Apple Fest yesterday - had a fun time, lots of chess/music/beer and conversation with friends.

And H suprised me with a 10 yr anniversary present: she got Feed & Seed to play in our basement!

Today we spent recovering/cleaning after Apple Fest - went to breakfast at the Old Town and saw Wallace & Grommit and the Wererabbit with the kids.

Missed seeing E as he was up for a conference in Redmond from L.A., but just couldn't figure out a way to get down to Lynwood to see him today. We didn't even do any grocery shopping this weekend...

School work is going steadily along - grades are 4.0 so far. I think I will apply for that N.C. fellowship afterall.

Saw Mark Ribot tonight at the Nightlight - great, inspiring show. Wot a guitar player - brought me close to tears...

Saw it with Paul after playing chess with Isaac (1-1).

Asked Paul to sell me my Ovation back, which I miss for sentimental reasons.

Another late night - went to see a Thelonious Monk tribute show - jazz quartet. Pretty good, especially the sax player.

And now to my school work.

Took the kids to see H doing improv tonight. It was fun, but makes for a very late start for my schoolwork....in fact, I only have 15 minutes of "official" school work time left for tonight!

But the kids and I enjoyed ourselves, and H was having fun on stage. And it was nice to just hang out with the fam.

I'm in the thick of it now. School work is eating up my sleeping and recreating time, but I'm getting a pretty good handle on the subjects this quarter (reference services and cataloging).

We've set up a workable schedule with the kids - after 9pm I'm no longer available. Then it's school time (from 9-11). The only other time I have for schoolwork is my lunch hour. No more chess...

What else do I have going on?

I've got to finish up a report for the usability group I'm involved in at work.
I'm working on another article with Paul - this one about information use and breakdowns during Hurricane Katrina.
Paul and I have submitted a proposal for the LOEX conference next year in Hawaii.
I'm going to the WALE conference in a couple of weeks.
Apple fest is in two weeks.
I've got to figure out how to help Windward High School with their library and maybe do an Information Literacy workshop for them.
I'm considering applying for a fellowship with UNC.
I'm still thinking about a Fulbright fellowship.
H and I are looking at Vancouver, BC much more seriously now as a place to live.

Speaking of which, we just celebrated our 10th anniversary up there over a three day weekend, which was a lot of fun. Saw a premier at VIFF, ate some great food, and slept in a lot.

Well, I guess that's enough for now. I've made this blog my home page to encourage myself to post to it more often. Hope it works!