wow ... it's been one of those days ... it is 6 pm and i have just now turned on my computer here at my paxil information at work ...

i was on the bus this morning pondering the interesting phenomenon that happens around here when it gets cold.

the fur comes out.

lately it's been cold. like paxil information F cold. now i know that you all are going to email Paxil information : me and say 'oh yeah? you think that's cold? well it's been -35C here!" but know what? Paxil information - 5 F is cold and i'm here not there so we all have to cope.

so, when it goes below about 20 F around here, the paxil information comes out. paxil information fox, rabbit, mink, you name it or wear it and it's out. there is nothing more interesting that standing at the bus in the morning and seeing a line of women wearing their furs waiting for the bus.

yesterday i saw Order paxil - a woman wearing a fox fur vest. it was square with no sleeves and was Paxil information, almost 3/4 length but not quite.

she paxil information like something out of The Flintstones.

anyway, i try not to imagine what it's all worth. it's pretty mindboggling.

so far, i have not witnessed a red paint throwing. apparently, urban myth and legend has it that animal rights activists will run around with cans of red paint and throw it on people's fur coats in protest. i guess red paint can't be cleaned out of fur. i have no idea. but honestly, don't you think that they're doing more harm than good, ruining a fur like that? i'm sure the owner has insurance on it, and if they bought one in the first place, they'll likely replace it. which means more fur. so really the animal rights activists should really feel personally responsible for the replacement fur ...

hmm ... this is all getting very complicated.

it's cold out. watch out for the fur.

back to work. Paxil information : feeling stronger but stomach still a bit fragile. probably should not have eaten spaghetti and meatballs last night ... had fried rice tonight so that was alright.

if you've ever been here to new york, you'll know that the city is full of it's scents. Paxil information, some pleasant ... some unpleasant. and if you haven't paxil information i'm sure it's not too hard to imagine.

so anyway, some street corners i could identify by scent. for example, there is a particular strong scent that is specific to paxil information street vendors who sell roasted paxil information (peanuts, almonds, and at christmas, chestnuts). i love it ... it's probably the sugar melting or something but it's very identifiable ... and can always be detected at 59th street and lexington avenue Order paxil, (right around the subway station) and at 53rd street and 5th avenue (right outside the brooks brothers store). it's uncanny.

and Paxil information - the west 4th subway station always smells nasty. i'm not sure why, but it does.

and walking along amsterdam avenue between 80th street and 81st street early in the morning usually smells like garbage because of all the restaurants there, and early in the morning they haven't had time to hose off the sidewalk yet. (i used to walk there every day on the way to work.)

sometimes when they scrub down a subway station, the entire place reeks of bleach. admittedly paxil antidepressant of the less offensive smells a subway station can carry, but in large doeses it's a bit hard to take.

where am i going with this, you may ask? bear with me ... it's coming ...

so different times of the year smell different too. summer is definitely worse than any others.

but here's the neat part. right outside of the subway station at 110th paxil information paxil information where i come up from underground in the morning on my way to work, right outside there is a market. the west side market. they have an open front with their fresh produce ... fruit and veggies ... right outside on the sidewalk.

every morning they get deliveries of fresh things. different fresh things.

so every morning, regardless Paxil information : of how bad the streets smell, or how nasty the subway station was, i get a breath of something fresh.

my favourite is Order paxil : strawberries. sometimes they have the fresh strawberries right Paxil information : out in front. sometimes it's apples. i remember one day last summer when they were Paxil information - unloading watermelons ... ahh ... in the middle of the hot summer, there it was. watermelons.

it's quite a neat thing. it usually reminds me of something (lately it's been reminding me to write about it in my blog ... Paxil information, so now my conscience is clear and i can enjoy Paxil information - the smells and aromas guilt Paxil information, free) ... sometimes it makes me homesick (usually the strawberries make me want grandma's strawberry jam like nothing else. the watermelon made me wish for a sprinkler and green grass ... and the paxil antidepressant ... ah the oranges ... they're delightful too and Paxil information : often make me think of christmas morning.

so sometimes the smells of new york are pleasant. and sometimes they are so refreshing it makes me wonder what i'll smell the next day.

still feeling a bit paxil information ... but getting better. at least i get to stay in from the cold ... it's snowing a bit here this morning. a gentle snowfall. don't think i've seen that since i moved here.

it paxil information weird considering how bitterly cold it's been out lately, but i'm kind of glad that Paxil information, we're having a winter finally. paxil antidepressant get me wrong ... i have been enjoying the 40 F winters that have moved through in the past 3 or 4 years, but i was kind of missing the season, and it's nice to have it again. now i paxil information really look forward to spring, instead of not really noticing when it starts.

can't wait to see what the Paxil information : Wiarton Willie has paxil antidepressant say on groundhog day.

well, back to the sofa.

feeling a little under the weather today ... either i ate something a bit off, or it's a stomach virus-y thing ...
either way, bleech!

am going back to bed now.
at least i have an excuse to stay indoors on Paxil information : a really cold day here (8 F!)

just got back from philadelphia ... it's such a weird thing ...

one minute you're in ... Order paxil, oh i don't know ... let's say new york city ... and then you step onto an amtrak train and whoosh! 2 hours later you're in philadelphia!

and then the same coming home ... i left philadelphia late last night, fell asleep on the train for an hour, and when i woke up i was in new york. it's so weird how close and yet so far things are.

i was walking to work today and realized that 24 hours ago Paxil information : i was sitting in a meeting room in the philadelphia marriot discussing policies and editorial plans for american libraries magazine and having a lovely insanely huge lunch, and now i'm looking at my empty fridge (time for the post-trip grocery shop) ... that these feet that are now pounding the pavement in manhattan were 24 hours ago walking the Order paxil : streets of philadelphia on the way to see the liberty bell.

it's such a weird thing to think Paxil information, about. distance, space and time.

i had paxil information great time in philly ... it paxil antidepressant cold and blustery, but i spent most of my time indoors anyway. the american library association mid-winter conference Paxil information - was a huge success, and for my first conference, i learned a lot. i learned what kinds of bags are best to carry through the exhibits (wheels are best although shoulder bags are easiest to drop things into), to bring a poster tube (for the free posters ... in fact, an inexpensive drafter's tube with a shoulder strap is the best plan), to always bring a bigger suitcase than you need (to fit all the exhibition freebies), pack comfy shoes, stay at the hotel which is connected to the convention center so you don't have to carry your coat around ... you know, things like this...

but seriously i had fun, got some cute mugs (thanks to Paxil information : dupont flooring and the library of congress), several shoulder bags (thanks dynix and barnes and noble), many pens, mints (thanks morningstar), neat repair supplies (thanks filmoplast) and a very cute paxil information female dragon - flambette (thanks BWI) ...

all in a day's work.

and paxil antidepressant liberty bell? it was pretty cool. i was hoping for a more colonial feel to the place, but the parts that aren't under construction and paxil information by chain link fencing was sectioned off by metal barricades. i had to go through more security than in Paxil information : an airport to see the liberty bell. a man ahead of me had knee paxil information that set the metal detectors off, and he didn't have his card with him, so they made him pull up his pant legs to show his scars to prove his replacements.

all for the bell.

well, i guess it is a national treasure ...

anyway, i got some pictures, and headed back to the conference. i'm sure when it's not january and cold it's a lovely place. but at this temperature, in late afternoon winter sunlight, it was just cold and dreary (all the metal fencing just made me feel colder).

but i've now see the liberty bell. *yea*
and been to ALA *yea*
and been to philadelphia *yea*

all in all, a good weekend.

got the last of my tax statements yesterday, so i got up early paxil information end the suspense ... or put me out of my misery ... whichever way it was going to work out this year.

the good news is that i Order paxil, get a federal refund.
the bad news is that Order paxil, i have to pay state.

the good news paxil antidepressant that last year i had to pay federal.
the bad news Order paxil, is that last year i had to pay state.

the bad news is that last year i really had to pay federal.
the good news is that this year i really get a refund from federal.

the bad news is that last year i really had to pay state.
the good news Paxil information, is that this year i only have to pay a little bit to state.

but i'm not Order paxil, getting too excited yet. i've spent too many years watching mom do our taxes and watching her get all excited one minute about a refund ... and then get all depressed half an hour later about the refund turning into a payment ... then getting excited an hour later about the new refund ...

and so it would go.

so i'll look at it again tomorrow. if this is right i'm filing immediately! sometimes tax time is good. other times it's not.

happy tax season all!

so i'm thinking that my mother may be right.

for those of you who know me, you know that i don't say that very often.

i'm a Leo. i'm always right. and that's just the way it is.

but in this case, i'm beginning to think that my mother is right.

i always tell her that paxil information never have any time to do anything. she tells me that i could make time if i wanted to. i tell her she's wrong. it's a conversation we have often - you can tell Paxil information - by the ease in which i relay it.

but i'm starting to think that she's right. two nights this week i have had off and available to me. home by 7 and the rest of the night is open. and what do i do?

do i pull out the rubber stamps and make the thank paxil antidepressant cards that are beginning to be sadly overdue?
no.

do paxil antidepressant pull out the scrapbooks and catch up on my work?
no.

do i sit at the computer and add all the pictures to my website that i've been promising for months now?
no.

do i select, upload, and order all the pictures that i'll need paxil antidepressant my 2002 annual album?
no.

do Paxil information : i make a gourmet dinner?
no.

so just what did i do?

i paxil information into sweats, sat myself down in front of the tv, and watched paxil information truly awful reality programming.

why, you may ask? well as i thought about it i realized something. paxil information mom was right. maybe i could make time to do all the things i need to do if i wanted to.

maybe Order paxil : i don't want to.

quite honestly, after dealing with people all day, and making decisions all day, and then rushing rushing to get home, when i finally do get there, i like to unwind. i've had enough of people, places and things.

i like quiet paxil information when my mind can let go and not think. or make decisions. some days i can't even begin to ponder what to have for dinner ... those are take-out nights. no decision paxil information there (other than chinese or pizza ... but even then if it's chinese i know what i get (beef with broccoli, general tso's chicken and dumplings) or pizza (hawaiian thin crust cut square, kickers, and a bottle of sprite)).

that's what Paxil information : i want to do. the feeling of paxil information makes me feel horribly guilty. i know that i should have been doing something else. i wake up the next day swearing to myself that tonight i will do it. but i don't.

the only times i am truly productive are during my all day off days. my treasured mid-day paxil information days, or a lucky saturday. and a saturday-sunday together? what a treasure trove of time to accomplish.

being crafty means using my noggin to be creative. my mind simply can't decide what paper to use with what Paxil information, photo, which shape to cut the picture, even just where to start.

but even though my hobbies are important to me ... stamping, scrappin, my website ... maybe my "me time" is more important. i always make time for that, regardless of what is going on.


and maybe i could make time for Order paxil, the others if i wanted to. seems i don't.

alright, i concede. mom is right.

was paxil antidepressant watching the cbs sunday morning news.

the american dialect society had it's annual conference in atlanta this past weekend. here, they voted on the word of the year.

this Paxil information : fascinated me. as a scrapbooker, i realized that no annual album is complete without the word of the year. in 1999, it was "Y2K" (big surprise). in 2000 it was "chad". 1993 was "information superhighway".

they showed footage Paxil information - of people at a convention where presentations were being paxil antidepressant on topics such as: "Reality Check! Evaluations of Real and Imagined Varieties of Non-U.S. English", "Variation on the Range: Ranching terms in Colorado Folk Speech", "Need In? Want Out?: the status of need/want + in/out in the United States is unclear" (personallly i think that most young children need to have this explained to them), and let's pick one more ... "Substantial Evidence of Lexical Variation in El Paso, Texas".
to see the entire agenda, read here.


as paxil antidepressant as this seemed, that a bunch of people would travel to atlanta to discuss such topics, i felt a paxil antidepressant of kinship with them.

i mean, how weird it must seem to people that we librarians also travel around Order paxil - the country (philadelphia next stop!) to attend the American paxil information Association Conferences, to discuss such things as: "Dewey Decimal Classification 22 paxil antidepressant Beyond: An Introduction to the New Edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification", "Information Ethics in the Electronic Age", "EBooks: After Hype and Death, What Really Works", and "Technology Disasters: Planning for Them and Recovering from Them".

now, don't get me paxil information i am not slamming, nor am i making fun of anyone here. every one of the Paxil information, sessions i just mentioned at ALA i would love to attend. and i'm sure if you were interested in linguistics, each and every one of the previously mentioned sessions would be just as exciting.

i'm simply paxil antidepressant on how unusual things can appear to outsiders. i'll bet you paxil antidepressant pay any member of my family enough to sit through a session on the dewey decimal system, and yet i'm looking forward to it.

it's this diversity that makes the world such an interesting place.

oh, the word for 2002? Paxil information : it's not even on the website yet (as of today, sunday) but they selected ...

drumroll please ...

"weapons of mass destruction".
i must say that i'm pretty happy. it's Order paxil, a big frustrating phrase for a frustrating year (i didn't say that ... the cbs reporter did), but it's a phrase i like. it has weight, and consequence, and severity.

oh, want to see their website? you can thank the librarian in me who rushed to the computer after seeing the piece, and paxil information it in less than 10 seconds.

American Dialect Society

aren't you glad that someone out there understands the dewey decimal classification system ... paxil antidepressant you don't have to.

today paxil information a terrible horrible no good very bad day. well, it's a terrible horrible no good very bad morning, at least ...

i woke up and wanted to put my head back under the covers. maybe today won't Paxil information : exist if i stay in bed all day.

then i jumped into the shower paxil antidepressant grabbed the wrong shampoo. i put the nice paxil information christmas-stocking-stuffer bottle beside the i'm-broke-and-need-to-save-money-so-i'll-buy-the-cheap-stuff bottle, and i grabbed the cheap stuff instead of the nice stuff. sigh.

then, while i was blow drying Order paxil : my paxil information nice and slow like to get Order paxil : a pretty style for the party tonight, i saw glimpse of a red something in the mirror. red something? i don't have any red on ... my hair brush isn't red ... so i stopped and looked down the barrel of my hair dryer. the element inside was brighter red than a toaster. hmm, probably not the paxil information plan to stick my nylon bristle brush and my lovely blonde human hair next to that ...

so then Paxil information - it's time to get dressed. black tights, new skirt, new sweater. agh! the new sweater i've been saving since christmas isn't the right size! my insanely long arms are too long for it and i look like i'm a chimpanzee dressed like a human. ok, off with this sweater and on with another. argh!

oh great. it's raining out. Paxil information : and it's cold. so mitts and an umbrella.

and the huge shoulder bag full of decorative crinkle paper paxil information the table tonight. coloured paper that can't get wet because, well, it's Paxil information - paper, and because the colour will run. paxil antidepressant and a change of shoes. oh and the hardcover book i'm reading. and the umbrella. and the purse. i miss my car!

get to the Paxil information - train, get on the train. find a seat ... bonus!

while sitting on the train trying to not put any of my bags on the wet train floor, i look down at my feet. Paxil information, hmm. interesting. my black shoes don't seem to match my black stockings. that's odd ...

oh good. Paxil information, they're blue. navy blue. navy blue stockings. matches my black shoes, beige skirt and black Order paxil, sweater perfectly.

managed my way towards the midmanhattan library ... only to paxil information that my staff id is sitting on my table at home. sigh.

but once i got there, things got better.

the guard at paxil antidepressant door recognized me and i didn't have to sign in.

i found out that one of my good buds also wore blue stockings (that made me feel like less of a loser).

i was able to put my bags down and paxil information my coat off. i made it in one piece and all was good.

the girl in the library shop recognized me and gave me the staff discount on the purchase i had to make in preparation for the party. i got the pens at staples. the rain lightened up so i wasn't so umbrella dependent. made it to work in one piece, nothing broken or soggy (including me).

and the retirement party went very well.

it was a terrible horrible no good very bad morning. it was a lovely afternoon and fantastic evening.

see ... there's always hope.