This summer, I went to Kauai for the first time. It was beautiful, lush, and welcoming; the most casual, chill place I’ve ever been to (basically one road circles the island) with the most amazing little locally-owned food places. They were staffed with awesome, personable, enthusiastic, hippie types, and stocked with fresh, delicious, local, healthful dishes, drinks, and desserts! I, of course, made the point of getting a smoothie as often as possible – green smoothies! Two of mine were made with a ton of kale, banana, ginger and spirulina. Yum! Now, I’m noticing kale everywhere and I plan to buy a big bunch and make up a crazy green ginger smoothie for myself. What else will I use with kale? Quiche? Pasta? Also, I’ve dubbed this semester Smoothie Semester, where I plan to experiment with fruits and veggies you don’t get in your regular smoothie… and see what happens. For more vegetable info at the library, go here. For great green smoothies go here.

Hello Snippets visitors! This year, the Library Advancement Office has hired me to photograph its Meet the Author series, allowing those who miss the opportunity to see an event to get an idea of what happened during an author’s presentation. Though these photographs have yet to make it to print, technology has granted the Northeastern community the ability to view them, and others from past years, instantly online. If you haven’t yet attended a Meet the Author event (and a strongly suggest you do!), I urge you to check out the Snippets Gallery and the library’s Flickr account, which can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/northeastern_university_libraries/ If you like what you see or if there’s anything you would like to see more of, please feel free to post a comment. I’d love to hear from you!

This Thursday, Brian Tomlinson, who holds an undergraduate degree from Northeastern in Business and Finance will be speaking about his international co-op experience. He is a vice president and fixed-income portfolio manager with PIMCO in Stuttgart, Germany. Brian is also active in business development and public speaking and serves as PIMCO Europe’s relationship manager with European official institutions. His whole international journey started when he took a co-op job in Stuttgart, Germany back in 1989. For anyone who is interested in international co-op or global relations, Tomlinson’s visit to Northeastern is something you won’t want to miss! The event will be held in 421 Snell on October 29 at 12:00 pm. Lunch will be served! To RSVP for this event, please contact Ketty Rosenfeld @ 617-373-3466, k.rosenfeld@neu.edu, or Maria Carpenter @ 617-373-2821, m.carpenter@neu.edu.