The Traveling Librarian!

Well guys,

I've went coastal now. I have currently been to 4 libraries in my journey out west. I visited a library in South Dakota that had an interesting approach to their lost and found. Once a month they spread items from the lost and found on the table with a sign that says" If this is yours take it". There was a library in Yellowstone national park. Really cute and small, had access to Internet with a guess pass. The second library was in the doubletree hotel in Berkeley California, I "checked out" Angry Agnes and the hit man(yes I brought lots of books but I"m a reader I zoomed through them). The last an most interesting library was in Reno Nevada. I say interesting but the library was located in side the mall. This is the first time I've experienced what it feels like to be a customer waiting on the other side of the gate waiting for the branch to open. Who know what I'll find next.

Des

Trivia Time!

Let's play a game! I'll give you some clues and you can figure out where I've been so far.

I traveled through three states in the first day of my trip. Here's your clues.

State number one is the 19th state to be added to the union.

State number two is home to the white sox and cubs.

State number three has a Mayo Clinic.

Can you guess where I've been?

Tune in tomorrow(if I can find a hotel with a business center) to see where I was and where I went next!

TTFN

Des

always,always read the fine print

Well guys,

I should have read the contest rules completely. I thought you would just submit one of your favorite photos. It actually had to be a photo from a columbus arts festival. So I won't be submitting my photo:(. It's cool- Thanks to all who voted.

photo competition?

Hey guys,

I'm sending in one of my random photos for a contest in the alive paper. Please vote by comment by June 19th. I'll let you guys be judge and jury on this one.

des

Where has desi been?

Hey all,

I've been a very busy lady lately. First can I just say that I love being in school right now. Not only for the learning opportunity but for the cheap tickets I get from OSU. Of course I pay a quarterly activity fee so I'm kind of subsidising my own fun. Where have I been well.....

On May 21st my cousins and I went salsa dancing and got a free dinner from cheddars(they were too slow and ended up buying our dinner for us).

On May 22nd-my birthday! I went to the cleveland indians game with my friend Ms. A.


We didn't win but I still had fun and we stayed for the fireworks!

I cooled it down and did a couple papers and learned a couple dips in my social dance class

but I want to get here!

Then I went to the crew game with my friends Mr. B and Ms. A. I had a blast. Favorite comment from kids: "We're not blacking out the galaxy maybe their wearing sunscreen" and "That's expensive for beer" out of the mouth of babes!

Well I'm off to a clippers games next. I can't wait to see the new stadium.

Check ya later gaters

Going,going,Gone

My time has been going,going,gone for the last two quarter. Consequently, this is the first time that I've been able to post anything. Here's a quick rundown of what's been going on so far. I've been:

1. Salsa Dancing
2. Ballroom Dancing
3. Apartment Hunting
4. Hiking
5. Reading bloody Shakespearean history plays(yippee!)
6. Trying to get another MP3 player that actually plays all my music.
7. Making noise
8. Sleeping whenever I can(on the side of the road-at a red light-I'm not picky)
9. Boldly going where not cook has gone before-pulled pork with homemade barbecue
sauce!
10. Becoming addicted to groupon and buying all my dream items at half-price
11. Speaking of half-price went to half-priced books and scored a box set of musicals from the 30's and 40's-6 bucks
12. Doing my taxes-hopefully correctly
13. Planning my trip across the United States!
14. Trying to be grateful for the little things in life like 72% cocoa chocolate and groupon.

Well that's all I can think about this morning-12:32 am. I wouldn't be up but I just finished the rough draft of my Titus Andronicus paper(blood thirsty thriller choc full of murder and mayhem not to mention enemy pies-but don't take my word for it!). Will now sleep approximately 8 hours and hope to construct this paper correctly in order to produce and A and not just for effort from Ms. Oleary.

Wish me luck!


P.S.

Rip Guru!

Des

"Whoooeee boys, that's some mighty fine pickin' and a singing!

I was always the weird one musically in my family. I actually liked the folk songs we learned in 4Th grade. I internalized " This land is your land" and "My Bonnie flew over the ocean". So it should come as no surprise that I like blue grass music. There is something so beautiful in the poetry that goes on between a musician and his instrument. When the bow hits the violin and strikes a cord that resonates inside you that you never knew was there. Music like that just makes my heart happy. I confess to getting lost in it! So tonight I let my toes tap, my hands clap,and I gave up on all pretense of decorum when I listened to the Punch Brothers tonight. The Punch Brothers are a collection of musicians that have between them a bass fiddle(Paul Kowert), fiddle(Gabe Witcher),mandolin(Chris Thile),guitar(Chris Eldridge),and banjo(Noam Pikelny-affectionately called pickle). Both Gabe Witcher and Paul Kowert stole the show for me. I love fiddle almost as much as I love a good guitar riff and the deep color of sound that comes from the bass fiddle-(Oy I'm all verklempt talk amongst yourselves for a moment-okay I'm back). Each musician put there love for the craft on display tonight. It's one thing to play well, it's another thing all together to lose yourself in the music and take the audience along with you. I was swept away by their musicality and there oneness. Each musician played his instrument awesomely but they listened so intently to one another and vibe off of each other. What can I say-I have a new band to add to my expanding list of must haves! Even if you don't like blue grass- you can't deny the talent. Give a listen to the Punch Brothers.