A few of my favorite things I

A new blog series, loosely based on my sister's Five Things series. See Miss Lily at http://politicalprada.blogspot.com/

 Sending and receiving mail: a wonderfully perfect Downton Abbey
Road card arrived in a rather sticker-decorated envelope this week 

Michael Buckland's antelope and the Information
Science Antelope meme: the best part about
MLIS jokes is that no one else understands them.

"L'antilope cataloguée est un document initial et les autres documents sont seconds ou dérivés"

- Suzanne Briet

Texts from Jane Eyre: found these awhile ago
but they never cease to make me smile.

JANE WHERE HAVE YOU GONE
I AM BEREFT AND WITHOUT MY JANE I SHALL SINK INTO ROGUERY
i am with my cousins
WHICH COUSIN
IS IT THE SEXY ONE
Please don't try to talk to me again
IS IT YOUR SEXY COUSIN
"ST. JOHN"
WHAT KIND OF A NAME IS ST. JOHN
I'm not going to answer that
I KNEW IT
DID YOU LEAVE BECAUSE OF MY ATTIC WIFE
IS THAT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT
yes
absolutely
BECAUSE MY HOUSE IN FRANCE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE AN ATTIC
IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE WORRIED ABOUT
IT HAS A CELLAR THOUGH SO YOU KNOW
DON'T CROSS ME
HAHA I'M ONLY JOKING

- Mallory Ortberg

Zotero: a brilliant reference manager. Because nerdy.
Watch the video tour on Zotero's quick start guide
  


It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”

"I want there to be a Shift so bad. I want to feel my brain slide back into the slot it was meant to be in..."

“My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.”

“It’s tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.”

“I wanted to tell people, 'My depression is acting up today' as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.”

“People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.”

“Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here.”

“I’m not better, you know. The weight hasn’t left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out and go and chill at Aaron’s, look at Nia and be jealous again, take the subway home and hope that it has an accident, go and get my bike and head to the Brooklyn Bridge. All of that is still there. The only thing is, it’s not an option now. It’s just… a possibility, like it’s a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It’s not a very likely possibility.”