Cataloging: Day 12

Today's observations: I'm so close to reaching a stopping point! I think that if I had another week I might have been able to get through the last few sections, Easy Reader and Juvenile Nonfiction, the latter of which is due for a thorough weeding. Alas, I must move on, but I trust Rita (or whoever draws this fun task) to finish what is left.

The last full cart!

I discovered today that children's books are considerably more difficult to find appropriate records for, because they are in so many different editions. I will be perfectly happy to never see a Hardy Boys book again in my life. Their more recent adventures, by the way, have gotten considerably more dramatic than they used to be. There are spies and kidnapping and amnesia... I don't think that Nancy Drew's new adventures are quite as exciting, but I could be wrong.


Titles cataloged today: 88

Titles cataloged total: 768 (plus another 148 by my cataloging comrades, bringing the final total to 916!)

Audio entertainment during the drive: Talking with Meredith. We discovered that our movie tastes diverge considerably once you get past Fried Green Tomatoes and Inglourious Basterds. Although I was not in the car at the time, I also started listening to the audiobook of The girl who loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. Some people collect Pokemon, I collect Stephen King. To each their own.

New Southern discovery: The guys who direct traffic in construction areas are referred to here as "flagmen". I have always just called them "guys who direct traffic in construction areas".

Something I miss from California: Byron, the black bear, who lives on our couch and watches movies, tv, and sports with us. Eleanore did this fabulous drawing of Byron as Speed Racer. (Also, she's a really good artist and you should check out her work here.)