another good day

Except for the interwebz eating my brain. Actually, it's kind of sad. We had to put kitters to sleep. If it had just been her thyroid we would have kept paying for the drugs, but she had an eye infection that was going to cause her to lose the eye and the vet found lumps that she was pretty sure were cancerous. I hope that if I am ever in a terminal situation that someone does for me what we do for the four legged members of our family.

I remember coming home from Worldcon in San Francisco in 1993 and finding this little white kitten that Lee brought home. Pure white Siamese mix, she had blue eyes and just slightly ivory colored points. Lee was 15 at the time and all attitude; kitters imprinted on that and for years she was a sweet, friendly loving alien face hugger. She'd purr and then latch on to whatever tender flesh was closest. She lost that as she got older...she suffered from arthritis and if you touched a sore spot she would snap at you, but mostly she just cuddled and purred.

May Bast bless her and may she cross the Rainbow Bridge to play again with Patience and Sara, Bear and Harry.

I'm working on alphabetizing my books. It was Kathi's idea...she figured it wouldn't be too hard. My library fills 25 book cases of various sizes, and that is AFTER we took the Heinlein, Robinson and King plus 16 feet of non-fiction upstairs. I'm working on the B's now. Brin, Baxter, Bear (both Greg and Elizabeth), Bradley, Bradbury, Bujold, Baudino. We mustn't forget Barnes, Brown (Rita Mae), Brunner, Bradford (Barbara Taylor), etc. Since I have to go out of town tomorrow to visit Minnie B. (my MIL) and we are probably going up to Michigan City on Saturday, we may not get done.

I must confess: I am a Twitter addict. Never got into IRC but twitter is like a private chatroom where I can sit in my corner and listen to fascinating conversation, immediately follow links to things that interest me and occasionally contribute something of interest myself. Twitter is both an aggregator like Google Reader and a social site where I can become acquainted with a variety of folks that I would have never met except for the net.

I can also use Twitter for "professional development" because there are lots of librarians who tweet. It's a quick way to share resources.

There are so many things I am interested in, and each new topic leads down another path. Topics I want to continue exploring in 2010:
1. Reading and reviewing books (both print and ebooks). NetGalley got me interested in this, as did all of the DIY author/publishers. Until just recently I haven't written a book review in decades, but it will make me think about what I am reading.
2. Zen paganism. Trying to meditate. Trying to "Be Here Now." Living in harmony with the earth and treading lightly.
3. Writing and blogging. I have 3 blogs that I neglect shamefully; journey of a kitten, circulating zen and the Womyn Making Waves blog for weft. I also neglect my regular journal. I write all the time. It's just not very directed or useful writing.

I could go on, because there are a hundred things I want to do. I know I won't do them and that will make me feel bad. So I will limit myself to the three listed, for awhile at least.