Squash

Q graduates from rice cereal!

Little Bones

Q arrived last week all decked out for Halloween. Totally her brother's little sis, bones and what appears to be a mohawk...

those bones will glow in the dark if needed,

J was much more literary in his interests, here are he & roommate L reading on the couch in our living room.

Such a cute pair!!!

Crocker Library

This week I started volunteering at the Crocker library, they hope to get everything ready for opening the first week of November. The shelving only came in last week - only 2 days before the museum opening. The library is downstairs in a lovely little room. Right now the stacks are pretty empty.

That is a window alcove back there, filled with boxes of books.

The mountains of boxes that have been emptied already (there are slightly smaller stacks behind the two flat piles you can see the tops of), I was able to get Jessie to help me cart all the boxes out to the recycling bins the floor so was clear for a little while.

This entire wall of shelves are all books donated from one person's collection - and this is not even all of the books that were donated this is maybe half. It makes me drool, to think of her having that many art books of her own.

Here are just a couple that caught my eye on Friday when I was organizing them:

From inside:

It is wonderful to be helping in the library and getting to walk through the Crocker on my way in is wonderful! It really is a beautiful museum.

Teachers Pet

Alright, not really, but pretty close...after staying up ALL night last night to work on a presentation for class tonight I totally failed! Neglecting to explain all the fantastic miscellanea I collected in my research and was completely inarticulate, skipping over entire sections because I was running out of time and had prepared too much.

I knew it was a great presentation with amazing content, and did take me from about 10pm last night until 7am, 10 am to 1 pm, 4 pm to 6pm today to compile. After 14 hours it better be fantastic.

It was so fantastic...my professor asked if she could have it, three times over the course of 15 min. She LOVED it, "amazing" "I have never seen a presentation like that" "where did you find everything". My friend J was sitting next to the Prof said the entire time Prof S. was ohhhhing and awwwing over everything.

For not covering half my content and points, and not having my themes as organized as well I might want I will contest that it was still slightly epic.

And...I believe I have found my final project, drum roll.............

DICKENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Graduation is getting closer by the day! If I can just get through the semester.