i'm glad natalie dee agrees with me

Title: "books weigh in on the TV vs Internet debate"


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oes news

For my few OES readers, I thought you would all be interested to know that they announced the selection of their new head today, Matthew Hanly. He is leaving his head position at an independent school in Michigan and was apparently beloved by all at that school. Interestingly to me, he is involved in the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education, the organization for which David Streight is the Executive Director. He sounds like a good pick!

must be winter

I was just sitting here and I thought, hm, it kind of sounds like rain outside, someone must be washing something. Then I began to get more suspicious so I peeked out my window and lo and behold, it's actually raining. Woo hoo, my kind of weather! This basically completes my weekend which began on Thursday evening when I went to a concert at UCLA by the Roches, a folk music group. Then this morning I went to cute independent bookstore in Brentwood. Now it's raining. It's just like being in the Northwest!

appropriate, given my new job

I hope whoever left about a million books sitting on random shelves in the Chaucer section in my library finds themselves in the same predicament.

i'm not a true blue football fan, but i'm pretty good

the beginning of a great game!
Originally uploaded by kitty.pants.

So Lauren and I went to the Big Game on Saturday, the one where unranked UCLA beat No. 2 USC, their rival team, the team they haven't beaten in seven years. Of course I didn't actually see the part where they won because by that time we were speeding away in Lauren's car. You see, I have had a rather unpleasant cold since Thursday night and I didn't much feel like sticking around with a bunch of crazed fans for three hours (especially crazed since we were sitting in the student section).

But we stayed until well into the third quarter, when the score was 10-9 and then we listened to the rest of the game on the radio. The real highlight of the whole experience was getting out of the parking area. They make you park on a golf course outside of the Rose Bowl and the way they had us in there, we couldn't get out unless one car on the end moved. Amazingly, that car left about twenty minutes into us sitting around in Lauren's car, wondering how long we were going to be there. Then the only thing that stood between us and freedom was a very small space between a truck and an SUV. Thanks to Lauren's driving skills and my navigating skills, she manueuvered through that with about four inches on each side of the car. We were so excited we almost drove into a canal. No really, we almost died. But luckily we did not.