Holy Shineola!

I'm just not cut out for this blogging business.  It's been a month and a half since my last confession.  Let's revisit those days in incomplete, semi-chronological order...

February 3, 2009- Our library's levy fails.  We are demoralized and tired and hopeless.  Reading comments on the library articles from the Olympian online fills me with despair.  There are many hateful, ignorant, selfish buffoons in our world. 

The rest of February, 2009- I work towards moving on after the vote.  My attempts are hindered briefly with the discovery of a section of the Thurston County auditor's site that lists everyone who submitted a ballot in the election.  I scan for friends and am sorely disappointed in the amount of people who seem to have totally forgotten to send in their ballots.  I am further angered by the city council members who neglected to vote, particularly those who spoke in support of the levy at city council meetings (you know who you are, and I'm not voting for any of you).  I eventually tear myself away from this spreadsheet because it is crushing my soul.

February 14-16, 2009- I visit Spokane to see my daughter perform in the All State Choir performance.  Teenagers who love music everywhere!  Teens singing in Hawaiian!  Bands and orchestras filling the stages of the INB Performing Arts Center!  It was very cool.  I think Cleo found it fairly inspiring to be surrounded by so many kids who loved music and work collectively towards an inspiring performance.  Spokane was pretty lame, but I did enjoy a delicious dinner at a restaurant called Mizuna (along with two of the best mojito's I've ever had) and we found two really cool stores: Auntie's Bookstore and Merlyn's Fantasy, SciFi, and Games.  We played my new favorite game Skip-Bo in the hotel, and drove all over looking for coffee past 7pm.  Apparently, people in Spokane don't drink coffee like we do in our area of Washington.  Also, nobody would go in the hot tub with me.  Upon reflection, I should have just gone on my own, but I decided to pout instead.

Second half of February, 2009- Planning for the first ever Zine Librarians Unconference in March heats up.  I find myself on the planning committee, which I guess I must have volunteered myself for in another fit of volunteering for stuff by mistake, but the planning is pretty fun and keeps me distracted in a good way. 
PS- If you're in the Seattle area on March 14th, please come to our zine reading at Cafe Allegro...
PPS- we need more zine readers!  Let me know if you're interested.

ZLZ3 flyer

March 3, 2009- My dad's first birthday since he died last May.  My siblings, aunt, and family friends reach across the internet tubes to share emailed memories of my fafa, and it makes the day a little bit better.  I miss my dad every day.

Fafa

  Sorry people, this has ended up being a morbid post!  I'll try to be more upbeat on the next one.

xoxoxo-
agathafrye