.open up your plans and damn you're free.

I'm posting another entry about nothing, but I am posting two in one week. A woman I work with - another shelver - told me this week (after asking how my writing is going and hearing my reply that it's just "ok, not great"), "at least you're writing. Some people can't even do that." Simple as it is, it's just so true. I may not always produce something with a point or that is particularly brilliant, but I do write...and constantly, too. I write long, long emails to people and jot down ideas and thoughts almost daily now. Once I am back on meds (yes, that will be soon...probably, anyway), Kathy thinks I should keep a log of any changes I feel - so that's another thing that I can use my journal (or rather, my "everything book" as it has become more of a place for everything: to do lists, fragments, recipes, quotes and other things to remember, ideas, etc.) for. I'd keep a second one especially for that, but that's just too much for me to carry around or remember to use.

Anyway, I just wanted to save and share some recently found checkout receipts from the library.

I really like this one, just because we have similar literary tastes:

Title: Survivor: a novel/by Chuck Palahniuk
Due Date: 11-27-07

Title: Invisible Monsters/by Chuck Palahniuk
Due Date: 11-27-07

Title: Haunted: a novel of short stories/by Chuck Palahniuk
Due Date: 11-27-07

Title: Save Me The Waltz/by Zelda Fitzgerald
Due Date: 11-27-07

Title: The Haunting of Hill House/by Shirley Jackson
Due Date: 11-27-07

Title: Just An Ordinary Day/by Shirley Jackson
Due Date: 11-27-07


Since I am putting them in order of dates, the next one is from earlier this year. I have no idea why some receipts tell you the author or creator of an item and others don't.

Title: Masquerade: a Blue Bloods novel
Due Date: 03-30-09

Title: Love, Ghosts & Facial Hair
Due Date: 03-30-09

Title: Forever
Due Date: 03-30-09

(I wonder if that's the Judy Blume book. I'm sure there are half a dozen books called Forever, though.)

Title: Head Games
Due Date: 03-30-09

Title: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Due Date: 03-30-09

Title: The Devouring
Due Date: 03-30-09

Finally, we have a receipt from this month. I found it on the shelf in the mystery section.

Title: On the Prowl: tales of an urban werewolf / Karen MacInen
Due Date: 5-20-09

Title:A Body To Die For / G.A McKevett
Due Date: 5-20-09

Title: The Columbian Exchange: biological & cultural consequences
(it actually cuts off at “consequ”)
Due Date: 5-27-09

Title: Dirge for a Dorset Druid: a Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower mystery
(another one that cut off but I finished it by looking it up on the SPL catalog)
Due Date: 5-27-09

Title: Running Hot / Jayne Ann Krentz
Due Date: 5-20-09

Title: The Chicago River: a history in photographs
Due Date: 5-27-09

Title: Crucified / Michael Slade
Due Date: 5-20-09

Title: Headless Body in Topless Bar: the best headline from America's favorite newspaper
(it cut off at “from Am” but I looked it up, too)
Due Date: 5-20-09


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I am just being random right now. It's a lovely day, but hot. Still, maybe once I manage to get everything I need to get done indoors out of the way (a couple of phone calls and updating my mp3 player playlists for work tonight - which isn't a big deal, but it's something I want to do) I will go for a walk or sit outside and write a little.

This weekend my plan is to not overdo things. I have clean clothes, I will try not to sit around the house and grimace over how dusty and disorganized things are and I will go to the park and people-watch, do some journaling. Perhaps I will do some reading out on the deck, out in the sun. I have a hair appointment on Saturday to finally get it cut - it's time for a change.

One of these days I'll get around to writing a little more about what I have been up to lately (it's a lot...so much that I want to schedule myself free time the way my friend, Ammie does). For now, I'll just end this here and go get be productive elsewhere.