A door slammed in my face

...So I'm looking for a window now.

I'm typing this at the library here in town: I've just been enquiring about getting a volunteer position helping out with the summer reading program for the kids department... No such luck: The children's librarian told me very politely that they take volunteers "only for large events like our Teddy Bears' Picnic", and that they have all the help they need for the smaller projects. Translation: We're trying to keep out the pedophiles, even if that means shutting out perfectly harmless decent people.( Rant cut for language. Don't click on this unless you know me very well.... )

So, my next step is to go to the Town Hall and see if they have any postings for job openings at the library. After I do a little shopping therapy downtown: I'm getting one of my birthday presents for myself, namely that set of "Sandman" figurines I saw at Larry's Comics a couple weeks back.

Edited at 9.34 p.m. to add: I forgot to add my "[ranting]" tags in the right places. Sorry about that, folks!

"Matrix" Fannishness: I saw that coming...

I came home and turned on the computer to check my messages/LiveJournal friends page, when I found this waiting for me:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/matrix_fans/57957.html

I thought maybe it was a false alarm, but then I went on the MxO site and found this:

http://thematrixonline.warnerbros.com/web/live/news_display.jsp?id=052605_MorpheusDeath

I saw that coming. Maybe it was the close call/false alarm/red herring that Paul Chadwick and company threw past us, when it looked like the Merv was going to be the first canon casualty. I don't know why I saw that coming, but I did.

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