lilac season!

Here is my first bunch of lilacs for the season. One of our bushes is just starting to come out and the other is slightly behind. I love when they bloom, it smells so good...

blog de chop

Mattie is blogging! Visit him here.

new office, take 2

I've moved again... sigh. I do like my new office a lot. It's cozy and has nice high ceilings which you can't tell from the photos. Our library was built in the 50s ( I think, I should probably know that being a librarian) and has lots of blonde wood and industrial-looking-ness as you might imagine. I have lovely harvest gold panels behind my computer!

You can't tell from the picture, but I still have the Librarian Action Figure duking it out with Emperor Palpatine in front of my monitor. Nancy Pearl armed with a light saber is a pretty fearsome sight.

Hopefully one of these days I will settle in somewhere and stay put for a while! I'm beginning to feel like a bit of a nomad... or a hobo as Amy would call it.

     

twins

I was wondering why my door clicker wasn't working today, then I realized those weren't my flowers in the bud vase. :-)

farewell to the business library

Today was my last day at Business. Peng had his camera out (of course!) and switched roles from librarian to paparazzo for the afternoon. You can see about 20% of all the photos he took here at the Flickr site he set up. This photo is Peng, Nancy (my boss), and me.

I am now firmly installed back in the Main Library and have just finished setting up my new office. It has nice high ceilings. I will get some photos up as soon as I get around to taking some. I've been trying to keep my morale up and be excited about starting yet another new job but it's not easy. I am trying to focus on the good points - I am really going to like the kind of work I'll be doing, I like being back with my buddies here at Main, etc. I submitted my THIRD resume today. Third time's a charm... hopefully? We shall see.

the more you eat...

Whose idea was it to take all the fun out of eating beans? This story could be good news to some, however, whose flatulent husbands/ fathers/ boyfriends/ brothers shall remain nameless. :-)

yet MORE destruction!

Seems to be a bit of a destruction/demolition theme here... I just watched online as the old Jamestown Bridge got blown up. You can watch the video here. I think Justin's love of watching things explode in movies is rubbing off on me, or maybe I've just watched Mythbusters too much. Or it's just my morbid disaster fascination kicking in... Anyhow it is cool. It was a pretty scary bridge to drive over so it's a little creepy seeing it fall down, but worth the watch. If I'm not mistaken, this bridge's center section had a grate for a roadway.... the kind that makes that awful noise as you are driving over it, and you could look down and see the water underneath you. It was either this bridge or the Newport bridge (on the other side of the island) that I'm thinking of... Oh, the bridge is on the way to Newport, RI by the way, for all you non-easterners. :-) (Photo and story from the Boston Globe website.)

rest of demolition photos...

sorry, forgot to mention that they are here at my Flickr site.

april

I didn't quite capture the sun comming through the blooms on this tree outside my building this morning. Even though it's just shy of 40 degrees this morning, spring is still on its way. These are the times I'm glad I don't live in Texas... sorry Wrights! :-)

Happy belated Easter to everyone as well. It was nice to celebrate this year and great to have a lot of visitors in church. If they would only come back... We have some boys that come over and play basketball in our parking lot all the time, and I was really happy to see them with their mom in church last Sunday. I have struggled a lot with keeping a good attitude about these kids since my headlight cover was "mysteriously" shattered last year while I was parked near to the basketball hoop. They also like to yell at Chelsea. Usually I don't have a problem seeing ministry potential in kids but for some reason my attitude has not been good about these boys. I'm trying. Seeing them in church helped me be thankful that they feel comfortable coming over to play ball.

All else is good here. We're going to Holland this weekend to see Julie and company, and Justin is guest preaching. I'm supposed to sing something like a good preachawife should but I don't know what that's going to be yet. Good thing I enjoy that "sangin' and playin' pianna" or else I might not be forgiven for shaking the neighborhood with the bass in in my punch buggy in a decidedly un-preachawife-like manner! :-)

coming down

The GM plant that has always been at the intersection of MLK and the river here in Lansing is being demolished. I had a kind of compulsion to go see it, so Justin indulged me and we walked up over the bridge and took some photos. I'm not sure why I had to see it - I think it has to do with the exhiliration of something so ugly finally being torn down. They are recycling the materials from the building, and it was cool to see the separated piles of iron, steel, brick, concrete... the building reduced to its elements.


We saw a guy and his family on the bridge who said that he had worked there for a long time, and had to come see it. It reminded me how glad I was that I work for a Kingdom that is not of this world... that will never fail.

savings schmavings

Right now I'm downing coffee and trying to shake the daylight savings funk. It's such a strange phenomenon... I was so exhilarated when I got out of work at 9 last night and could still see a glow in the west... this morning the only thing glowing was the burner heating up water for my extra-strong coffee! Spring really is coming, really...