With 4 days to go

Sunday's weather forecast now says 30% chance of showers; that's still not bad!

Wondering when I can get over to FleetFeet (or maybe Academy Sports in Decatur on my lunch hour?) and buy some GU Energy Replacement? On my long training runs, I usually take Clif or Luna bars (I'll get one of my favorites to eat before the race), but GU packets are easier to carry* and quicker to gulp down in a race. 100 calories each of sugars and carbs, electrolytes, caffeine in a flavored squishy (gooey) gel state.

Note to self: Good grief, heather, you're running a marathon; this is not the time to worry AT ALL about ingesting 500 calories or so of sugar!

*Undecided if I want to wear my belt pack in the race. I won't need it to carry the weight of my own water bottles with water stations on the course, but it would be convenient for storing GU and kleenex. However, my running skirt also has little pockets or I could even stash a couple of packets in my jogbra.

LOL...I find that highly amusing, thinking of padding my bra with GU packets like silicon implants...honestly though, tucking stuff in my top against my chest does work as a secure and nonchafing extra carry spot.

Later Edit: Got my GU and a brisk 1.5 mile walk at lunch. :)

thoughts & energy

To tn_grrl who is having thyroid surgery today.

And to my sister, I hope you have a positive and strengthening time on your meditation retreat! Check in with me next week after you get back, please?

seasonal disorder

Library staff are putting up the tree and other holiday decorations today. I'm hiding out at my desk. As excited as I get for Halloween, I am a big Humbug about Christmas (and I think I'll have tofu for Thanksgiving dinner, just because).

League of Extraordinarily Unprofessional Library Censors

....on the story of a pair of library workers losing their jobs by refusing to check out The League of Extraordinary Gentleman: The Black Dossier to a patron as per their employer’s policy.

http://www.kentucky.com/latest_news/story/1011029.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/18/library-workers-fire.html
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/11/09/alan-moore-destroyer-of-librarians/

While it is an adult graphic novel and not a child's comic book, it was wrong HOW the book was witheld (against policy and on personal whims). The circulation clerks should have conferred with and deferred to a supervisor/director/board about policy concerning challenged materials (even when challenged by staff); perhaps requesting to hold the book for the approval of the 11 year old patron's parents before checkout in this case- if that is allowed in their existing access policy.

Later Edit: Turns out the public library where I work has also had patron complaints about sexual content in LEG graphic novels (different volume, ours in #2 and has a couple of "racy" pages of Alan Quartermain and Mina Harker being intimate. Shows boobs and butts, sexual poses, but no genitalia in view). The book is still in circulation, shelved in our Graphic Novel Section.

Part of me wants to roll my eyes and say "good grief", it wouldn't take you long at all to go grab a mystery, contemporary fiction or even a classic to find something with just as or more explicit content..is the difference just because of the format and this being visual? What about photography books of nudes or ancient greek art? IMO, it comes down to freedom of information and of choice; I'm glad a wide variety of books are available in our public libraries.