really took advantage of living in Montreal the way I could have. But, I do have a week coming up with my parents here (not together for the whole time, thank god!) when i should get to see some of the stuff that I haven't seen yet. So I'm withholding judgment on this one.

Serenity seems elusive to me most of the time, but I think I was better than usual about letting things slide when I knew I couldn't change them. That does not, however, mean that I didn't spend considerable time dwelling on them. So, while Resolution 6 worked out ok, 7 & 8 were mostly unsuccessful. Or, sporadically successful (despite dwelling on the bad, I am still an optimist- there's a positive spin for everything, if you know how to find it). and, on the whole, I think 9 fits into this category as well.

But, being that the last resolution was to not berate myself if these were not all possible, I think I can call these resolutions a success.

Which is unusual, since I stopped making New Year's Resolutions when I realized (at about 19) that I'd never managed to keep any of them for an entire year.

And, with that, I am giving myself permission to be slightly rudder-less for a couple of weeks. Come June 8th, however (the latest date for the first day of waking up in my own bed), I am going to have to have a plan- for getting a job, a life, and moving out of Dad's house.

Until then, I am planning to enjoy the last two weeks of freedom.

Ok, so this season on TV has been pretty awesome- especially the longer-than-usual seasons to make up for the short seasons of last year.

But really, I may just have to stop watching dramas if they keep going the way they are. Most of the dramas I watch are killing off my some of my favourite characters (or at least threatening to!)

But now for the spoilers:

( Gray's Anatomy )

( Private Practice )

( The Big Bang Theory )

And finally,

( Bones )

So, that's all for season finales so far, except ER. But that one was a while back, and the most I can really say now, is that I'm really glad they ended it the way they did. Lots of pomp and circumstance surrounding the last season, but the show ended on a quiet note.

And now- a short update on real life. I'm currently in the middle of my last free weekend in Eastern Canada. I've got boxes everywhere in my room, mostly half-packed or empty, and plans to do something about that shortly. It's been raining outside for a while, and now there's a bit of thunder, which likely means that the rest of the day will be wet too. Fi9ne by me, as it forces me to actually stay here and get some work done. But I am hoping that tomorrow or Monday or both are nice, as I want to go to Ottawa for the day one last time. I'd like to actually use my National Gallery pass enough to have made it worthwhile (one visit more will do it), and, as always, go and stand in Parliament again (I think it may actually be my favourite building in the entire country). Question Period would have been great to get to again, but I don't think that's going to happen, unless I can convince Dad that we should stop in Ottawa for the better part of a day on the way home (not bloody likely).

And, after the weekend, I have three days of work left, then Mom and Bill get here on Friday. And my life picks up speed to run past at light speed. Before I know it, I'll be holding a master's degree (!!!!), have attend my first CLA conference, and be in the truck on my way back across Ontario to home.

And, while I do hope that these last couple of weeks go by slowly enough for me to actually enjoy them, I am definitely looking forward to no longer living in Montreal.

I'm trying to get up the inclination to pack, but it just isn't happening.

Seriously... I have soo much shit to do, and I need to start getting some of it done, but I just can't get motivated.

This is stolen from a variety of people.As I was reading their answers, I kept thinking to myself that I could (quite literally) combine all their answers into a set of my own, with only a couple of additions. And even the additions weren't strictly necessary. Weird, how the people I became friends with from library school mostly have my taste in books. ;)

( well, here it goes... )