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This post will have to be all in English... sorry... this keyboard is only in English

The last two days have been just as fun and stimulating, although somewhat uneventful. Yesterday I went to the grocery store (oops... coop) and found a can of port and parmesan cheese spaghetti sauce!!! It took everything I had to not open up the can and down the contents! I will report back on how good it is as soon as I make myself some spaghetti.

Today, I figured I would share with you some of my findings here in the library and also in the new issue of Utne (which you should all run out and buy!)

For all of those interested in being a children's librarian (or for those of you being the proud owners of children) here is a cute little magazine that could interest you: All Round Magazine: A radical mag for children ages 1 to 100.

For all of you pot heads out there (yup... that's you Steph!) who want a Canadian alternative to HighTimes, and tricks for their summer garden, check out: Headsmagazine

This next one was in the Utne and made me think of Larry... Some guy started an alternative herbicide business with goats. He has a herd of goats that he rents to people so that they can weed their lawns (the goats apparently eat the weeds and not the grass!) Check out this story! Larry could start his own business! (Does he still have his goat?)

For all you world music lovers, a CD was reviewed in Utne called Ethiopiques 17 by Tlahoun Gessesse (an Ethiopian). Here's what the reviewer had to say: "Imagine the steadiest, coolest Motown rhythms, then add James Brown horn riffs and soulful, anguished vocals in Amharic and Oromo, and you have these early-'70s recordings of pan-Ethiopian pop star Gessesse"

Another interesting CD: Tres Cosas by Juana Molina, an Argentinian musician apparently making great electronica. She's on the same label as Franz Ferdinand, so it can't be all bad, eh?

And finally, one quote from an article that made me think that we really have to do something about the librarian stereotypes: "I have the fashion sense of a 1972 elementary school librarian. You know, the one who wore beige spongy-soled shoes, a twill blue just-below-the-knee skirt, and a brown pilled sweater. She lived at school - we all knew this to be true - and the most eye-catching object ever to grace her person was the pearl and rhinestone brooch her mother left her."

If I ever turn into that person, someone please shoot me.

On the agenda tonight (if all goes well): The Decemberists, playing at a bar nearby! Can't wait!