evil twin moment

I have the germ of an evil idea about the public library paper I have to write. She wants imaginative, right? Well, how about this-- give some real service to the underserved populations: immigrants (language classes) unemployed (help with job skills, including job search, how to fill out an application, GED classes) and homeless (showers.) maybe even an area of the parking lot for day labor pickup. (Damn, I wish I knew where to find the articles on this I found for my Foundations class.) Not that anyone who has any say over the budget would want anything to do with this, nor would the entrepreneurs who want to lease space to the library because they think it would be a status addition to their project, but hey, it's a school paper, right? Students are expected to be all pie-in-the-sky and impractical. There's lots of talk in library school classes about "access for everyone" and plenty of bemoaning illiteracy and such, so I think I may have found my hook. Makes me want to rub ny hands together and utter sinister laughs. Heh.

In all honesty, I must credit my lovely apprentice harleenquinzell with the suggestion of showers, which started me down that path, and a fabulous path I think it will be. I hadn't had a chance to see her for weeks, maybe even since school started. I was starting to jones for a visit with her, so last night was wonderful. I don't know when I've laughed so much. After she left to catch foklens' gig I went down to zihuatenejo's house for Book Club. Turns out I got there too late for the book discussion, which is probably just as well; it's been so long since I read the book that I had absolutely nothing to say about it except "I liked it." That right there put me in a class by myself-- apparently no one else liked it. Oh, well. I had a great time there, too. Talk about books and politics and web sites I'd never visited before. Oh, yeah, THAT kind of site. Heh.

Oh, well, back to the paper. Sigh.

yeah, what she said

From Weetabix' diary on D'land:

I’ve always believed that the Republicans run their campaigns like a war, while the Democrats run their campaigns like a bake sale, sort of relying upon the fact that people will just “do the right thing”. Which I’m sure they would on equal playing fields, but the competitor is not following those rules, which means that you have to adjust your strategy. I admire the Republicans for some of their research and correlations. Psychological profiling seems to offend folks because we all want to believe that we’re all precious snowflakes, individual and unique, but in truth, we are creatures of habit, and our personalities have commonalities. For instance, the analyst talked about buying patterns between Republicans and Democrats. Democrats are more likely to drive Subarus and Volvos, while Republicans are more likely to drive Lincolns and (and this is where I clutched the steering wheel of my Chrysler with abject dread and got ready to swallow back a mouthful of vomit) trucks. Note that there are certainly truck-driving Democrat outliers (Esteban, for instance) but they are looking at trends. They don’t need to necessarily understand why the two are linked (that’s psychology, not statistics) but it does add something valuable to their arsenal. Meanwhile, the Democrats are studying the song list of their Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits CDs, trying to pick their next theme song.

The rest of the entry is at: http://weetabix.diaryland.com/flavaflav.html The rest of the entry is not specifically related to this but she's a good writer.