Long time, no post. And not much time now before work. However, and I'm sure most of you are watching this, but Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog is the best thing ever. It is a project Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy, Angel, Firefly, etc) cooked up during the writers strike. It starts Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie, How I Met Your Mother) as an inept, sorta sweet, super villain trying to get admitted to the Evil League of Evil. Harris has been all over broadway and is a seriously good singer/dancer. Fantastic! It also features a Buffy alum and Nathan Fillion (sp?) who was Captain Mal on Firefly. And it's a musical. It's geek girl heaven! So popular it broke the site and itunes trying to sell it (go to the site to see it for free - scroll down to the bottom).

In other news, my uncle was here last week and we did NOT get arrested by Homeland Security so that is always good.

One more week of summer programming and two more weeks of summer reading program and then I can stop going insane. But there are a ton of fun things in store for this fall.

I hiked up a mountain.

More details on these things and photos later.

Do you ever see the funny photos over at I Can Has Cheezburger? It is funny cat photos captioned in "internet speak" because obviously cats can't master proper grammar or spelling. And they really want cheeseburgers.

This one amuses me hugely, I'm not sure why this one in particular, but it does make me laugh. I keep going back to it.

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How can we tell I'm still not all here, I just signed an email with Elizabeth xxxx, Children's Library instead of Elizabeth xxxx, Children's Librarian. Oops!

I have been sick, fairly sick. I came in to work on Thursday only log enough to sit at the desk while my colleagues ran Read for the Record, and went home as quickly as possible. Friday I drug myself out of bed, tossed a baseball cap on my head, and some clothes, and dropped off some posters at a nearby school for Hooked on Books. (Walked in, placed on office counter, waved at secretary, walked out and that exhausted me.) I'm still coughing as though I were about to loose a lung. (Fortunately I found a stash of cough drops in my desk.) The fever, burning throat, achy body that I had most of the weekend was awful enough, but the cough that started last night is awful. I can't sleep, as one of my patrons pointed out I have circles under my eyes. I tend to do this, just as I think I'm getting better from a cold, I get this bone wracking cough. It sounds awful, hurts my lungs (which get sore) and keeps me from getting any sleep. The lack of sleep keeps me from getting well. Previously my doctor has prescribed cough syrup with codeine. I checked last night and the bit I had left was expired. It only expired in May. I wonder if it is still good. I didn't take it last night, instead took Nyquil. The Nyquil had no expiration date on it, but I'm not sure that's good. I need to get some sleep tonight, I'll never heal without sleep. Plus I have a huge day tomorrow (this is a very busy week, very bad time to be sick/run down). So what do you think of my options, vote in the poll, or comment below. This will probably be a multi day issue, so keep voting.

Poll #1060571 Expired Medecine
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

Should I take the prescription cough syrup that expired in May but has the wonderful codeine that lets me sleep?

Got this link in an email from psycho_hedgehog. A cute flash animation to the song by Bjorn.

Cows with Guns

I didn't end up going out with friends or to a bbq or anything for the fourth. I stayed home. My family did a lot of housework today, painting, cleaning, etc. I feel so sick. I can't believe I'm not getting better. It just isn't fair that one part of my body is declaring war on the other. I cleaned the turtle cage today.

I have been occasionally turning on the sci fi channel. They have been showing a marathon of the old Twilight Zone episodes. I love those things, those and the old Outer Limits. The new ones (of both series) are pretty good too. On Sunday nights at 11pm, three channels show those shows. One of the new ones of both and one of the old ones of Twilight Zone. I choose whichever one seems most interesting and watch it. I miss them when I don't get to do that. Other than that they are on at odd times, and I hardlyl ever catch them. I like that they are stand alone shows. I'm almost never home at the same time so any show I'm interested in I have to record to watch all of them. But I can just turn and watch a good show. All of the ones tonight have seemed to be revolving around time travel, though that is a pretty common theme. The old twilight zone had good actors (I saw one with Darren-the first one-from Bewitched), and good writing, and just awful special effects. Of course it was the sixties and they had a measely budget. To show time travel in one episode they put the camera out of focus and in focus a couple of times, to show a "special light" on the face they basically shined a flashlight on their face. I think today's entertainment forms depend too much on special effects. My dad watched a couple of episodes with me. He thinks it is funny that all these old shows he used to watch (including M*A*S*H) I just adore. Well, most of what they're making now isn't that good.

It has been storming here again. About a week ago I saw the most spectacular lightening I have ever seen, and I grew up in Kansas so that is saying quite a lot. It went across the entire sky, longer than imagination and branched into numerous other strikes. Just breathtaking. We had a doozy of a storm last night too.

I've realized that my humor is very specific. To get it you have to be in the appropriate sub cultures, not very far, but you have to be there. Here are some examples, see if you get them.

1. In response to someone saying that they couldn't find a room because of a funky numbering system There's no 19th floor, Mrs. Zarves teaches on the 19th floor, there is no Mrs. Zares
   
2. When asked how many children I had helped at work that day. As many as there are stars in the sky and grains of sand.
   
3. Someone complained about how busy we were at work Could be worse, could be raining.
   
4. When we went on vacation, my mother forgot all her underwear* I change my underwear everyday.
   

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I'll post more examples as they come.

*The thing were my mom forgot her underwear was so funny. (And I'm sure she is going to appreciate this story.) We drove to Georgia and spent the night halfway there. She came into our hotel room in the morning having told us that she had forgotten all of her underwear, including bras. We had to laugh. It was so funny. As we were driving she told us to keep an eye out for a Kohl's (a type of department store). We looked up online before we left the hotel where there were some, but we couldn't detour too far. I had to be online for a class at a certain time. We tried a couple of places looking for them. In our town Kohl's is beside Wal-mart and Best Buy, so every time we saw one of those stores, mother insisted that we get off the highway and look for the Kohl's. We finally convinced here that there is no national law that all the Kohl's must be beisdes a Best Buy and a Wal-mart, but it remained firmly in her mind that they would be there. At one point I was studying in the car and mother looked over and asked what I was doing. I smiled and just said, "enjoying my clean underwear". Yeah, we'll never tire of teasing her about that. We did eventually find a mall where she was able to procure the necessary garments.