ups and downs

in honour of new york kristen, us toronto gals (and a few honourable boy mentions: ian and eddy) headed out to a night club downtown last night. fueled by a rather disgusting mix of johnnie walker (red label), wine, and mixed drinks, we danced it up. stefanie (and certainly not me) actually danced on top of the bar. the establishment was considerate enough to install a horizontal bar along the ceiling so that poor intoxicated women could dance their hearts out without falling off. while tasha was amusing herself with a lawyer, his friend challenged me to a chugging contest. this was a bad move on his part and this is why: i am a world class (and i definitly mean to use the word class) chugging machine. international competition winner. the poor guy ended up puking in the bathroom and getting kicked out of the bar. 1-2-3 winner! we had a good time, but there were some notable missing people: annetta, tamara, diana...ladies? you are going to have to pull your socks up and put on a show next time we venture out. which will be sometime next month. mark your calendars. (there is no way i can handle that can kind of thing any more than that) a night out is fun and all...don't get me wrong. there is nothing that bonds people more than making fools out of ourselves. but, right now, there is nothing that i want more right now than some quality home time with take out, downloaded tv shows, and jarrod.

sofie and i went out for breakfast this morning, and of course, because she is one of the best people with which to discuss such things, we spoke about our lives and our relationships. and that last point in the above paragraph (the one with tv) is one that i am really learning about. there was a time when i was out and about both weekend nights and perhaps even a day or two during the week (i am thinking of one particularily bad summer). but, when it comes right down to it, most of the time, i was looking for that one person who i could just sit at home with. a person who makes me laugh and smile and whose company i simply enjoy. having that in my life now is something that i truly value. but i still that going out every once in a while, helps put everything in perspective and helps me realize that while i like going out and having a good time, . i love going out with friends, seeing them in often hilarious situations, i also love relaxing at home. and as i get older, i no longer feel the pressure to be such a social butterfly. i am more content just being myself, and i like that self to spend at least fifty percent of her time in pj's.

out of a seventeen hour weekend work schedule, i have about five hours to go. i am pretty impressed with myself. working and all. earning the bread and butter to support my family. you know how it is, nose to the grind. i've been doing some work with collection development. basically, you look through publisher's magazines and serials and take note of any new publications in the information field. if the library doesn't already have the book, you take note of it and then the collection development librarian can order it. okay, this seems like the stupidest boringest job in the history of libraries. there is no reason that each library should be doing this. it should be a) outsourced or b) centralized at U of T. in the first option, a company could do all the searching and prep work for you and release a list of new titles. even more, your library could fill out detailed buying forms and when a book meets the criteria, it could be sent to you. if they want to keep collection development at home, the system could merged from each separate library completing their own development to one group which would be responsible for the whole university. as it stands now, each of the fifty libraries on the U of T campus are wasting valuable time. if there was communication (any kind at all) between the libraries, they could all save time. it may very well be that there are systems like this available somewhere in the library world. i would love to know about them if there were. and then i would like to sell one to the Inforum.