brightly colored food

I’m just over a week away from leaving San Francisco, going to Iowa for a couple of weeks before heading on to grad school in late June. Next Wednesday (5/29) I’m having a little going away thing at An Bodhran, a bar by my place in the Lower Haight, from 6 to 8 PM. If you feel like stopping by and saying hi/goodbye, it would be great to meet up, even if it’s for the first time.

Do you ever stop to think about how many cubic feet of stuff you own, and what, if anything, this says about you as a person?

I have far too many books to reasonably transport to and from school, so I’m boxing them all up and leaving half in storage. It’s a surprisingly emotional process, trying to figure out which books to take, which to leave, and which to give away. If you’re a bibliophile and want to keep better track of what you own (and what you loan), check out Readerware. The app lets you type in the ISBN numbers for your books (generally above the barcode on the back cover) and it goes online and downloads all the metadata for your books from sites like Amazon and the Library of Congress, storing it in a searchable/browseable database that sits on your computer. Or you could get really slick and put it online to start a booklending program, or just show off your good taste.