Misadventures of the Monster Librarian

Stumbled upon this today while searching for "the perfect Walt Whitman quote." So lovely. And Garrison Keillor! Who knew he had it in him... When my body and your body Lie together under a white sheet Your head on my arm Your leg thrown over my leg The whole long continent of you The pale ridgeline of your ribcage and hip and thigh Neighbor to me There is nothing that needs to be explained Or accomplished, the world is at rest and complete And though We drift apart in the eddies of the day We will find our way back To the slight hollows that mark the place Where we lie now, astonished, saying nothing. -Nude Study, by Garrison Keillor, in 77 Love Sonnets

You guys, our wedding is just under the 3 months away mark!! This past weekend we: picked out tuxedos for the guys--Vera Wang tuxes!! ChicagoBoy let me choose and they are SMOKING HOT!! ChicagoBoy finally renewed his passport--Scotland and Ireland here we come! I backed up music onto our new 1TB external hard drive to transfer to our home computer, so I can start getting the wedding music for the reception together! This week's wedding goals: Seating chart Quotes about love for the tables--each table is named after an author, so will feature a quote about love by said author Start working on wedding music

Something most libraries/librarians have been watching VERY closely. I can't believe we have to fight so hard to protect our libraries and schools in our country. Sad panda. Colleagues, I’m pleased, but with important cautions, to tell you that all of our collective work to Fight for Libraries! is poised to pay off dramatically. Key parts of the House Appropriations Subcommittee bill that is scheduled to be voted on tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 EDT were released late this afternoon. The bill does NOT cut last year’s funding to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Once final, that would mean no cuts to LSTA in this critical first vote stage! (We’ll know about Innovative Approaches to Literacy tomorrow.  Now the cautions… While unlikely, an amendment could be offered to the bill that changes the IMLS appropriation. In addition, after tomorrow’s vote, there will be at least two further procedural opportunities for the bill to be amended. After the House acts, of