When they have eyes for me, it's like Heaven. - Ginsberg

There is another celestially-relevant quote from the Beats; Gregory Corso said "I'd reached Heaven and it was syrupy. It was oppressively sweet." I imagine he is correct and Nietzsche said “In heaven all the interesting people are missing” which basically cements my preference, should I indeed find there is an afterlife. Hell, however, may be found in Staff Day for the LVCCLD. All of the library district’s employees are dragged to a casino and forced to endure hours of monotonous and inane lecturing from a series of irrelevant speakers. The one bright spot in the day was a futurist speaker who discussed innovations in the Internet and other devices, like the Pleo Dinosaur and iGoogle. I am now completely obsessed with creating a perfect iGoogle page which includes a daily literary quote, CNN.com, weather, moon phases, art of the day, NY Times crossword, MapQuest directions, mini-Amazon, an iTunes feed, movie times for my zip code, my email inbox and a translation box. And all of that is just on the home page, I have separate news and art pages. Then there is, of course, the background choices, including artists like Agatha Ruiz de la Prada. I am completely enamored with iGoogle. I was for so very long avoiding all sorts of technology with a fanatical passion but taking this class has flung me forward into exploring all types of Internet applications. I didn’t have a cell phone until 2004. I still don’t have television and probably never will. The combination of the class and the speaker at Staff Day has ignited my enthusiasm for Web exploration and constructing things to my taste.

No television does not equal no movies though. I watched “Desk Set” last night and fell absolutely in love with Hepburn’s brilliant reference librarian, Bunny. The scene on the roof where Spencer Tracey’s character interviews her is priceless and an excellent example of the incredible value of a librarian’s brain. “Party Girl” is another favorite librarian movie and Parker Posey makes an incredible conversion to the marvels of cataloging in an absolutely charming series of events. I watched the “Librarian” parts 1 & 2 with Noah Wyle but was not all that impressed. Any suggestions for good library movies? Post a comment.

I spent my day off yesterday removing every book on my shelves, dusting the shelves, and reorganizing the books in a new order. My arranging is similar to the LC categories but I have yet to actually generate Cutter numbers for them. There may come a point when that happens, perhaps after I graduate and have more free time. Alarming, really.

“The wild nerves of your poems will translate straight into my tongue” – D.M. Thomas