Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Yesterday I went to Lakewood Public Library (number one in the country, baby) to work on the research project I have due tomorrow for my class (hey there EDU512, I can see the light at the end of your terrible tunnel).
It was a very successful trip for several exciting reasons. Let me list a few of them for you now.
1. I got a ridiculous amount of work done in a very short about of time. I felt all Hermione Granger up in the library being all crazy smart. I'm sorry, that's a very nerdy and uncool reference to make, but I was just watching part of the 3rd Harry Potter movie the other day.
2. Children come to the library and this really made me happy. Now, I realize that they're probably just latchkey kids using the library's computers to look at myspace or something, but in my happy little world, I saw a glimmer of hope.
3. Crazies are always entertaining, and Lakewood's finest had turned out to keep me amused yesterday. There were your usual crazies; an older man fighting with the librarian about something, a woman practically screaming into her cell phone in the "quiet" section of the library, little kids with backpacks and no parents running around like they were in gym class... but there was one lady in particular who has now raised the bar for local crazies, at least in my mind. She came off the elevator (which I was sitting fairly close to) talking with very few pauses. She was older and fairly frazzled looking. Her arms were burdened by several plastic shopping bags as well as one of the library's newspapers, the ones secured on a long wooden dowel. I didn't think much of her narration at first, I just rolled my eyes to myself a little and thought about how rude it was that people just walk around the library talking so loudly on their cell phones. After she made a few more passes then then decided to sit at the table right next to mine, I finally noticed that among the things she was carrying, a cell phone was not present. Giving her the benefit of the doubt, I glanced her way hoping to see a bluetooth light flashing in her ear but as I'm sure you can guess, there was none. Now, I've run into crazies that babble before, but this woman's narration was amazing. I wish I'd taken a break from my paper typing to record a few of the gems she had, but I was on a mission to get this stuff done so I neglected to get many of the highlights. They were just out of control and made me think that this woman was going to freak out at any second and attack ("well, you may as well just walk up those stairs and kill yourself then") so I discretely packed up my things shortly after she got there and headed home but not before absorbing a little of the greatness that is the patrons of the public library.
4. The library has wifi but they also block certain programs from running on your computer. Now, while this sadly made it hard for me to navigate the databases I was using for my projects, it also didn't allow AIM to work. Normally this would be a bad thing, but yesterday it really helped to contribute to my getting ridiculous amounts of work done.
Alright, so thost were really the highlights, but considering I was only there for about an hour and a half, it's pretty impressive.

Totally unrelated (although some of the people enrolled there are crazies, but in a much happier and fun to be around way), this past Saturday I went to be a model at Aveda for my friend, Britt.
It wound up being a spa day for Amy with tons of primping and pampering. Here's another (slightly more abbreviated and list-like) list of the exciting things I had done:
1. scalp massage
2. hair washed twice and conditioned
3. facial and hot compress
4. hand and arm massage
5. haircut
6. hair styled
7. make-up application
By the end of the day (I was there for over 4 hours of pampering and tea-drinking) I was feeling pretty amazing. This is maybe something I could get hooked on.
Anyone who wants to practice massage, I'm available.
Yowza.

I feel like I never end these things well, but duty calls and it's time for me to get up, pretend I'm an adult, and go to work. (Luckily it's only a half day!)

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