9/25/2002

 

How cool is this? Send Christopher Reeve a birthday card and an anonymous donor will donate $1 to Reeve's paralysis foundation. Not a hoax - this is snopes.com approved! Of course, since his birthday is TODAY you better act fast! :)

8:25 PM

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9/17/2002

 

We're back! The wedding was positively beautiful, and the bride was absolutely gorgeous. (No bias at all of course. :) ) The weather was very nice the whole time, if windy, and we discovered that we rather like the Cape. We don't particularly like driving 15 hours to get to the Cape, but who would? Note to all travelers: *(*#! online maps. Get a print map. If you must use online mapping services, compare 2 or 3 of them before you set off. That way they won't send you in the completely wrong direction and cause you to drive in a big hour-long circle in the dark and fog before having to call Uncle Robert at 11pm to ask how the hell to get to the town you should have been at a half hour ago. Also know that AAA triptiks will NOT warn you about rotaries - you have to figure out for yourself which way to go off them.

But at any rate, we had a really good time. We got to have dinner with Sue and Michael which means I finally got to MEET Michael, and of course I liked him right off, which means Sue chose well. :-) We had a blast. We got to explore the Cape some, walk on the beach, and shake our heads at the idiot Yankees who were actually in the ocean when we were wearing jeans. I got some real, delicious New England clam chowder (although I also had some lousy chowder) and good bagels. And of course I wasn't at work, which was wonderful! :) The music Brian put together was great and the slideshow impressed everyone - a big hit. The wedding went off with barely a hitch. (Pictures forthcoming!) Jamie and Jeremy are now off enjoying their honeymoon, and I hope they're having a wonderful time.

And now I have to return to the real world, which means I have to put in the pile of interlibrary loan requests on my desk. Later y'all...

2:55 PM

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9/08/2002

 

Well, I'm obviously doing a great job keeping up this blog! Honestly, I've just been too damned busy at work, and by the time I get home I don't want to look at a computer again. (I haven't been checking my home email often either.) I'm trying to become library coordinator, train someone to be systems administrator, teach a regular class, and incorporate high school students into our library's services, all on top of my regular job, which is at its busiest this time of year anyway because of all the library instruction I do. I've spent home time picking out readings and assignments for the class I'm teaching, and I'll be grading papers while in Cape Cod next week. Which trip has involved plenty of preparation in itself. Who has time for anything else?

What was that about high school, you may be wondering. Aren't you a college librarian? Yes, I am. However, this fine university *snort* has seen fit to partner with a new charter high school. The high school is meeting on our campus, eating in our cafeteria, using our gym and using our library. Do we get one extra cent for this? No, of course not. The university can't pay for it's current college programs, much less add money for this. So these poor kids are stuck with a library that has NO resources geared to a high school curriculum, and NO librarians who know a damn thing about high schoolers. (I'm serious. Only one of us has ever worked in a non-college library, and it was 30 years ago for the one that has.) Supposedly this high school is eventually going to build its own facilities, we'll see. I don't appreciate being made a high school librarian - I came to a university precisely because I didn't WANT to work with younger kids. Nothing against them, I just relate much better to college students and adults. But my sense of duty or something won't let me just say screw the high school kids - so I've made a web page for them and am consulting with real high school librarians to try to come up with some resources to put on the page. And I've done 4 library instruction classes for them already. They don't pay me near *(*#ing enough.

Oh, and the actual course teaching is going OK so far. I don't think I've kept them the entire class period yet, so they darn well oughta like me! I'd probably actually enjoy it if I wasn't preparing for class the night or sometimes the hour before. Or even if I'd had some advance notice and could have prepared some over the summer. We'll see how things go.

9:20 PM

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