Elvis to Isshoni Ryouri

Wow, the top prisons in the U.S. I wonder what are the top prisons of the world.

top

I hope I never have to find out what prison is like. But if I do the one in Florida sounds nice.

The article was related to Martha Stewart but they only say the amount of men. Where do the women go?

Should they know this information already? What is taking so long to figure a woman's body out?

Eggs

Ahhh, memories of Japan. I still have nightmares about the place. Just last night I dreamt that I was still riding my bike across polluted Gyoda on my way to one of the further elementary schools. When I got there they said I was at the wrong school. I was suppose to be at the other school about one hour bike ride. I knew this wasn't true, but that Moriya had lied again to make my already bad reputation worse. When I phoned him he put on that fake laugh and said how mistaken I was.

Here is one site about Japan, alas, it's true Japan but forgot a few things, the stinky men, whispering office workers in the corner staring at you, the stalker English students, the 'must pass the foreigner' when serving tea because they are not Asian, the lying to your face because it's fun and your just a stupid foreigner who knows and understands nothing, the 'let's push the foreign women in the train station' because we are scared non-Asian man will punch us and foreign women won't, the list goes on and on.

True Japan

This is how I feel and look today. Didn't get much sleep again last night.

Corpse Gallery

This will predict how much longer it is until I really do look like a corpse.

Death Clock

I must be in a dark mood. Finding all sorts of dark sites.

Stick figure death

Ahhh, time to get moving. Going to walk to the park and play a bit before going to work.

Found this site on a chat line.

Lost

Words can't really describe it. You have to see it for yourself.

Here is some virtual love advice for my single friends straight from Dr. Zaius, that crazy ape.

The Doc

This is a pretty good site. All the bits and bobs now have a use.

Joey Green

I was telling Oana yesterday about the person the security guard had to escort out of the library. He is a regular to the library. Has a bit of a drinking problem. He found an old TV in a garbage area and was trying to sell it in the men's bathroom of the public library.

Tomorrow should be a good day with exception to my pre-dawn waking time. I have a children's literature conference to attend at a local university. It includes dinner and authors speaking.

NIU

Oana is this person of interest to you? Philip Crawford: Graphic novels for children??

Only in Germany...State Paid Brothel Trips

I noticed today that I had three overdue items from the library that I had returned. I checked the shelves because I know I returned the items well over three weeks ago. They were not there. I think someone has it out for me...

It's too early in the morning. I have to get ready for an eight o'clock meeting. Ugh...

Oh boy, this is getting out of hand. Disney has removed the Janet Jackson like statue. Don't they still have the 3'D Michael Jackson performance? Janet

I am a sinner! I will rot in hell for an eternity. I don't have bible approved underwear!
Good Girl

Oana, I want a hunter Dan for X-Mas or maybe the Librarian action figure. Be sure to heed their warning. Hunter Dan® recommends all his Huntin' Buddies take an approved Hunter Education Course before going afield.
Big Dan and Ann

If only life where as easy for humans as it is for dogs.
Dog Days

Well, got to get dressed and ready for work but I would rather spend the day doing nothing.
Nonsense

I think my days would be a lot brighter if I could go around humping things. That is the problem with being a woman, I am not able to hump. What a great stress reliever it must be.

Hump Things

There are so many different things one can hump.

Yum

Even better

The last few days have been rainy and miserable. The weather is turning cool again. We are expecting snow this weekend.

My mood of late seems to reflect the weather. I am not sure what it is but something puts me in the mood for some Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and some weird foreign jam on fresh bread and a cup of tea sitting in my jammies with my best friend Oana discussing everything under the sun.

Perhaps it all these depressing movies the big baby wants to watch. We watched 21 grams, Monster, and Capturing the Friedmans.


Good news for Oana and I. Help is on the way...

Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo

My co-worker is taking medicine for an irregular heartbeat. She moved to this area a year ago and the stress has driven her to the doctor more than once.

It is really difficult to see her struggling. She is one of the nicest people at the library. She is sixty-five and lost all her savings to her husbands steel company that went under during the Japanese price wars. Now her husband is jobless. He has been told more than once that he is too old to hire, which is against the law. He was working for an insurance company at the end of last year. The owners wife meet a man from Denmark, cleared out the checking account (which housed the employees wages), and ran away with him. The man was attempting to get a second mortgage on his house when he was hit headon by a dump trucking killing him instantly. The two children for the marriage were now fatherless and motherless. Now the mother has returned to settle the estate. If there is any estate left it will go to pay the employees wages for three or more months of work. Not even Hollywood could have written a script as wild as this story.

I have seemed to have picked the busiest computer in the library. This entry is taking over an hour to write. I have to keep switching between windows because everyone is standing behind me.

Now I am writing on MS Publisher with a font of about two and am probably making all sorts of writing errors. Better get back to work. I have my last storytime of the winter season. One month of holiday and it all starts over again.

I applied to another job last night. It is a part-time job in the adult reference services. It would pay a lot more than my shelving job now, plus I would get to work more hours. Getting my foot in the door is the difficult part.

This really makes the blood crawl. Brings back memories. Best get out the straight vodka for viewing this one Oana.

Asian Cock

Couldn't hold a candle up to this classic.

Heminyctobora truncata

Did I mention I need another drink.

What a beauty.

Megaloblatta longipennis

"Lady aphids might be even worse off in the pregnancy department. They are born pregnant!"

The horror! I'll have to drink to that and bad memories of Asian cockroaches projecting themselves off the wall and into your hair when you take off one shoe.

Time for another drink.

The last three or four days have been so beautiful. With the days growing longer and warmer, we are spending most of the day outdoors. The parks have been packed with children and parents enjoying the spring like weather. Last year at this time there was at least six inches of snow on the ground. What is annoying me most about this week is my black mood. I can't seem to shake it of late. Saturday was the peak of my bad week, hopefully, next week will be brighter. I bounced two checks, had a major mess up at work, approached a friendly mom about starting a playgroup, whose daughter is in the wee ones class, in such an odd manner I think I scared her off, spent the fine weekend nursing a headache, spent way too much money eating out because I was too black to cook, and to finish off my working week, after I spent 30 minutes searching for anything with pokemon in it, the kids mother, who was somewhere else throughout the whole search, gives me an earful for finding pokemon for her child.

Now I am nursing not only the headache but the black mood with some White Russians. Seeing that it is the last week of my storytimes and I have to really chat it up with all the wealthy student's mothers, I will not be drinking myself in to a wild naked table sort of dancing alcoholic stupor. Maybe just a kind of stumble around with glassy eyes sort of stupor. Best get out some Dubliners.

Wild Rover

Cockroaches facts:

The giant cockroach Megaloblatta longipennis (what a great name!) from Peru and Ecuador can grow up to eight inches long and has a wingspan of one foot.

The female cockroach only mates once, but stays pregnant for the rest of her life.

Because of their nocturnal habits, the scientific name for cockroaches is Blattodea, which is Greek for "avoiding light."

The good news...
Of the 4,000 kinds of cockroaches on Earth today, only about one percent are household pests.

All of these wonderful facts come from the new book I ordered for our science collection, Insect-lo-pedia by Matthew Reinhart. The joys of ordering for the science section is that I get to learn all these wonderful facts so the next time I am in Japan or the Amazon jungle again, I can try and figure out which of the 4,000 kinds of cockroaches it is on my wall or the floor of the jungle. Take for instance, the harlequin cockroach, it has bright yellow warning colors and smells stinky.

Sunday was a perfect day for ice fishing, sunny and warm, except that the fish were not biting. Not a single fish for six hours of work.

It was hard work visiting my parents. There is so much stuff that the wee baby is not aloud to touch. We followed him around the house telling him 'no'. His highlight of the whole trip was taking a bath. They have a huge bath. All three of us could fit in it.

I have started my seedlings. Spring seems to be coming early this month. Friday it is going to be 50F (10C). I planted daikon, Chinese cabbage, impatients, lavender, basil, and cilantro. I set up a table in our living room with a lamp for night time sunlight or cloudy days.

I ran out of face cream a while ago, since I can't afford to buy more, I've been looking into making my own. Unfortunately, it seems an impossible feat. You need loads of weird ingredients. Instead, I may make some oatmeal soap. Soap is not as difficult, finding the time will be hard.