the muppet movie is as good as you remember

It's been a week.

And it ain't over yet.

Today was as busy as I expected it to be. Lots of cutting of flyers for an outreach event on Saturday. I'm heading to one of the local movie theaters with a co-worker to register people for library cards. Though it means I'll be unable to attend mulitple fun events this weekend, I'm actually pretty excited about this. I love promoting the library in the community. And last night I came up with a brilliant idea during a harvest party celebration: if you register for a card you'll automatically be entered to win a 4 pack of free movie tickets compliments of the theater. Plus we'll be advertising for the DVD Release Parties, the Family Holiday Film nights, and the other events that we aren't associated with that are for the most part lame, but we're all a team so let's work together folks!

Attempting an attitude adjustment here at work.
Though the A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette pretty much summed up my feelings a few days ago:

Out, Burning
Librarians should be weary of being too good at their jobs. The momentary high that comes with exercising your innovations, creativity, efficiency, and skill will only be followed by a deep dive into bitterness and cynicism. So skip all the hard work and join your miserable coworkers now in the professional funk that is librarianship.

yeeeah.

On a good note, I went secondhand clothes shopping this week and made out like a bandit. 2 pairs of work pants (1 pair from J. Jill that are only missing a button and are supercute wide-ish legged corduroy), 1 short lil' tweed skirt, 1 wool/jersey dress, 1 vest (last fall I wanted a vest. I was mocked. This fall I got one. I was so ahead of my time) and 1 sweet sweet sweet vintage black cardigan with hand beading that needs a little tiny bit of repair work on the lining. My total: $22.20. FOR EVERYTHING. I still have accessories to purchase. Most notably some tights, belts, and shirts. But I got all of that at one store. And there are a ton of options here in town for second hand shopping. I'm totally hooked.

Chafee's win in the Republican primary in R.I. doesn't exactly bode well for the Democrats Senate takeback plan. I made a bold prediction last night that this would clinch it for the Republicans remaining in power, but I think I want to take that back. Whitehouse has a pretty good shot at dethroning Chafee. We'll just have to see what those crazy New Englanders will do.
Though R.I. is a blue state, I know of some other New England states that have a tendency to be a little independent minded and uncomfortable with being completely partisan.

25 minutes left in this day and counting...