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Sergio, stop hiding behind your 'jambina' alias ;) - awd (canoeist in th wild)

heh. when you click on the 'Images for sergio rivera ayala' link, it changes to a picture of Griffey. - Christa

I AM GRIFFEY - jambina

And yet I've sat with both of you simultaneously around fire pits. Was I dreaming? Was it some sort of strange Fight Club moment? - Hedgehog

If you have to ask... what is the first rule! - awd (canoeist in th wild)

This just made my whole freakin' day. - Catherine Pellegrino

\o/ - SAM

:) - Pete #TeamMonique

Yippeee!!! - lris

Hooray! - ellbeecee

YAY! - holly #ravingfangirl

rock - jambina

FABULOUS! - RepoRat

Wonderful! - The LB: #TeamMonique

Yay! - John (bird whisperer)

Hazah!! - Jen

Whew! - Chelle Chelle Ro Ro

*dances the F cancer dance* - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

This is the best news all month! - Ha3rvey (on hiatus)

Wonderful news! - LoisMarketing

so much exhaling going on over here. fantastic news! - Marie

Yahoo . Always good news :) - Peter Dawson

Thanks, all. The type of tumor I have is usually non-cancerous so I wasn't *that* worried, except in the past week I convinced myself that maybe I did have cancer because FML when it comes to medical issues. So it's a great relief. - Sarah G.

What a relief! - Stephan Planken from iPhone

So glad that was the result! Knowing it isn't likely, and really knowing it isn't can be such a huge difference. - Jennifer Dittrich

Fandamntastic! - Betsy #TeamMonique

HURRAH! - Ruth Kneale

Excellent news, Sarah! - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Wonderful news! - Anne Bouey

That is the best news I've heard in ages. - laura x from BuddyFeed

that's terrific news!! - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

Great news!!! - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

Huzzah! - Louise "Weezy" Alcorn

Oh, so much yay, here. So glad to hear that, Sarah. So very glad. - MoTO #TeamMonique

Yay! - Heleninstitches

I want to like this again, every time i see it come back through my feed. - WebGoddess

It do. It have been burning me for 5 hours! - Chocolate Connoisseur

Zahra must be the only one happy to get back to her routine! Hmph, dogs! - Jenny from Android

Very much so. - Jed Harris-Keith from iPhone

Yes. - Hedgehog from Android

girl, preach - MoTO #TeamMonique

This is awesome. - Betsy #TeamMonique

The best part is the image search. - Heather

http://www.youtube.com/watch... and http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Betsy #TeamMonique

Oh, the green and white paper! - laura x

When I was a kid my sister and I had a HUGE stack of those punch cards to use as scrap paper, from data my parents had run in grad school. #memories - Catherine Pellegrino

heh. We did too, Catherine, only from dad's work. :) He'd bring home stacks of the computer paper for us to draw on too. - ellbeecee

For years, I had all the roughly 3x4 cards I could ever use--because we deliberately destroyed the useful portions of circulation cards at Doe Library once the books came back (the only legal way to avoid FBI searches at the time), and the center half of each Hollerith card wasn't actually used for anything. So we cut off the two ends, shredded those, and whoever wanted the blank portions could have them. - Walt Crawford

Best of luck! - Soup in a TARDIS

*sets light in window*... what Soup said. - MoTO #TeamMonique

So how's the final push on the Friday project going? - Heather

Um. My brain gave up on my family things and I went to urgent care last night with the worst case of pinkeye the urgent care doc had seen in years (on its first day!). Sometimes the best way to push through is to let things go? I'm going to be okay, but I had to reprioritize. Heal first, Do All The Things some other day. - Marianne

http://m.friendfeed-media.com/2f4a154... (not mine and not an academic or a librarian, but someone I work with). - Laura Norvig

oh. Even THAT drawer isn't like that. *twitch* - ellbeecee

I can think of a SLIS faculty at a certain alma mater who could use a visit.... - Hedgehog

and recording engineers and musicians. WE NEVER THROW OUT ANYTHING. not if we can make an interesting noise with it, anyway. - Joe Silence

I think part of why I've moved every four years is because it's easier than cleaning my office? (for serious, if I stay here 10 years, my office will look like that!) - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

Add a typewriter, several crates of newspapers, and some library books to that picture, Laura, and you'd have the office of the librarian who just retired from MPOW in May, and finally finished emptying his office in August. - Catherine Pellegrino

Holy crap. Although I worked with someone who was worse. Seriously! And her car looked the same way. I can't even begin to imagine her house. I look at the two piles on my desk and despair that we feel the need to create so much paper. I rejoice that we are going to an online payroll system so I don't have that clutter to deal with anymore. - Running Slow

When I was in law school, there was a story going around about a certain faculty member who was read the riot act by the fire marshall about the condition of her office (Sarah, did you ever hear that one?). Never knew if it was really true, but I wanted to believe! - Elizabeth

i love you, mita williams. - jambina

This is lovely. - Meg V. Meg

Much thanks - and I love you too! - copystar

Awesome. Thanks for this. - Cameron Neylon

RepoRat, I feel awful that I totally glossed over that you had a wretched day. I'm going through some pain myself at MPOW and I'm feeling it too. Stay strong - copystar

don't feel bad! a lot of my ish is my own damn fault. - RepoRat

*pricks up ears* - Catherine Pellegrino

These are so damn useful. I won't do an event-reg any other way. - RepoRat

I'm just thinking, we use a Google form to collect instruction stats, including assessment data. If I can rig it up to email back at least some of the results to the librarian who completes the form, that'll help them follow up on their own assessment plans. - Catherine Pellegrino

HOLY CRAP there's a tute on sending reminder emails. https://developers.google.com/apps-sc... I am SO doing this for the brownbag series. Doing it by hand is FTL. - RepoRat

I'm so happy to see this. The potential for Google App scripts is HUGE for libraries (especially those whose IT dept won't let them touch servers). One example: let's embed the library into your document : http://onswebservices.wikispaces.com/GoogleA... - copystar

Bing translation gave me this: Khdawikili Ms advantage - Janet:#TeamMonique

Google translate says: Mrs. Khdavkyly good - Betsy #TeamMonique

What amused me almost as much as the assignment itself, was the two kinds of reactions to the assignment amongst my classmates. Half of us said, "COOL!" and ran out and learned stuff. The other half FREAKED THE HELL OUT. "What should I do? How long should the paper be? What kinds of topics do you want? etc. etc. etc." To his credit, Dr. Carr steadfastly refused to answer such questions. - Catherine Pellegrino

*grin* That's spectacular. - Jenica

Love it! - Kirsten

I'm still trying to decide if I'm most proud of that assignment, or the one where I built a working mySQL database, and web interface to same, in Notepad. - Catherine Pellegrino

You reassure me -- it's not just my students who have ambiguity freakouts. Because OMG it's driving me bananas. I shall stick to my guns, however. - RepoRat

Oh, please do stick to your guns, RR. It's good for them, as Barbara says. - Catherine Pellegrino

RR- it happens here too. It's beginning to effect marking; absolute clarity needed at all times it seems. - Pete #TeamMonique

Since I'm not faculty-of-record for anything, it doesn't affect me as directly, but some of my worst moments are when the fear of ambiguity is coming, not from the students, but from the FACULTY. If I could magically eliminate all "no sources more than 5 years old" requirements from assignments, BOY HOWDY WOULD I EVER. - Catherine Pellegrino

yep - maʀtha

What an awesome assignment and the response reminds me of my colleague's reactions to ambiguity. - Galadriel C.

To be fair, I think dr. Carr left out an important part of his assignment. I read it as, "go out and learn something. And then tell me about it. And then I will grade you." Accepting such an assignment with joy depends upon having faith in the professor not saying, "sorry, you failed to adequately read my mind." Having seen plenty of assignments where ambiguity is a bug rather than a feature, I'm sympathetic to those student who heard Dr. Carr's assignment and thought, "IT'S A TRAP!" - bevedog

Okay, fair enough, Steve. But the assignment was given at the end of the semester, after we'd all had 2-3 months to get to know Dr. Carr and, presumably, trust him not to screw us over. (And believe me, he was not the type to do so, at least not to a student putting forth a good faith effort.) - Catherine Pellegrino

Yes, I understand, and I would have reacted as you did. But I have more sympathy than I once did for students who feel the classroom power differential more keenly, or who have grown up feeling that teachers and parents and other authority figures have held them to a hidden standard which they have always failed to live up to. - bevedog

Yeah. I would have loved that assignment, but I come from Academia. My heart is with you, but my brain is trying to learn to make room for Steve's point. - laura x

Some of us can be both thrilled by such an assignment and screwed over mentally by it all at the same time, even. Hard to undo decades of operant conditioning around grades.... and the even more societal decades of operant conditioning about what grades, etc., mean. - Marianne

Is this going to be on the test? - OMG 404 Joe

Let me count the times faculty have said "can I see an example of X?" - sabbatical apps, tenure statements, grant proposals. Grown ups who should know better have problems with ambiguity, too. Silly people. - barbara fister

I got no problem with learning from example. It's flailing I can't get behind. - RepoRat

Yeah, there's something qualitatively different between "can I see an example of how others have solved this problem" and "what do you want?" but I'm having a hard time putting my finger on it. It's...determining scope, maybe? Or getting a feel for tone? Anyway I'm not sure it's precisely analogous. - Catherine Pellegrino

Some of it is dependence on authority figures, maybe? Students who go out and look at a bunch of librarian conference presentations on SlideShare to see what they're like are taking appropriate initiative. Students who pester me with "but what do YOU WANT me to talk about?!" are missing the goddamned point altogether. - RepoRat

^^^ not hiring these people. I suppose scaring them that way won't help, though. - barbara fister

oh. see, I didn't think about something to wear. I just turned multi-touch off for the apps I use a stylus to write/highlight (though I agree with your post nonetheless :) ) - ellbeecee

Seemed like sometimes my palm would still be the part of me that got registered, so a mark would appear wherever I first touched the screen. Or maybe I'm just extra uncoordinated. :-) - lris

I go through this all the time as I look for solutions in my own work. (I fake my way through life, thanks to the effective use of Google.) I just might have a little bit of natural librarian in me... - Julian

When I used to show people how to search article databases and it was one of those searches where you just couldn't think of right words (like in your case) (or education topics that are just impossible to pin down), I'd click on an article and explain that, even though I knew that article wasn't what we were looking for, I was going to use it to find the right words to point me in the... more... - Betsy #TeamMonique

Yeah, I do that all the time, too, Betsy. And I teach it. And somehow I hadn't realized until recently that that's not just something that baby researchers need to do. It's something researchers do. - lris

Yep. Because you need to think about the terms before you can actually do the fancy search! - Rachel Walden