Test 1, 2, 3.

To my fannish_library_fest posts:

Fannish Bindings for a Fannish Library

A Lyrical Ode to Libraries
And I've got two more to add: White Blank Page by Mumford & Sons and Do It Anyway by Ben Folds Five ("sometimes you'll like the cover and that's precisely why you'll love the book").

[Almost] forgot the ficlet.

And because I was sewing some with embroidery floss, I have decided that endbands are like friendship bracelets for books.

Time for a nap.

Why is it that when I read fiction about a topic I'm interested in, I could read for days, but when I try to read non-fiction about a topic I'm interested in, I read for five minutes until... Bored Now: Kitty! And then I drag myself back and read some more until Bored Now: Internets! And it's not for lack of interest. I mean, the whole reason I took "Topics in American Book History" was wanting it to be about the structural and manufacturing processes of book production, but while there were hints of it throughout the course, the majority of it was cultural analysis of what does it all meeeeeeeeeaaaaaan? So, for my "Formal Essay" final writing project whatchamawhosit, I decided to do a research paper on the stuff I wanted from the course, so that I would actually get the information. And it is interesting! Like the switch from leather to cloth and casing-in versus binding on boards and changing it so that instead of one person binding the book start to finish, it's all assembly line tasks, so that they could hire less skilled workers on the cheap and eventually replace them with machines (who will eventually rise up and take over the earth!).
So here I am all, "I want to know this!" and my brain is just like, "Nope, naptime!"

I've probably actually gone this long without posting before, but not without reading stuffs, but I'm all caught up now, mostly via cheating and unsubscribing from a bunch of communities and people that I only read for TV commentary/fanfic, but since I barely have time to watch the shows themselves anymore let alone ponder/squee/snark about them afterwards... All my free time has been sucked up by the Graduate Student Vacuum. But before that happened I watched every single episode of the A-Team. Um. Go me?

so, after all the horror and the trauma and the nighmarish stress, guess what i got on my a.i. project. a 10/10. that's right, one hundred percent. how much do i rock? quite a bit. and according to the class statistics, only one person got a 10/10, and who could that be? why that would be me. suck it computer science majors, cuz the little linguistics girl kicked all your asses. can i get a hell yeah?