Sarah Beth Librarian

I write my blog with a giant pencil.

[sarahbethlibrarian]

Hi Friends! It’s me, I’m still alive.

I just wanted to chime in with my 2 cents about voting. 

I have seen a lot of posts with people talking about the first time they voted, how exciting it was, encouraging people to vote. 

I am just here to say that my first time voting was fine, unmemorable-- John Kerry lost, Barack Obama was elected to the Senate, ok. (I also voted in the primary that year. I love voting!)

But I will never forget the first election I was eligible to vote in, bc I didn’t vote. I was a sophomore in college, and I just... didn’t know how. I didn’t really understand what the midterms were, and I really didn’t understand how to vote, either in my college town or in my home state. 

And I will never, never forget the results of that night, when voters in my home state of Georgia elected a republican governor for the first time since reconstruction. Since reconstruction! I remember talking on the phone to my dad that night, going over the results, and feeling so bummed. And feeling like I had a little to do with it. This was pre-facebook, pre-twitter, pre-anyone TALKING about it, but it still felt crappy.

I don’t think you can register to vote in the banana state of Georgia anymore, but Illinois, where I live now, has DAY OF VOTER REGISTRATION. It’s ok to just show up with a utility bill and say, please help me vote! The poll workers will help you! 

And not sure who to vote for?  think about the issues you care about generally, and VOTE THE PARTY LINE. This is completely acceptable. It is. You do not have to vote for the perfect person. You can vote the party line, and you can even skip the judicial elections. We shouldn’t be voting for judges anyway!

There. My two cents on voting. Go forth, young ones, and do not live with my regret.

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she looks A MAH ZING

I love literally every part of this

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Creamy Chicken with Noodles - The Midnight Baker

This quick and easy chicken with noodles contains all-natural ingredients and no condensed soup.

I made this (basically, I cooked my own chicken and used fresh carrots and added onion and thickened with corn starch bc I think adding raw flour to liquid never works and tastes, well, floury) and it was SO DELICIOUS and we all ate it and there were no leftovers and it took approx 30 minutes including cutting the vegetables and thawing the chicken. It would be even faster with different noodles (I used no yolks which take forever but manischewitz are faster). 

It was a literal winner winner chicken dinner, and is going in the rotation for sure.

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reblogging this old gem bc I want to make it this week and I don’t want to forget.

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We’re hiring! Do you want to come work with me? This is an awesome job at a very nice library that I love (today is my 5 year anniversary!) despite my complaints about it. What is the internet for if not for only complaining about things? Anyway I love it here and I think you should apply to come work with me, assuming you are a YS person with appropriate experience.

Wahoo!

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someone please send me a rothy’s referral code I gotta get these shoes 

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Guys I watched all of Del Potro-Isner yesterday and I was so pumped to watch Serena and then I put the baby to bed and went into the den with a very sour lemon italian ice and pulled up the recording and it was not there so I said no big deal I will just watch the last set and Y’ALL it was OVER Serena beat her in two and I missed the entire thing!

Then I watched some of Rafa-Thiem and omg it was so hot and rafa was so sweaty and I made it almost three sets before I went to bed and Adam says it went until 1 am our time in a tiebreaker! 

Dear Tennis, I have been a fan for approx 8 days (but I’m committed) and I think that 5 sets is too long and everyone should be playing 3. Thanks!

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My sweet coworker got me a chocolate bar the other day and I have been so not into chocolate lately but this is really mild, sweet swiss milk chocolate and it is so good and every time I eat a little piece of it it makes me so happy. 

my work is still good, y’all, despite the current level of awful.

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This Del Potro-Isner match is BRUTAL. I just took a walk down the block and it was too hot for that, much less like 5 hours of tennis (no I’m not in new york but it’s approx the same weather here and there). Isner is so tall and I think he is going to melt down. Like when LeBron got too hot a few years ago and everyone made fun of him but when you are that large your body is DIFFERENT. Isner is 6′11 by the way. 

Anyway I just discovered tennis as a sport to enjoy and boy am I enjoying it. 

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I cannot stop thinking about Serena winning a grand slam tournament while 8 weeks pregnant.

GOAT.

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Very good, Serena Williams.

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I realize that many of you may not know Johnny Johnny Yes Papa.

YOU’RE WELCOME.

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Are You Johny Johny or Papa?

Johny Johny? Yes, Papa. Are you Papa? Maybe, Papa.

The weirdest thing my child has ever done* was start chanting 

JOHNNY JOHNNY YES PAPA

 EATING SUGAR NO PAPA

 TELLING LIES NO PAPA 

OPEN YOUR MOUTH HAHAHA

If your child watches nursery rhymes on youtube (which she doesn’t around us, which is why it was so weird) your Johnny Johnny day is COMING.

*a close second was the other day when she looked at me and said in a low voice, “mama, only one human loves you.” toddlers are WEIRD.

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I think about this a lot

How poorly matt damon rationed his ketchup when he was on his all-potato diet. 

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dialmformisandry replied to your post :

Has anyone else read A Little Life? And reflect...

I was like “am I just running with the wrong group because it seems like everyone goes there, but no one I know has”

lol SAME. I had to google it! (I mean, I knew it EXISTED, but I didn’t know a thing about it otherwise! let alone its life-changing powers!)

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alfa-lima-limon replied to your post:

Has anyone else read A Little Life? And reflect...

really?? the Alhambra? I’ve been avoiding that book but…I don’t know if I can now.

yep! a fairly pivotal scene happens in/around the alhambra. as I said, it is a LOT of book (literally, I had the paper copy and ended up switching to ebook bc it was so heavy!) but also in terms of what happens. There is a LOT of abuse, which I knew and would warn anyone about, but it will not impact your reading experience if you skim/mostly skip the portions about abuse. You can get it, and the depths of misery the abuse caused, without reading the extreme details. Beyond, that, it’s a beautiful book!

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Has anyone else read A Little Life?

And reflect constantly on the extremely unbelievable part of the book where somehow every character had had a transformative life experience at the Alhambra in spain? 

That’s all, that was a LOT of book. A little life, a lot of book. 

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Y’all in case anyone has heard about the new Cub, Daniel Murphy, and the controversy about how he said he disagreed with Billy Bean’s (an openly gay former baseball player) lifestyle--

and thought that he was talking about Billy Beane of Moneyball, and that it was a weird decision not to make him gay in the movie, and also that it’s weird they kept only referring to him as former player Billy Bean and not baseball manager Billy Beane

that’s because they are two different people-- former basebally player and openly gay Billy Bean, and central character of Moneyball and presumably straight Billy BeanE, with an e.

Just wanted to clear that up bc I have thought they were talking about moneyball beane for a solid week now.