We'll be singing at the East Columbia Library from 7-8. It cheered me a lot this morning to see my group in both the library email and the patch email. Here's the blurb from the library -

12/01/11 7:00 PM East Columbia Branch

Holiday Madrigal Songs With Camerata Musica Enjoy seasonal music from many countries and traditions with Camerata Musica, a Howard County a cappella vocal group that has delighted audiences for more than 25 years at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Refreshments.

And here's the link to patch -
http://columbia.patch.com/articles/today-in-columbia-seasonal-music-concert-at-east-columbia-library-tonight

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/books-a-million-to-open-41-new-stores-in-november_b41002

So that old Borders by Target is finally going to reopen as a BAM. Click the link for a list with the other stores set to open in November.

I got a flu shot on Sunday and I'm finally over the flu shot hangover. Yesterday was the worst, and leaving work early to take a nap was a great decision. I can't remember the last time I took a nap during the day and I felt so much better afterward.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rich-people-demonized-for-flaunting-their-wealth-are-under-attack/2011/09/28/gIQAcJn4AL_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rich-people-demonized-for-flaunting-their-wealth-are-under-attack/2011/09/28/gIQAcJn4AL_story.html

"Rich people are being ‘demonized’ for flaunting their wealth. Poor dears!" By Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Bright-Sided. This article just made me chuckle. Enjoy.

(link borrowed from Paul)

Here's the most compelling reason I've seen thus far to get a smart phone. http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/change-your-boring-workout-into-a-zombie-story_b39057
People, I might start jogging.

I made kaddo last night by combining two recipes - the pumpkin from this one http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/322446 and the yogurt and meat sauce from this one http://habeasbrulee.com/2006/10/20/kaddo-bourani-pumpkin-with-yogurt-and-meat-sauces/ It's not the same as Maiwand Kabob's, but it's still amazing. I went with the first recipe's pumpkin, because it sounded closer to MK's and used less sugar and took less time, but next time I'm going to try the 3 hour slow bake and see how that turns out. But for something that only took about an hour, this was fantastic.

I'm so sick of deleting spam messages here on lj. How do the other social networking sites not have this issue? It's getting to be 2 or 3 every morning that I have to go through and delete, and I don't post very often or have a large audience, so I don't know why I'm even hitting the spammer's radar. 

Work is driving me nuts today and I'm just a big ball of raar right now.

http://tv.yahoo.com/slideshow/759/photos/1
Buffy cast slideshow - then and now.