Sorry I haven't blogged...

I took a couple of days to crash after work and try to get my bearings again. Haven't been quite so down in awhile. It's like everything I've done for the last six months unravelled--how I felt about work, friends, finances, emotions, healing, feeling part of the world, oh, everything.

It's kind of weird to be feeling pretty good considering it's rained for 28 hours straight (which usually depresses me), there's yet another sniper attack in the news, our government is in the process of getting us into what I believe is a very ill-considered war which will make the world quite messy should it happen, a woman here in Lexington was killed this afternoon when a city bus ran into her, another was killed by a car, another accident killed two a couple of blocks from my house, a guy in the UK area was found bludgeoned to death, one of our local hospitals (UK) is talking layoffs due to the oeconomy (I have several friends who work there), and the CSI episode tonight was actually the first to gross me out (hey, it took two high school students getting high on PCP, attacking a cheerleader, and eating her intestines to do it. Actually it took sifting through the stomach contents to do it--but I did keep watching). Maybe Zabet is right: I do thrive on horrific stuff. I think it's because it reminds me that I'm alive, that I need to take that life and live it, and that as bad as I sometimes feel it is, things can ALWAYS be worse.

On the positive side, our family resource centre has a couch, lights, carpet, etc., etc. I have about fifty of the books catalogued, and hope to have the rest finished by next week. For someone who specialised in cataloguing, I find that it's actually rather tedious when you're doing everything from the computer record to the book pockets and labels. And somehow, cataloguing is just more fun in a MARC record. [That's the standard file format with each part of the record labeled with numbers and letters so that it can be easily transferred between institutions.] I'm not using MARC format--it's such a small collection that a simpler system works fine. I decided to classify the books by Dewey. I did that because I thought parents would be more familiar with Dewey from public libraries, if at all. Hee hee. Now that means I regularly classify by National Library of Medicine, Library of Congress, and Dewey systems. I guess it's better for the resume, anyway. Now I just have to finish putting away some children's books on a table, finish the cataloguing, and they need to set up the computer, TV, and VCR, and we are in business. :) Still, I'm glad tomorrow's Friday--oh, wait, it is Friday. Too bad the Friday Five isn't up yet.