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Happy New Year! Herringbone and super black in the spirit of DGAF until there is peace in 2024.

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Wabash bucket hat and JMM molino. Need to clean the sunscreen and salt off my phone camera, but cannot be bothered to do it ️

The tour-chore has arrived!! Thank you so much for all the goodies, @endo. There will be quality anti-fascist stickers popping up all over this town

The jacket fits me much better than I expected! It’s warming up a bit, but I should be able to get lots of good use out of it during March and the beginning of April in Asheville.

I’m at work today. For this of you who don’t know, I’m a youth services librarian at the public library. The fit pic is me standing next to our kid’s graphic novels.

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Xpost from the world tour thread.

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Got a sweetheart deal on some VIP dugout seats at the Asheville Tourists baseball game tonight! Our friend was trying to ditch her seats last minute and Marcia scooped them up for us. It was admittedly freezing and the Tourists were getting beaten badly, so we left in the 8th inning. Still a blast!

Glad to have you along! Mornings in my house consist of mainlinibg coffee and remembering how to speak English. There’s also a fair amount of jockeying for lap space amongst our various animal friends. Today Manolo was the big winner, but not without having to be lifted onto the couch. He has little dog steps, but is lazy and doesn’t want to use them when he knows he can get what he wants.


Our backyard isn’t really springing out yet, maybe by the end of my leg some of the azaleas will be blooming.

Back at work again. Here’s my desk, which is buried in piles of books and toys at all times.
Perusing the great literature with one of my puppet counterparts:

Quick and dirty fit pic:

I am very happy with this! I think the fabric needs to settle a bit for it to really drape well, but this shirt is fantastic. Only bummed that it’s 70 degrees outside and only likely to get hotter. AC is my friend.

Hi friends! Thank you so much for checking with me, and your concern. We are doing fine. It is going to be a very challenging time as Asheville’s municipal water system was completely decimated by flooding and landslides. We expect to have our power back hopefully by Friday. It may be a month or more until there is running water.

We are the lucky ones! Our house had no damage, and we live in a very caring neighborhood that has become a hotbed of mutual aid activity. We are taking care of each other. We are both local government employees so we will be picking in with a lot of relief efforts in addition to pitching in around the neighborhood. There is a LOT to do, and we will keep busy.

Thank you for all of the love that you’re sending our way! Keep it coming. I will try to keep y’all updated as I am able.

OUR POWER FINALLY CAME BACK ON.

WTB section and @Crispy-Heron came through, big-time! I will cherish this one.

Thanks @tody! There certainly are a lot of places in this country that are contending with censorship coming from the right-leaning parts of our political system. At risk of getting us into a discussion we can’t have on the forum, I won’t go too deep into the weeds on what I think about this or how it makes me feel. But, we can touch on the mechanics of it.

Schools are more regulated than libraries as a government entity, because even though we are both publicly funded by taxes, children have to attend school. It’s mandatory for kids to have some sort of formal schooling, which ranges from home school, to private school, to charter schools (private that can receive public funds in some places), to public school. Since the kids have to be there, the local and state governments can feel beholden to public pressure to do things like pull books that have sexual content or feature LGBTQ+ characters. Some places are even legislating in favor of censorship. The public library isn’t immune to this—but we do get to make some of our own rules governing how we curate our collections. These rules can of course be overridden by statutes from any level of the government.

So, in NC thus far, there is a dangerously vague nebulous law called SB 49 which has changed the way teachers can talk about gender and sexuality, and is endangering trans kids by making school employees out them to their parents, and tries to govern the way they are treated in school. This law has made a lot of school systems across the state of NC very nervous, and many have decided to curtail their libraries’ collections, ban books, and police what their teachers and librarians are doing in their classrooms. This far, SB 49 does not reach specifically into public libraries, but we are watching very closely, because our conservative republican NC legislature would like nothing more than to take more control over the types of information that are available to youth in our state.

The good news is that Asheville, my city, and Buncombe County, who is my employer, are relatively liberal parts of Western North Carolina. Our library policy has a very defined process that people have to follow if they would like to “challenge” a book or other piece of media in the library’s collection. Once they submit the proper form, the challenge is reviewed by an internal committee of librarians who issue a recommendation to either keep or remove an item from the collection. This recommendation is reviewed by a library advisory board made up of area volunteers. Both decisions are then examined by the Library Director, who gets to make the final call whether we keep the challenged material or not. Some library systems around the country have gotten into hot water because they don’t have a specific or transparent process in place to deal with these issues. I feel fortunate that my library has a solid policy and process in place. We have DEFINITELY seen an increase in the number of challenges in the last couple years.

As for what goes into the collection to begin with, I get to choose!! I do all of my own ordering of books for ages 0-18 at my branch library, and it’s great fun to see what’s out there, read reviews, and pick up cool new books for kids.

Finally, in regards to Terry Pratchett and Discworld—I am ashamed to admit that I’ve never read a single one of his books, so I don’t have an informed opinion about the librarian!

I too thought I would never have a chihuahua. Flash forward 13 years later, and I’m a chihuahua-mama forever. Mia and Mico aren’t with us any more, but Jefecita carries on with dogonality enough for two.

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Asheville Symphony, tonight! My parents have been season ticket holders my entire life, and every once in a while we tag along.

I made a new puppy friend training with a mobile hurricane relief call center on Thursday. They are calling him Noaa as he was rescued from flooding in Swannanoa, and after the weather emergency band.

Back atcha with the kenergy. This was a few weeks ago.