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Hannah

About Me

Day job: professional geek, Library of Congress
Spare time activities: going to as many gigs as time and money allow, eating good food, traveling, theater, occasional singing, and various home renovation projects.
Household: One brilliant spouse (Dave), one largish, dumbish cat (Apprentice), and one smallish teenage cat (Smoot).

My Blog

I’m on Jeopardy this week

So, I haven't actually been able to say anything about it until this week, but I'm going to be on Jeopardy this Friday, October 10.  Check your local listings for my 30 minutes of mild notor...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:54:00 GMT

Best Buy are teh dumb

Today was my first trip out of the house on my own after surgery.  Having not been out of the house in a while, I am somewhat behind on my music buying.  Being somewhat old and vaguely Luddi...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:17:00 GMT

Merlin T Cat, 1994-2008

It was time.  He hadn't eaten since Thursday morning, he was hiding when we got home on Friday, and every time we tried to pet him or pick him up he'd cry.  And when we got him to the vet on...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:28:00 GMT

Merlin update

Took Evil Merlin back to the vet for x-rays, and there's no sign of anything tumorlike.  Whew.  Looks like he'll be terrorizing vet techs for several years to come, as long as we keep feedin...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:53:00 GMT

cats love the big beats

Since I didn't get a chance to preload CDs in the car for this past weekend's trip to the vet, we were limited on the latest howl test to what was already in the car.  The results:Maximo Park: 1 ...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:09:00 GMT

Sound advice from Metro

Metro driver: "Please remember to take your personal problems, er, items with you when leaving the train."
Posted by on Thu, 10 May 2007 16:09:00 GMT

Fun with felines

Like all cats, the Idiot Twins hate going to the vet.  As soon as we get the carrier in the car, Apprentice starts howling with every breath or so.  Unless, as we discovered a while back, th...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:08:00 GMT

why I love my job, part 1 of x...

Occasionally, something will happen to remind me just how spiffy it is to work at the world's largest library.  There were a couple of those somethings today:first, I step into the elevator to he...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:07:00 GMT

Hello, Cleveland! er, Chicago. Uh, DC. Yeah! DC!

So, we're at the Kaiser Chiefs show at the 9:30 Club on Saturday, and sometime during the first song, Ricky tries on the "exhort crowd into shrieking by mentioning (insert name of town here)."Unfortun...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:19:00 GMT

Resistance is useless

Right, so I've finally, after several years of resistance, entered the blogosphere - here rather than LJ because of the music content.  It'll give me an excuse to actually write some gig reviews,...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:22:00 GMT