Since March is the book drive at work each Thursday one or two of us goes on the radio to talk about the bookstore or their programs. Today Cori (the bookstore manager..Hannah quit last year) and I went today. It was cool hearing the DJ talk in person haha. We talked about how awesome our bookstore is haha and I talked about how I'm with AmeriCorps. Everyone at work forgot to listen when it came on (thanks :P) but I hope *someone* in Fairbanks heard it haha. I've got to say though that I LOVE Cori as the manager..Hannah was really hard to work with and Cori is really nice and easygoing and doesn't act all annoyed when you ask her something (Hannah rolled her eyes at me once!). I'm very comfortable with Cori..she's done so much good stuff for the store (she's very organized too). Yay!

( Day 62 - Last place you traveled to )

Would you rather be trapped in an elevator packed with wet dogs or three fat men with bad breath? The dogs

Today's trivia: The word "deadline" originated in Civil War prisons, where lines were drawn that prisoners passed only at the risk of being shot

Me, Nina, Michelle, Becky, Hannah and mom had a meeting about my future today. Originally my contract with AmeriCorps was supposed to end next year in April..but today Nina said they had extended it to three years a couple months ago. I was like *GASP* haha. We talked about if I could do another year..to justify it I would have to have more responsibilities..like being the supervisor over the book cleaners (awesome :D) and doing the cash register (eek!). Becky doesn't know if she'll be able to get the money though (she said she's gonna beg haha) and Michelle's gonna see her boss about it. Then I'd go for another year till April 2012. If this doesn't work out I'd have to find another job at Barnes and Noble or Gulliver's or go to school (I could still volunteer there though). We'll see what happens..

I can't believe it's almost October and it hasn't even snowed yet. It was in the middle 50s today..woww

Day 30- Who are you? Ummm..Heather? Haha..I am me..no one else. Yep. Aww..that's the last day of the meme! Maybe I'll find another good one haha

We had to let the pigeon go..none of the places Hannah called would take it cause it was "just a pigeon." It looked more alert than yesterday but I don't think it could fly. Poor thing..

Mom and I found a road by the airport that goes to the Tanana River. Cool! There were other trails that might have led to the Chena-Tanana confluence but it was cold and stuff so we didn't go this time

I love how out of all the roads in Fairbanks they choose the one right outside where I work to totally tear up so they can fix it. :P It makes the building shake haha

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Today's trivia: July 16, 2009 the Sears Tower in Chicago was renamed Willis Tower

BLIND GUARDIAN: Eight New Songs Completed - Mar. 4, 2009

German power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN have finished writing eight new songs for the band's forthcoming album. Vocalist Hansi Kürsch states: "What can I say about these songs? They rule, of course. You want a more precise description? Impossible. All I can say is that each and every song is 100% BLIND GUARDIAN, which, naturally, means there is a wild bunch of different things going on from time to time (always?). According to atmospheres: we have everything from the more 'Nightfall'-ish 'Curse My Name', to the 'Script'-ish 'Wheel Of Time'. In comparison to 'A Twist In The Myth', the lyrical direction will be more on the fantasy side as you most probably can figure out by these titles. The song 'Sacred' will give you an idea about the quality and the direction of the songs. We have mixed modern elements with traditional ones throughout the whole songs. We may need two or three more tracks before we can call it a complete album, but being that far in the songwriting process we nevertheless have made first plans for a production start in September or October 2009

Wow! There hasn't been a new Blind Guardian album since 2006! And they made a song about the Wheel of Time series?? I used to LOVE those books!

There's a new bookstore manager at work..the other one quit cause she found a better job (psh!). The new one (Hannah) is waaay better anyway..she's awesome haha. I found a glacier book and bought it for my Glacier Collection of Epicness ;)

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Forget-me-not: The Alaska state flower is small and blue and grows in bunches