Happy National Book Lovers Day!! My TBR bookshelf is always growing haha


How can I resist taking a picture with my favorite book?? LOL

After only eight months as Executive Director at the Literacy Council, Heidi had to step down (she's been having trouble finding daycare for her son). She definitely enjoyed it though. Someone already working at LCA might take the position, which is cool, because she's very nice lol

Good thing I have insurance, because after those ER visits and hospital stays, I would have ended up owing THOUSANDS of dollars. O___o It's crazy it costs so much!

( august 6-9 )

Today's trivia: At $378.5 million, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the most expensive film ever made

Today I saw something in person I'd only ever seen on TV..as I walked outside to walk to work, I heard a bunch of sirens, and saw a car flanked by a police car, with at least three other cars following them. I saw another bystander looking very curiously down the street, and when I turned the corner, I saw the police had blocked the car in. One officer had a (very excited) K9, and the officers were yelling "HANDS!! LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS!!" I was pretty shocked to actually see something like this in person! Then it looked like one officer had his gun out, and I backed up and was like "yeahhh, I'll walk down the other street instead" haha. If I had left my house a minute or so earlier, I might have been in the middle of all that! (I could have watched from my apartment, had I been home!) I kept walking, and then I saw two MORE police cars show up! Wow, what did this person do?? Haha. When I passed that spot on the way home, I saw car parts in the snow. I'm really curious about why they were chasing that car, but I don't see anything about it online yet. It was an exciting morning :P

Heidi (the new Executive Director) is different than Mike, in that she wants to do stuff in the bookstore as well (Mike didn't do much except for check people out occasionally, and if the store was doing well, he let everyone else run it). She had the idea last month to do a blind date with a book, which was pretty fun! She is more quiet and reserved though, and I wonder if she thinks I'm dumb, because I stumble over my words a lot. D: It's cool she has fun ideas for the bookstore though! (I miss Elias though, I hope he visits again one day!)

( 2. What was one of the most interesting concerts you've been to? What was interesting about it? )

Today's trivia: Syndrome K was a fake disease made up by Italian doctors to save Jews who had come to the hospital for protection from the Nazis. The Jews would be admitted to the hospital and quarantined. When the Nazis came to raid the hospital, they were told about the highly infectious disease, and the patients were told to cough violently if a Nazi soldier came close. The Nazis "fled like rabbits" and dared not enter the building again. The cover story saved the lives of somewhere between 25-100 Jews and political refugees (wow!)