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Cold Snap

Throwback from the spring semester – the doctoral students are weird. listening :: Welcome to Night Vale and Enter Shikari ; watching :: Funny You Should Ask and maybe Pacific Rim at the drive-in this weekend; reading :: Wide Sargasso Sea, The Night Circus, and Lucifer (a spin-off of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman); wanting :: A lobsterContinue reading “Cold Snap”

A new

listening :: Rooster Teeth podcasts and a lot of Pink Floyd; watching :: Prefontaine (Cried my eyes out) and Spirit of the Marathon; reading :: Homeward Bound, Torch, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane (I am close to meeting my yearly reading goal); wanting :: Summer class to be over, and a pita sandwich; working :: On grant research and jobContinue reading “A new”

New Jersey Library Association 2013

The Atlantic is out there, somewhere A colleague and I drove down to Atlantic City early Tuesday morning two weeks ago for the New Jersey Library Association’s Annual Conference. On the drive down (referred to as “pre-conference”), we talked about present jobs, past jobs, library school, and library trends. On the drive back up (“post-conference”), weContinue reading “New Jersey Library Association 2013”

Media Misfits

Media Department Coat Rack listening :: The World Is…; watching :: Out for job postings and Rainbow Rowell’s “big” announcement; reading :: Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls!, A Game of Thrones, and Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity, as well as the rough draft to the YA Librarian’s novel; wanting :: To roll around in the sunnyContinue reading “Media Misfits”

The Tale of Toby

Toby sat three seats ahead of me to my left in Cataloging and Classification. Toby wasn’t even his real name – it was the name he requested the professor call him during the first roll call. Had he just kept his real name, he probably would’ve blended into the background. But no, he was Toby.Continue reading “The Tale of Toby”

Hello, May

(source click through) listening :: A lot of Mastodon in honor of Metal May and The Splendid Table (Which I have fond memories of listening to on my way to into the theatre on Sunday mornings last summer) watching :: Parks and Recreation – WHY DO YOU END THE SEASON LIKE THAT, and the libraryContinue reading “Hello, May”

Expectantly

listening :: to the endless stream of news reports watching :: Dirty Girl and soon the weird, grey-sunny swirl of the sky on my drive down to NB reading :: only journal articles and my final paper rough drafts as this semester winds down wanting :: tonight’s Career Fair to be over, among other things…Continue reading “Expectantly”

And like that, my first semester of grad school is complete

I submitted my last term project of the semester on Friday and it was graded by Monday. Just like that, my first semester of graduate school is complete. I am relieved to get to read again, but anxious to get back to work. One semester down, two more to go.