Redhaired Future Librarian

Organization

I’ve been spending the day organizing my online life and trying to get through the 19,000 unread email messages in my Outlook. (I subscribe to some high-volume email lists and keep the messages for searching purposes, so I end up with a lot of unread messages. And I still haven’t subscribed to the YALSA and AASL lists.) I realized I hadn’t updated at LISNews since last October– before my MoLib presentation! I rectified that with a quick post. And I added their feed to my bloglines.

I’m also setting up Firefox to open a folder instead of just one link as a homepage. This will remind me to check certain pages every day, and to update my blogs. I would love to find a program, desktop or web-based, that would give me a single blog entry page with a pull-down menu of all of my blogs. I suppose with the APIs of my blog software, I could probably eventually make my own, but I’d rather find one done by someone who knows what s/he’s doing.

Well, back to it. I still have some Gramsci to read and I need to work on a take-home midterm. It’s just so nice to be home for once on a Sunday afternoon.

Change

I finally changed to word press. I was just really tired of the nonsense with movable type. Comments are still restricted, but now, after you comment once, the rest of the comments are automatically accepted. I hope this doesn’t change anyone’s feed subscriptions!
ARGH!  I lost my comments!  Grr.

Tagged by Joy

Joy at Wanderings of a Student Librarian tagged me for the 4 Things meme 2 weeks ago (my world was busy being crazy, so this is the first chance I’ve had to actually DO the thing!

Four jobs I’ve had

• Air Force broadcaster
• Radio DJ
• Associate Producer for local network affiliate news
• Wire news writer

Four movies I can watch over and over

• Princess Bride
• Spinal Tap
• UHF
• Real Genius

Four places I’ve lived

• Las Vegas
• Athens, Greece
• The Azores
• Seoul, Korea

Four TV shows I love

• House
• Numb3rs
• Invasion
• Good Eats

Four places I’ve vacationed
(I’ve not really “vacationed” since we got back to the states.)

• Berchtesgaden, Germany
• Garmisch, Germany
• Leiden, Holland
• Paris, France

Four of my favorite dishes

• Gnocchi ai Quattro Formaggi
• Spaghetti Carbonara
• Good Fortune Wrap from Main Squeeze
• Hummus and pita

Four sites I visit daily (only four!)

• Livejournal
• Blackboard
• 3FatChicks
• ObscureStore

Four places I would rather be right now

• Italy
• Italy
• Italy
• Italy

Continuing Eli’s additions

Four books (or series) I love

• Anything by Jonathan Carroll
• Anything by Holly Lisle
• ” Neil Gaiman
• ” Jodi Picoult

Four video games I can (and do) play over and over

• Zoo Tycoon
• Civilization
• Sudoku
• Four? Who has time for four?

Four bloggers I am tagging
(I’m not going to tag anyone because I’m not sure who has done this already. Consider yourself tagged if you haven’t.)

• You
• You
• You
• You

How am I Doing?

Here is what I hope will become a monthly update on the librarian goals I set for this year.

1. Work on programming. I start my practicum today. I will be spending all day Monday at various schools in the district I live in. My first goal, as of right now, is to set up a reading program for advanced second graders. I want to get to know the librarian and the school before I launch into programming. I also need to do some research and post links and/or citations here.

2. Improve my websites. I have not had a lot of success here. The software I had intended to upgrade to has made some changes and I’m waiting for them to smooth out the problems. Once they do, I’ll switch. This software gives me no way of knowing when someone has posted a comment, yet is extremely vulnerable to comment spam, so I can’t leave comments unmoderated.

3. Start answering typical library-related questions found on job applications. I have a start on this in an essay I wrote for a scholarship application.

4. Get more involved in the library “blogosphere” and stay involved. If I have to, I will schedule time to check bloglines every day. I have not done this yet, but I will take Kris’s advice and set my bloglines as my homepage.

5. Work my weblog study into a publishable article.

6. Identify book review or award committee opportunities. When I signed up for the Missouri Association of School Librarians recently, I indicated that I am willing to read for several of their awards.

So far, not bad, not great. So much of library school is simply hanging in there day by day. I’m taking some very exciting classes that take a lot of mental energy. I’m also involved in a cool project involving webcasting. It keeps me very busy.