The Dewey Decimal system is better than I thought.

Yesterday I had one of those hallucinatory insights brought on by 6 hours of sorting shelves. ( Warning, precision geekery. )

cow, I take back what I said about Dewey before. I would now be happy to label your collection in either system. For unspeakably large collections, LC is probably still better, but at this point I would need to see a demonstration of that.

Oh, and I have now officially shelf-read (reordered) the library's ENTIRE juvenile section, from Fic A through Biography Z. Go me.

Magical earrings, no more counselling

I just got my first piece of Pride jewelry. This both satisfies and amuses me.

I went to my last counselor's appointment this morning. I got surprisingly teary at the realization that I won't be seeing her again. Afterwards I wandered out aimlessly with a vague impulse to spend money and, totally against form, went to the mall. My quest ended at Claire's, a cheap girlygirl jewelry store, where I continued on my usually fruitless quest for work-appropriate clip earrings.

Miraculously, they had quite a selection, including a new technology called "spring hoop clips" which work admirably and look exactly like normal earrings. I selected two pair of these, very boring vanilla hoops in case I need them for work.

The cheerful salesperson informed me I got a third pair free. I sighed, knowing that nothing else on the rack really looked like something I'd wear, and looked at them all again. As if by magic, there was a pair that I swear had not been there before, tiny silver hoops with even tinier pride rings strung onto them.

I've always avoided pride jewelry out of a vague sense that I wasn't entitled. It dawned on me when I saw these lovely trinkets that I have lovers of both genders and dress up as a guy for fun. I can fuckin' well wear pride earrings if I want to.

Ironic that I reach this realization, and obtain the symbolic proof, after living on the border of Idaho for 2 years instead of in Seattle where it's everywhere. Or maybe that's why it was so much clearer here.

Coffee cup meme

From moominmuppet, started by northbard. Northbard thinks it won't spread far. Hahhhhh.

Coffee cup quiz!

Everyone has a coffee-cup. Even people that only drink tea, have coffee cups. Even people who drink from the tap, and eschew all modern conveniences..have at least one coffee-cup. And we all have the one we love the most, and would rather wash out and use than take a clean one and use.

And so, I ask : what is your favorite coffee-cup, and why?

In high school and college it was a gift from my mother, Hire the lefthanded. It's fun to watch them write. It had an instructive cartoon of a lefthander writing.

At work last year it was a gift from my father, SNOOD (edit: lunar__angel reminds me it's actually Forget Life, Play Snood). It has pictures of all the icons from the video game on it, ridiculously brightly colored.

My favorite mug of all time, however, is my sister's. It is an oversize stein with the extra-wide base for balance. The logo is in the standard college logo with circling letters format and says UNIVERSITY OF GALLIFREY surrounding a blue police call box.

If anyone ever finds another of these and gives it to me, there may be oral sex or other similarly valued favors in it for you.