Goodbye Nomie

I got a new job! Starting August 23rd, I will be the new librarian at Primary Source in Watertown. My last day at my current job is August 17th. I am so happy at the prospect of working somewhere with a clear mission and normal people who actually respect and value their library. It is a small, non-profit organization that works with teachers to create curricula for history classes. The library supports the organization and is in need of some organization and tlc. I am looking forward to the challenge!

In other news, while I was staying in town for the DNC, my mom 'lost' my air conditioner out of my bedroom window in a mad rush to "shut all the windows" in case a drop of rain made its way, sideways, onto the hardwood floors in my new house. Her devotion to dry wood caused her to approach the window with the ac in it, notice a gap, and attempt to close it, thus spilling the large unit onto my driveway 2 stories below, crushing it with totality. No rain got in that day. Well done, mom.

I also co-hosted (with Kate) Jen's bachelorette party on Fri night. She loved being handcuffed to blow-up Charlie while completing fun and dirty tasks (so much so she asked to keep the handcuffs and blow-up doll!!) We started at Kate's apartment, moved onto Dick's Last Resort where they really know how to abuse a bride-to-be and ended at the Hong Kong in Faneuil Hall with meat on a stick and scorpion bowls. Kudos to Jen for completing all tasks all the while "not feeling drunk at all" (as she slurred her way through every word in the English language). On to the wedding in 2 weeks.

Well, I knew it could happen, but I guess I didn't really believe that it would. Nomar Garciaparra has been traded. In return, Boston received 2 Gold-Glovers who can play amazing defense and as evidenced by last night and today's game, not much offense. I know that Sox management wants to win a championship worse than its fans, so I will trust this move, but I really would have liked to see Nomar finish his career in Boston. According to Dan Shaugnessy from the Boston Globe (I can't even link to his article, he is such a douche), Nomar hated Boston and was miserable, so good riddance. But, I think that he was an amazing player, who got hurt, had management lose trust in him so he became discouraged. I think he is focused and driven and has a few years of good baseball in him. I wish him well with the Cubbies. At least he has as much of a shot, if not less, at winning the whole thing this year.