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Inscription

Last Wednesday Christian Lander was in Madison for the Wisconsin Book Festival. I had a critique in my web design class so I had to miss it. However my friend, Kris, went and she picked up a signed copy for me. He spelled my name wrong though but it's okay. Suppose if I were a Spanish male it might be spelled that way. I have an uh...fond memory of my 7th grade Science teacher asking me if my name was pronounced "'Jah-may' or "Jamie like a boy." It was around that time that some of my friends started Spanish so I did get used to responding to "Hi-may." So thanks for bringing back junior high memories, Christian. I won't even get started on high school. And thanks for the Ugly Office Sweater shout-out.

Tuesday night, I went to pick up some web design books on hold for me at the Pinney Library. I had removed SWPL from my online hold list. There were 69 people ahead of me on that list - thank god, I have my own copy now. The librarian, a man in his 30s, asked me if I still wanted "Stuff White People Like." I said no and felt silly since out of context the title sounds kind of weird. But then he asked me if it was based on that blog and when I said yes, preceded to talk about peacoats. As I left he was asking the other librarian is she's heard of the blog. She had....