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No spring break after all, only dentist appointments and hours of silent cataloging. I managed to cut the backlog in half without all the activity that normally interrupts my work day. Tossed some boxes of unwanted donations in the teacher's lounge as freebies. Starting to get a handle on the mountain of books that accumulated over the year before my arrival. Working on an Easter poster for the library. I have been thinking of using my illustration skills to make advocacy/literacy posters and graphics to try to sell to the ALA for library use. Hmm, we will see if I can manage not to make my literacy bunny too cutesy have it come out looking wise and funky. 

I have started listening to NPR at work. I would listen to audio books, but we don't have a tape player, of all things. There's something for my collection development lists. I feel very smart taping barcodes onto books while listening to people rant about social issues on the radio. I finished reading "how i live now", last year's Printz award winner, and it was wonderful. I thought about it while I was looking through the ALA conference schedule, wishing I could justify going for the weekend and attend the "so you want to be a book reviewer" lecture. I wonder if I could score free books for my library while developing a reputation as a reviewer for library journals... something to look into.

I spent some of my royalties on a really cool and enormous hand-carved mirror from Pier 1. I stood staring lovingly at it for 20 minutes before Mike said to just get it. I have a hard time buying big things for myself. I can see it hanging in our own little tin-roof shack some day. I guess I have come to terms with Hawaii, and for the first time in my life the thought of moving to the mainland makes me sad. We may have to live in a tin-roof shack for the cost of a mansion in Texas, but it comes with the weather and the misty mountains.