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A recreation of a Christmas card fic (to the best of my recollection, since I didn't keep a copy of the original, having written it on a piece of scrap paper which has long since been recycled) posted at lbilover's suggestion.




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It is the end of the world as we know it. Our director has decided to close early (at 4:00) due to the increasingly crappy conditions.
I must be hallucinating. Or in an alternate universe.

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to dear lbilover who enriches us all with her marvelous fics and pics and creativity and sheer genius-ness. May you have a year filled with F/S and S/E goodness and empty of orc-ish neighbors and all other woes. (((((hugs)))))

My sister is going for surgery later today. She fell off a chair last month and, in avoiding the cat who came to watch, managed to fracture her spine. She's having five vertebrae fused, followed by a brace and lots of physical therapy. (She says the brace is like being in storm trooper armor). Any positive thoughts or good vibes that you happen to have to spare would be appreciated.

I was walking to work this morning and I her a voice going "Hi, librarian." I look around and see some guy that I've never seen before (to the best of my recollection) and he stars walking behind me and talking to me. Just general conversation stuff, and he asked me how long I've been at the library, and I tell him 27 years (as of Tuesday) and he gives me some line about how I must have started right out of high school and I said no. Then somebody driving by called out to him and I went on alone. But it made me think-- I've been working here over half of my life. A sobering thought, that.
And now for the continuing saga of our children's room...
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Okay, so it's not as high in the frabjousness scale as paying off the mortgage, but I'll take my feelings of achievement wherever I can scrounge them--they've been few and far between this year. Anyhow, I have finally bestirred myelf and gotten internet access at home. yay!!

My friend E and I went to our first s-f con of the year this past weekend (second overall if you count the Romantic Times Booklover's Convention last month, but that's much more a working event for authors to do publicity and aspiring authors to hook up with agents, editors, etc. Booksellers and librarians are definitely favored guests here--we have special tracks of programming and get many extra goodies...I came home with over 100 free books (not that all of them are anything that I want to read, but I'm sure that I'll find some keepers in there). Had a lovely time sleeping in and filking and shopping in the Dealer's Room and the Art Show. I actually bought a couple of hobbity prints--one of a lane with a sign post with the distances to Waymeet, Tuckborough, Bywater, and Hobbiton and the other a close-up of Bag End's front door knob reflecting the path leading up to the door and part of the yard. Now I just have to find places to hang them. They're much too good to join all my other prints under the spare bed. You can see them at the artist's website--www.jekaufmann.com --Reflections of the Shire and There and back again under "fantasy prints." (someday I'll learn how to link to things). I may have to get the one called The study as well.

Happy birthday to [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]! May your day (and year) be filled with Sean/Elijah goodness!

An e-mail from my sister:

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And 4-6 inches, my butt! We've got at least a foot (which I know is nothing compared to the east coast, but still...) They hadn't plowed my street, so I got stuck multiple times. It took almost half an hour for two neighbors pushing and shoveling to help me get back into the driveway. The director had to come and pick me up to get me to work. And in the process, something must have gotten scraped because the neighbor said that I was leaking anti-freeze. Grrrrr. I should send the director the bill.

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OK, so obviously I read a lot *g* But cataloging books, etc. for a living probably doesn't hurt, either.