"I Have Always Been a Storm"

Love this Fleetwood Mac song. and rain. and pretty much any Fleetwood Mac song.

Been meeting it up with two at Western Springs Historical Society today, before I have a shopping appointment at Target and Half-Price books. Then doing more work for Swedish and Edgewater museums at home, in between heavy Facebook and ChicagoBreakingNews.com sessions.

For someone who never had any extra-curricular activities or jobs until I was 19, I sure am taking on a lot. Sounds like I'm experienced, with two museums under my belt, another historical society in the works, and in the running for library employment in the burbs. Also trying to put in time to CAASE, my first step into the volunteering world over a year ago.

In the next coming months, my life will be as busy and hectic as a storm, if it hasn't already. Now that most of the drama in my social life has subsided since hitting me over two years ago, I can focus on being peaceful and career-oriented for years to come.

And now, to coincide with my mood, my schedule, and the scary weather approaching our town right now, here is "Storm" performed live by Fleetwood Mac.

The Time Traveler's Wife

My eyes are puffy and my head still hurts from sobbing after I finished this book late last night. I'm afraid to watch the movies for fear it may spoil the deeply emotional story (it did so with White Oleander, despite me imagining Michelle Pfiefer as the mother in the book too)--although I would not mind seeing Eric Bana drop naked every 5 minutes.

I must meet Audrey Niffenegger, my idol for the moment, since she's from Chicago and still teaches here (I believe), and ask her if it was just as hard for her to write the novel as it was for us to read it.

And now I want to be a librarian.

Found some more good and interesting reads online, despite my stack of 15 books waiting for me since I graduated college a month ago. Next in my purse is Girls of Riyadh, and after that may be Rembrandt's Whore.