Still here.  Just busy.  Whee.

Husband got his new Honda Accord 1/14.  Mom's birthday was 2/6.  (Need to mail the card... >.>)

Was something at Christmas to the effect of, "You're an adult now; you can have Oreos before supper if you want to."

Happy Election Day!

Are there greeting cards for Election Day?

So, Tuesday night I picked up my new car.  It's a 2009 Honda Fit, in the "storm silver metallic," which roughly translates to "medium-dark gray."  I got the sport trim, because it was cheaper (and easier) to upgrade the trim than to add on the random stuff we wanted (me: USB port; him: cruise control).  It's a manual transmission.  I'm still stalling in first gear occasionally - mostly at lights, because I'm cautious on the gas.

It's smaller than I'm used to, and you sit fairly close to the front - I'm still figuring out how far up I can park, because I've been way far back in most parking spaces so far.  I learned to drive in a minivan, then had a Plymouth Acclaim for over eight years, so this is very different.  It's tall, though - the smallness is mostly in the length.  It's a hatchback, and the rear seats fold both up and down.  This works well with the twin garbage/recycling cans I have in the back seat.  The cargo space is pretty good even without reconfiguring the seats.

You sit up in it, which is good; cars with seats low to the ground are hard on my knees.  The lower back support is excellent.  The steering wheel has a T pattern for the spokes, which is unfortunate since I normally drive with my hand at the bottom of the wheel, overhanded, but being a manual, I'm having to change how I hold the wheel anyway (switching right to left to accommodate the shifting).  There's a footrest down by the clutch.  Visibility is pretty good, with the size of the headrests being the only occasional problem.  The rear hatch has a wiper.

Okay, so, the USB.  I can plug in my thumb drive, and the radio will find the folder(s) with music and play it - with ID3 recognition, and everything.  The Aux button switches between XM, USB, and CD without haveing to unplug anything.  The volume is a knob (important).

Electric windows are meh to me.  The electric locks still confuse me regarding which way opens and which way closes.  Electric mirrors are appreciated, though.  Gazillions of cupholders.  Two are right in front of the front vents, so if you want a beverage heated or cooled, it works really well.

Heats up pretty quickly.  The engine temperature guage thing actually tells me when the engine is cold.  Shifts smoothly, other than my still getting used to a manual full time.

That's to start...

The husband mentioned that the weather was going to be icky, but he didn't say anything about SNOW.  Argh.

I get my car today!  /dance

I was detoured from my normal route to work by a truck fire on I-88.  O.O

I don't think many, if any, people who don't already know me read this, but I've kept it five or six months, so some general stuff...

I'm a librarian.  I mostly work in circulation (where you check books out and whatnot) and interlibrary loan (getting items from other libraries for our patrons, and sending our stuff to places that don't have it), but I also do some reference work.  I find information categorization fascinating, and have been known to daydream about things like file structures and relational databases.

I play World of Warcraft.  My main is a hunter; I mostly play hunters, rogues, and priests, but I also have a shaman and a warrior getting up there.  I'm not a min-maxer; I spec to play in ways that I find fun.  This means that I have a couple of marksman hunters - heavy enough into the tree that when the 3.0 patch shifts, I won't have to shift any of my non-marksman points to get the new 51-point talent.  I play dagger rogues; the 70 is subtlety, but specialized towards surviveability, and it's fun to farm on her, because she just doesn't die.  My priest is a 33/28/0 hybrid - she can heal in heroics and raids, but can also pull of 600+ DPS in the same.  In mostly healing gear.  My shaman is elemental, with points in restoration, but not any of the healing points.  My warrior is fury, but I mostly play in battle stance (still leveling solo), and I skipped the 41 point talent.  I've tried mages and warlocks, but haven't kept any.  My druid will be deleted to make a death knight.  My paladin got transferred off the server when it was free to make room for the shaman.  I've done goblin engineering, mooncloth tailoring, dragonscale leatherworking (on two characters), potion alchemy, and swordsmithing.

I also write fiction.  Nothing published; it's mostly for my sanity.

I play Dungeons & Dragons, and run a campaign off and on.  I tend to play rangers or scouts or clerics.  Usually NG.

Married, two cats.  Siblings.  Broad musical tastes.  Mostly read fantasy and biography.  Play piano (not as well as I used to).  History M.A., library M.S.

Ok, so there's stuff I'm inordinately proud of, even if I don't bring it up.  Among them:

• 790 on the GRE analytical section.  The section doesn't even exist now, but it was basically logic.
• Going through a whole year of calculus with a TI-36X solar calculator, when the rest of the class had graphing calculators, and I finished the year with the highest average.  (I was the curve in trig the year before.)
• The only B on my high school transcript is in gym.  (And, quite frankly, it was entirely because I suck at volleyball.)  (Yes, I was valedictorian.)
• I have kick-ass siblings.  I sometimes talk about them too much.
• I'm second in command of a World of Warcraft guild which turns 4 this Christmas; I'll have been in it for 3 years in November, and I've been an officer for about 2.3 years.  We may be the oldest large, stable guild on our server.
• It's irritating, but I'm routinely mistaken for 16-18.  I'm 28.  (Irritating because I work in academia.  No, I'm not a student.)

And, totally unrelated, MY CAR IS BEING BUILT TODAY!!  Actually, since it's being built in Japan, and they're 13 hours ahead of me, it might already be built!  I'm getting a 2009 Fit.

Release date for Wrath of the Lich King is apparently 11/13/08.  :D :D :D