i got tagged (X2)

so, i am supposed to post 8 things about myself, and since i was tagged twice, i will list 16 things:
1. my hair has been blue, green, purple, and fire engine red (not all at the same time)
2. i saw my the daughter my best friend had given up for adoption out in public (and i had only seen a handful of pictures of her)
3. i have a b.a. in visual arts (with an emphasis in photography)
4. i don't like to type capitol leters
5. i am the bass player in a band called "type53"
6. i was in a comedy improv group for a year and a half
7. my grandmother is teaching me how to use her sewing machine
8. i put bertie botts every flavor beans in rich's candy jar
9. i sometimes talk like a pirate
10. i've never read war & peace
11. i worked for the radio station at umbc when i was in college
12. i interviewed the following bands: the violent femmes, the dead milkmen, cracker
& blind melon
13. i really like the band flogging molly
14. there are 2 apple trees in my back yard
15. i am a packrat
16. i refuse to tag anybody else

freak #3; ranting #5

Break Glass in Emergency
Originally uploaded by kyber

so, it would be a very bad idea to design a library like this.
remember the old saying: "those who live in stone houses should not throw glasses" um, scratch that and reverse the stones and glasses. that's better.

freak #1; rantings 1 & 2

if it's never to late or too soon to learn things, then right now is the perfect time...no...now....

7.5 things:

1- set goals. i am excellent at setting goal. it's just that i don't exactly keep them. trust me, you don't want to see all the half finished projects that i have.
2-accept responsibility for you're own learning. do i have to? just kidding.
3- view problems as challenges. i like challenges. i like to come up with creative solutions.
4- have confidence in youself as a competent and effective learner. i'm learning how. being part of an improv group helped a lot.
5- create your own learning tool box. this is hard. i flunked industrial arts class. oh, not a literal tool box, a figurative tool box.
6- use technology to your advantage. every day.
7- tech/mentor others. very good idea.
7.5- play! this one i am the best at!

so, now it's time to learn.....no....wait.....NOW

the 3 author challenge

The challenge: take at least 3 authors who names string together to create one new "super author" and combine parts of title from the authors to create a new book.

The Gift of the Portrait of a Dubliner by O. Henry James Joyce

The Smoke Jumper Blackboard Jungle in Las Vegas by Nicholas Evans Hunter S. Thompson

putting names to things

doubleners - the people who want their books checked out and renewed at the same time. Here are some ways in which they ask for this: Can I have these for the longer period of time? Can you double renew these? Can I have the, um, you know, uh, these, um, for the more time?

instamatics -people who put their books in the book drop and then come in and are confused about why the books are not off their record yet.

touch-downers-people who place their library card on the counter even though you had put your hand out to take their card.

stop, drop, & runners -people who put their return books in the return slot at the counter even though someone is standing right there

____________-people who hold their library cards in their mouth and then hand it to you when it's their turn to have their items checked out.

____________-people who ask for you to renew their book after you have cleared it from their record.

___________- people who start talking to someone on a cell phone right in the middle of waited on at the check out counter or information desk.

___________-people who say "I just have 50 more pages to print, I'll be done in a sec."

confusedcius-people who ask "Why are the lights off? Are you closing? Since when does the library close so early?

_____________-guys who pull their library card out from somewhere inside their sweatpants.

(this is what I have so far, still trying to think up names for the ones that I left blank, suggestions welcom.)