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Librarian, married, 2 cats. I collect hobbies: reading, piano, writing, baking, gardening, crafting, gaming, dabbling.
I got a nutribullet and was really enjoying smoothies (fruit + milk + misc) for breakfast during my commute, but it's way too cold for that now, haha.
Burke's Peerage is load bearing in our house - it's helping prop up the TV stand.
Nothing like shifting the periodicals collection to validate the efficacy of one's weightlifting routine.

If you’re a librarian who thinks everyone can hear you so you don’t need the mic, you’re wrong and when you feel embarrassed that people yell at you, that’s what you get for not caring about other people I’m sorry. 🤷🏻‍♀️  

It’s 2025. How do you not know people having hearing issues or that people behind you won’t hear as well as people in front of you.

Death halted.

THERE WAS ONE, TEN YEARS AGO. HE TAUGHT ME A LOT ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN

"To be where the rising ape meets the falling angel?"

AH. I HEAR YOU HAVE MET HIM TOO

2/2
#GNUTerryPratchett #MicroFiction #TootFic #fanfiction

I somehow have started (and continued) writing nature poetry and overall I am very confused about it. I am not a poetry person. Where is it coming from?
Trying to blog more again, not that I really have the time: https://kebrent.blogspot.com/2025/02/lazy-soup.html
Lazy Soup

I've been making chicken soup a lot the past couple weeks, and it is a version I call lazy soup, because it's fast to put together, and you ...

Or maybe it was modeled on the cliches of faculty meetings... hm...
I was looking at that Simple Sabotage manual (I read a book on the OSS in high school and have been fascinated since), and there are some overlaps with academia that make me wonder if we've been sabotaging ourselves for decades.
There is a (I think) immature Cooper's hawk hanging out in our neighborhood, which is having the side effect of the feeder on the side of the garage lasting more than a day because the sparrows are too spooked.