Just some thoughts...

I wrote a letter to the editor of the Times-Union expressing my disappointment over Much Ado about Books this past weekend. The children's section was paltry and consisted of way too many folks trying to sell you stuff and not enough people reading, doing fingerplays, engaging kids. But the reason I wrote was because the hotel where they held it had ballrooms on multiple floors and no maps displayed, and you could just tell the old farts were having a time of it. Which got me thinking...radical thought coming, watch out now...why didn't they hold it in the Main Library?! The ground floor of that sucker is an immense hallway with ballroom upon ballroom for the panel discussions. Better yet, weather permitting, they could set up the children's stuff right in the children's room off that terrific patio on what, the third floor. There's that whole garage for parking next door, and it's centrally located. It's probably not equipped (too small) to handle the potential population that shows for Much Ado, but I can't help thinking that that's also why they stagger the panel discussions, so you never have an hysterical amount of people in the main areas at any one time. If they just planned logistics a bit better, staggered the panels to end 15 minutes apart maybe, instead of all at one time per block, then downstairs at the Main Library would have potential. And show the donators and taxpayers where their money's going.

I think it was the movie "Never Been Kissed..." Drew Barrymore and Molly Shannon having lunch at work, near the beginning of the movie, and a rather large female coworker sits down with them, toting 3, count them 3! Budget Gourmets stacked one on top of the other for her lunch. It's worth quite a chuckle. Thing is, anybody ever eat some of them low-cal meals? We've hit desperation food time here at Chez Johnson, so I brought a Lean Cuisine to work. Not only was it devoid of flavor, but by 2:00, I was rooting through my desk drawer for the truly desperate pickins', oatmeal, so that I could make it through the rest of the afternoon without a hunger headache and a bitchy demeanor.

Grandma's on the mend. Didn't get a whole lot of knitting done this weekend; gotta concentrate on the 2nd baby Ugg and the baby blanket for next weekend, ACK!