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They make quilted gold lamé #totebags . Man, I have been going to the WRONG conferences.
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#totegood
- Julian
wait. can you get the mustache tote in the bright carnival colors quilted with subtle sparkly thread? best of all worlds?
- t-ra: not givin up
Bought a 50-lb. bag of Dog Chow this week. Frodo has now decided he doesn't like it. (ETA a not good update below.)
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:(
- Jennifer Dittrich
:( Could you entice him with a touch of cooked chicken throughout his serving?
- Janet:#TeamMonique
We've been mixing in some of Tucker's special food, and that has helped some. While ago I gave him about 1/2 cup of Tucker's food, and I (ETA um, no, FRODO) gobbled it down. Of course. We might have to try some chicken or something.
- LB: #TeamMonique
you gobbled it down???
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Um, no. Tried to fix that, and the computer hiccuped.
- LB: #TeamMonique
whew....just making sure
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Boo! Spock is the same way with the dog food Adrian's been buying recently. I usually give him an egg or splash some milk on it and he'll eat it. Sometimes, I have to give him peanut butter of pan leavings to really get him to eat it.
- Anika
Way back when, gravy and carrots would convince my dog that she was dining on the finest gourmet dog chow available. Without gravy and carrots, she'd even ignore a steak. But then, she was a strange dog. Loved kids, women and most men. Hated wingback chairs, lightbulbs and puddles. Loved root vegetables, ignored cats and rabbits. Expert fly-hunter, terrified by her own flatulence. I miss that stupid mutt :-)
- Le Slip Anglais
from Android
Aww Slippy. What was her lineage?
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
German Shepherd, possibly Labrador cross. She was a rescue dog.
- Le Slip Anglais
from Android
Find some inexpensive beef or chicken broth to pour over the food. When Stormie is being picky, this always works for her.
- Friar Ticket to Ride
Cheap powdered parm cheese ... A tiny bit works for us, he can't just eat it and ignore the chow, and it doesn't make the food (my dogs don't seem to like wet kibble)
- Shannon - GlassMistress
I've started to add warm water to their Purina One dog food and they like it alot better.
- Paulette
Well, today we found out the reason Frodo hasn't been eating well is that he has a softball-sized mass in his stomach, and it looks like things have spread to his chest and liver. He's not in any obvious pain, for which I am grateful. But we will be making some tough decisions.
- LB: #TeamMonique
:((
- Spidra Webster
Oh no. :^(
- Friar Ticket to Ride
I'm so sorry.
- Running Slow
Laura, I am so sorry.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
I'm sorry.
- Eric - seven eleven
Oh no :(
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
oh, i'm so sorry, laura. *skritches Frodo*
- holly #ravingfangirl
Thanks, y'all. This sucks.
- LB: #TeamMonique
from Android
*hug*
- Julian
*hugs*
- Anne Bouey
Oh no. I'm sorry, Laura. *hugs*
- Russian Space Lizard
*hugs*
- Betsy #TeamMonique
from FFHound(roid)!
so sorry :(
- Tamara J.
Oh man.
- Marie
Missed this completely. So, so sorry.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Sorry to hear that, Laura. :-(
- Stephan Planken
This is the part I HATE about having animals, but I do know I couldn't trade my years of dog kisses, love, etc. for even this one horrible, horrible moment. SUCKS BIG TIME!!!
- Jenny
:( so sorry LB *hugs to ya'll* if you need anything that i can do let me know
- Sir Shuping is just sir
That is so tough LB, I'm so sorry you are going through this.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
*hugs* to you and *ear scritches* to Frodo
- Kirsten
Thanks again, folks. He's sitting in his chair now.
- LB: #TeamMonique
from Android
Its Official! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Thanks for putting up with me ... its been a long couple of months!
- Shannon - GlassMistress
That's exactly what I was hoping this clip would be. :D *hugs* YAY!!!
- Hookuh Tinypants
Yay!
- Lnorigb
Yay!!!!
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
BEST. NEWS. EVER!
- MoTO #TeamMonique
*pops the virtual bubbly*
- Julian
Great news, Shannon!
- Anika
*Snoopy dance*
- t-ra: not givin up
Awesome!
- LB: #TeamMonique
Yay!! :)
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Good news!
- Anne Bouey
great news
- WarLord
Woohoo!
- Die Leberwurst
Fantastic!
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I always get confused a bit about the seven layers in the model. I know that they exist, and generally what they are, but it is always difficult to articulate them to someone else.
The four-layer model is usually easier to explain.
- Julian
are we talking about salad? because I love 7-layer salad ;)
- maʀtha
I was thinking dip!
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
OSI model. Basically, how the Internet works. I had never heard of a seven-layer salad, and a seven-layer dip would be a good comparison to the OSI model. Mmm... dip... *Homer drool*
- Julian
Well...the Internet doesn't really work using the OSI model. (RLG had a network that *did* use the OSI model, but TCP/IP, the heart of the internet, mixes-and-matches levels. I'm not an expert in this area, but this is how I understand it... Believe it or not, at one LITA National Conference, the Fuzzy Match Interest Group put on a musical rendition of the OSI layers.)
- Walt Crawford
OSI is a general guideline that usually breaks down at layer 4.
- Eric - seven eleven
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EBSCO and Ex Libris slapfight. Pass the popcorn. http://t.co/wdZFuT5Gfb
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Like Terrell Owens, I have my popcorn ready.
- Julian
*munch munch munch* (We're in the middle of this: we're an Ex Libris shop, looking to activate Primo Central soon, and the bulk of our database content comes from EBSCO.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
Highly entertaining. But, evidence of exactly why we need to remember and act like we are in the midst of a bunch of business deals, not altruistic nonprofits (even if that is our role - which may also be debatable).
- Lisa Hinchliffe
Yes. One of the things I like best about this is Orbis Cascade Alliance's tone.
- Catherine Pellegrino
If Ex Libris just got the metadata from the publishers in EBSCO's databases directly, then SFX would sort it out, since EBSCO metadata is in SFX. But it'd be nice if EBSCO would play ball a little more.
- Zamms
Now entering The Octagon...
- Marie
What language is that signature from Matti in?
- Joe Boone
Hebrew. Ex Libris is based out of Israel.
- Catherine Pellegrino
I'm not allowed to talk about why we didn't implement Primo at MfPOW a few years back.
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Stephanie, did you sign a non-disclosure document about it?
- copystar
The Orbis Cascade Board of Directors are my new favorite people.
- Jenica
Now that makes sense (concerning the sig.)
- Joe Boone
this rocks.
- jambina
In related news, does anyone know if ebrary content is indexed by EDS?
- Meg V. Meg
not any more. (I don't know)
- DJF
Could someone explain this to me like I'm five, please?
- Andy
EBSCO owns content. Ex Libris would like to include that content in its Primo discovery layer, so that users at libraries who subscribe to the EBSCO products can find it using the library's single search box. EBSCO says, "No. If you want to access the EBSCO metadata, you need to subscribe to OUR discovery layer."
- DJF
Ebsco, like Proquest, is in the position of providing both content and a discovery tool. They are taking the lead in ensuring that their content is best/only accessed via THEIR discovery tool. As a result, Ex Libris's discovery tool can't effectively access EBSCO content. And all commercial entities in the game are failing to play nicely with each other.
- Jenica
(Two of us assessed it about the same at the same time, so you know we must be right. AND AWESOME.)
- Jenica
I support Orbis Cascade's position that if EBSCO and Ex Libris won't play together, then neither of them gets any money. Of course, in this particular case, that's not really fair to Ex Libris, who has no control over what EBSCO lets them see.
- DJF
I'm in love with the fact that a library organization is standing up and, in public, plainly asserting its right as a paying customer to demand better of the industry. Fuck. Yes.
- Jenica
Gotcha. Thanks!
- Andy
Also: discovery layers are serious business.
- Andy
I think EBSCO's fucking this up. They need to build a wall between the discovery business and the content business, and fast. Because if the content business is not indexed in a neutral way, then people using Primo or Summon will not find the EBSCO content. If people don't find the content, it doesn't get used. And that's how databases get cancelled.
- DJF
O_o
- Hedgehog
The timing of this memo is odd as we learned a few weeks ago that EBSCO has agreed to re-do the API. I'm more upset with ProQuest They won't even offer us an API to use with Primo.
- Jen
One comment I've heard regarding this situation is that their library holdings are only a small part of EBSCO's portfolio. Of course you would think Proquest, who has a higher percentage of library content, would care more.
- Elizabeth Brown
It's a good thing I wasn't eating popcorn when I got to "and use sub-standard API" at the bottom of page 2, or it'd be all over my keyboard now. It's like when you're trying *really really hard* to be the unbiased voice of reason in a debate but then a "plus your product sucks!" just slips out there.
- Deborah Fitchett
It would have been handy to have all of pop into view last month when we had Serials Solutions, EBSCO, and ExLibris deliver back to back one-hour discovery layer pitches to our consortium. It was my first full-on vendor experience post MLIS and I was alternately amused and appalled by the EBSCO hard core FUD.
- Heather
Heather, FUD is EBSCO's primary product line. We've all seen that in action.
- DJF
I used to work in a comms unit that supported sales guys and anytime the FUD was rolled out it was a clear sign of a product line in trouble and/or sales reps that didn't understand or respect their audience. Sales rep tactics appear to be a transferrable skill.
- Heather
"there is an inherent conflict of interest when content providers attempt to control a library’s choice of discovery." But since their interest is to make money, as much as possible, and control as many markets as they can, where's the conflict? I'm glad there's pushback, but why would we NOT expect a company to vertically integrate and resist sharing? In some ways its more a conflict of public interest for libraries to rely on these bozos.
- barbara fister
I'm just left saying "This is why you can't have nice discovery tools."
- Zamms
Must say I first read Ebsco's response and it was a very good attempt to cloud Pmatters, I was almost convinced..., shows how much I know about discovery :P Anyway I never quite got why it's always about ebscohost , Proquest does the same. Or is it because their databases have metadata that can be obtained in other ways?
- aarontay
Yes, Barbara, yes. If you're a librarian, Ebsco's position looks ethically sketchy. If you're a business analyst, they appear to have a sound strategy. Ex Libris's positioning of themselves as The Good Guys Fighting The Good Fight for libraries pisses me off, because i don't believe for a second that, if they "win" and Ebsco opens up their data, Ex Libris won't turn around and try to...
more...
- Jenica
Aaron, what is the link to the EBSCO response?
- Joe Boone
All of them here: http://www.orbiscascade.org/index...
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
how did ProQuest / Serials Solutions / Summon get around this?
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
They go to the journal publishers and get the metadata. It's not 100% of say CINAHL, but maybe 90%+ but of course it's very "thin metadata" (ebsco's term), sometimes not even abstract or subject headings and usually no full text. It can make quite a difference sometimes.
- aarontay
Thanks Jackyn.
- Joe Boone
A message went around at my Primo-using library this morning saying that use of our EBSCO full text resources have declined 64% and use of their indexes 73%. I think we'll be looking for this content elsewhere...
- Megan loves summer
phew. well, I can't say I'm sorry to see this chickenshit tactic backfire.
- RepoRat
I like most of my EBSCO contacts, but the guy they had delivering the FUD sales pitch when we looked at EDS last year really turned me off.
- Royce's favorite Anna
Gah! It's Crazy Amy! - http://eater.com/archive...
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CBS 5 Arizona sent a reporter to Amy's Baking Company to get a statement from the owners following their epic meltdown on their Facebook page after being on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. And as expected, Amy and Samy Bouzaglo bring the crazy. While many things about Kitchen Nightmares seem to be fake, Amy and Samy's reaction seems totally genuine. In the bizarre encounter, Amy tells the reporter that the restaurant's Facecbook was hacked and that the FBI is now involved. She tries to hustle the reporter off the premises, but her husband Samy intervenes. Apparently, the two do not agree on how to deal with members of the press. Samy explains that he can't do an interview because "we have a contract with Kitchen Nightmares, and we cannot talk to no press for now." Presumably he has an NDA with Fox. But, as the reporter puts it, "he just keeps talking." He tells the reporter, "There are not only stupid people, there is nice people also."
- Eric - seven eleven
from Bookmarklet
I believe someone needs to call the FBI to see if they are "working with" Amy on her "hacked" Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, and website accounts.
- Eric - seven eleven
Maybe she should work with the CIA on that case of being "misquoted" while she is at it.
- Julian
Um... they're starting to trickle in a bit. I have already been on the phone today.
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I kind of thought that today would be when things would start to come together nicely. I can honestly say that I like my future prospects a lot better now than I did a week ago. Apparently, I have had market value all along. Today, I received a new phone call, made a return phone call (which, in turn, is moving things quickly), and I have a call scheduled for tomorrow.
- Julian
Good luck!
- John (bird whisperer)
Good night, criminals. Try to keep it down.
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Good night, Bosley.
- Tamara J.
OKAY!!!
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
We will hold it down, too.
- Julian
Define "it".
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
All of it.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Dang. I was looking for an exclusion on a technicality.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I have not been successfully prosecuted for "it" so I assumed it didn't apply. I ran with scissors, drank milk directly from the container AND left the toilet seat up. :)
- c.a.j.
The Google Maps walking directions I have from Dupont Circle Metro to Georgetown include: Or take Public Transit (Bus) DID I SAY *BUS*, GOOGLE? NO I DID NOT.
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they're trying to tell you something.
- kendrak
TAKE THE D2. IT IS THE ONLY WAY.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Kendra: As always, Jonathan Richman sums it up best for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Zamms
Jennifer: NO, THERE IS ANOTHER!
- Zamms
Well, yeah, but that one was my favorite. I always preferred to walk down Wisconsin (that's the direction I'd go from my apartment.) I didn't like the walk or shops on M nearly as much.
- Jennifer Dittrich
If you wanted to go the long way, you could swing around the Naval Observatory and then go down that way.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Basically, I'm looking for a decent walk to start and end my day, and Dupont to Launiger Library is one and a half miles each way.
- Zamms
You just going to take P street, then? I'd be tempted to zag down Wisconsin to M and then over, but I just really like Wisconsin AVE. And the kebab place I used to go to, but that's neither here nor there.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I'm going Q to 27th to N. Do you remember the name of the kebab place?
- Zamms
Oop. I missed that you had new digs.
- Julian
I think it was Kebab Kebab? It was on Wisconsin somewhere after Commander Salamander, but before Restoration Hardware, on that side of the street.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Julian: Still the same job. I have an RDA workshop to go to at Georgetown today and tomorrrow. Jennifer: looks like it's closed. As is Commander Salamander, apparently.
- Zamms
Everything else being equal, do you prefer rows, columns, or diagonals?
Stacks.
- Gimminy
I prefer the cell borders.
- Tinfoil 2.0
columns
- c.a.j.
Columnists?
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Hierarchical data structures with contextual pointers. #ThankYouVeryMuch
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Rows...?
- Julian
Rows.
- Meg V. Meg
Give Rhubarb a chance.
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I love rhubarb. Cooking rhubarb sauce right now, in fact.
- Heather Piwowar
from iPhone
Just ate it on top of vanilla ice cream. Bliss.
- Heather Piwowar
from iPhone
THE BEST.
- holly #ravingfangirl
This reminded me of the Muppet Babies: <http://www.youtube.com/watch...>.
- Julian
Give piece of rhubarb pie a chance.
- Joe Boone
Our local ice cream - Valpo Velvet - does a homemade rhubarb sundae.
- Sarah G.
I found a strawberry rhubarb ice cream.
- Running Slow
Oooh Jilly.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
we are having sundaes with balsamic strawberry rhubarb sauce this weekend. I CANNOT WAIT.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Yeah, right. "Valpo Velvet". I still say it doesn't exist.
- sglassme
I just sent you a yelp review. "4 stars. Took one away because it's never open"
- Sarah G.
My phone and e-mail have not been blowing up yet. However, a bit of response has been coming in. Basically, rejection. The rejection will only get easier. Already, I have been told that I am not a good fit for stocking shelves. I can only (im)patiently await more.
Why would you stock shelves? You have serious skills
- maʀtha
My skills are worthless even to me if I am homeless, or heading in the direction of homelessness. At minimum, supplemental employment is a good idea if I can make it happen. However, *any* employment at all is the reality for which I must prepare myself.
- Julian
Oh Julian
- maʀtha
Or you could get another job that uses your actual skills. Even if you were homeless, you could use your actual skills to get a job.
- Meg V. Meg
If you really want a job stocking shelves (which is fine if that's really what you want to do), you will likely have to leave some of your work experience and skills off of your resume/application. In management's eyes, you are probably *overqualified* to stock shelves, thus it's not worth training you, because you are just going to leave for better paying employment somewhere else.
- Meg V. Meg
The message here NOT being that you are now trapped between impermeable levels of jobs that you are somehow exclusively under/overqualified for, BUT that you should seek employment that matches your skills and your interests and your goals. Which you do have. Demonstrably. In spades.
- Meg V. Meg
Well said
- maʀtha
^^^^^ and hugs.
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Vikings unveil pictures of new stadium design | SI Tracking Blog – Tracking MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, and NCAA On Twitter - http://tracking.si.com/2013...
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"Some of the stadium’s proposed features includes what the organization described as the largest transparent roof, which is possible from the first use of clear ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) in a stadium in the U.S. The team said that the stadium would also have the biggest “glass pivoting doors” of any stadium, which will open to the Minneapolis skyline. Groundbreaking for the new 65,000-seat stadium will take place in October 2013, and the new stadium is scheduled to open in the 2016 season. The stadium is expected to cost $975 million."
- SteVe C
from Bookmarklet
I guess they don't want another Super Bowl.
- Julian
Bill came for last weeks outpatient thing. 23,443.82. Holy hell.
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Will insurance cover that?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
About 80%. ... At least there's that. Added to the pending 10k septic repair and well *throws hands up in disgust*
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Oh, Shannon :(((
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Yeah. I think I should have said surrender, not disgust, 'cause I feel sota defeated about the whole thing. We will figure it out, but that doesn't make it suck less, ya know?
- Shannon - GlassMistress
It really does suck, and you really will figure it out. You aren't in it alone, and people can help out. And I meant my idea about fandom beads that I mentioned on the other thread. I've never seen anything like that in bead form when I've been to (admittedly few) cons, and I think they would be really popular.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Being an adult is hard.
- Mary Carmen
All I can say is that I know what it's like, and I feel your pain. If I could, I would hand you a margarita.
- Eric - seven eleven
You will do a lot better than I would ever do. At least you are not 100% on your own through all of this.
- Julian
*hug*
- Pixie
Ack!
- Betsy #TeamMonique
from FFHound(roid)!
Ugh.
- John (bird whisperer)
:(
- Steven Perez
I spent fifty-one hours indoors.
Just in case, since I am alone... I am not looking forward to going out there again tomorrow. (Most of it, anyway.) Maybe not the next day, either. One day or two at a time.
- Julian
I am generally not a fan of leaving the house, either.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Wow. I really *am* that much of an underachiever in life.
Quit beating yourself up, Julian. You're way too harsh on yourself.
- Spidra Webster
What has been hurting me lately is that the conditions I have been dealing with on a daily basis make me less and less motivated to do better for myself, and more aware of the hole I am in. Every single time I look at other options, I feel heavily discouraged and a bit hopeless because I do not have nearly enough of what I need, and what they want. (I feel like I just said this recently.)
- Julian
I think you need to be talking with someone regularly who can give you a reality check. The way you talk to yourself is very harsh so it's no wonder you're demotivated!
- Spidra Webster
I had not updated this document since 2008. It needed a ton of re-vamping before I could even think about using it again.
An entire page got chopped out of this document because my momentum in that particular area has basically dried up, and it would have been tacky to leave in a huge concentration of stuff that I did five years ago that is basically irrelevant today.
- Julian
I would love to be more obvious, but you have probably already figured it out by now.
- Julian
Don't feel bad, I've been staring at mine for several weeks now, and it looks so empty when I tried to focus it down to the relevant bits. The last time I really updated it was 2010.
- Gimminy
I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss something as irrelevant just because you haven't been immersed in it recently; depending on the area, you may still have significant knowledge or thought patterns that are useful and can be called up again or are currently in use in other areas but can easily be transferred back.
- joey
What's the small print?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
I always knew you had it framed somewhere.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
I did wonder who had sent me those plane tickets. It all makes sense now. Sorry I missed the opening, I hope you covered for my absence somehow.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Julian: I agree with joey about not throwing out something so quickly. Five years isn't that long ago.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
If anyone asks me what depression feels like, I'll be pointing them to these posts: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011... and http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013...
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indeed.
- Marianne
Oh, yeah, She nails it.
- Anne Graham
Wow. So much this.
- Jed Harris-Keith
from iPhone
I hadn't seen the second one. She had an amazing ability to put senselessness into words (and pictures).
- Heather
It is amazing to me that anyone makes it through depression.
- Steele Lawman
Word. Add in anxiety, just for fun
- maʀtha
The fish comparison is pretty great.
- Yvonne
Yeah, plus the idea of having to imitate a normal human reaction to things.
- lris
So much this. I had it for about six months in high school. So frightening, yet so dead. Since then, whenever I say to myself, "I'm so depressed," I generally know that actually I am just sad, dissatisfied, and discouraged, because I don't actually have that scary complete lack of feeling that I had in high school.
- Laura Norvig
This was difficult to read, but I needed to read it. There are some weekends when I get home from work on Friday, and make my next venture outdoors on Monday to go to work again. [TMI. :( Bad habit.]
- Julian
That made me cry. It's different from what I've experienced, except for the self-hatred. I've never felt nothing. Dunno if that's better or worse.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
It kind of freaks people out when I say it, but a year like that is what drove me to finally record an album. I got so far into not caring that I figured I didn't need to care anymore about neurotic things or fear of the future.
- Spidra Webster
A few times I've tentatively touched on not caring, but I never got to armored level. It's mostly been the self-bullying and dead fish. I think I've never been as low so I've never had such extremity, but I've been down so long I've learned to muck through.
- Heather
Searching for something really important for my future this evening. I really hate this realization that I have been wasting my time (and possibly my efforts) for far too long. The time for me to make my next move is probably in the past.
Seriously... I am seriously starting to feel the effects of atrophy. I feel like I have actually *lost* skills that I need. Momentum and motivation, definitely. The more I search, the more I feel like I cannot get anything back, or back on track. I do not want to settle. The main influence of said atrophy tends to align with settling for things the way they are, and have always been.
- Julian
I do not want to settle for being a "lifer." I would hate even more for it to have taken a relatively small period of time to have become permanently stuck in place, with little hope of being able to do better for myself.
- Julian
I owe myself better than this. Too bad I am already in debt to too many other people to properly start my life.
- Julian
Trying to make things work just for the sake of making things work is starting to feel like personal failure and giving up. Or, I might be failing by not trying to make things work, giving *in,* and accepting that things will just be the way things are, with me having no control over any aspects of my career. Trying to do better for myself (and others?) has only made things worse where I am, based on how things are.
- Julian
Now I feel like I could have just as easily been talking about divorce. The longer one stays, the harder it can feel to get out. Especially if there are kids, and/or there have not been any really bad incidents that, on their own, warrant getting out of a bad situation ASAP.
- Julian
I have been having a string of naps all morning. Somehow, the dream I was having weaved its way through those naps.
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I love when that happens . . . if it is a good dream, that is.
- Friar Ticket to Ride
It was not the fluffiest dream. A bit unrelated to the overall theme, somewhere in the sequence, I came across a Wendy's that was closed at... 10:50 pm? I thought they prided themselves on staying open late.
- Julian
why we do this. go!
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student just called me to thank me for not letting her give up on my class and for believing in her. you are welcome, student, go out there and kick some ass
- maʀtha
I get to talk to faculty from all over campus about really neat stuff
- DJF
Because I couldn't help it. Lucky me.
- Marianne
showing students the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection to help them find changes in Colorado River's topography before & after the Hoover Dam … so they can build an infographic depicting same. Then showing same students how to search America: History & Life by time period to find articles about CO river between 1920-1940.
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
which is to say, giving students what they need, when they need it. and having them turn info. into something amazing.
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Having people already ask if we are doing a summer reading program because they enjoy it THAT MUCH!
- Running Slow
Student emails to ask if they should accept an interview because they can do some of the database things but not all of them. I say #fuckyeahbuttercup. Student goes to interview next week. :)
- RepoRat
Providing and maintaining the technological tools that help people to achieve excellence in their work. I do not have all the time to do all the cool things, and I wish I had more time to teach how to better use the tools to achieve even more excellence.
- Julian
Because what students can learn to do in libraries might help them CHANGE THE WORLD! (In a good way, we hope...)
- barbara fister
Thank you note from student who successfully got into grad school because of our help.
- GretelSK
Student tells me that the bit of my lecture about how to troubleshoot wifi made her 10 year old PAUSE AT PLAYING MINECRAFT while he listened to it and then told his mum she was really cool and clever to be studying the subject she is...
- Kathryn is Blake in Hindi
I get to help people. I love it when people stop by to tell me they found a job.
- Andy
Can I coin the symbol "!!!=" to mean "is really really NOT equal to"? Eg: "in the public domain" !!!= "in a publicly accessible pre-print repository or report" (http://www.functionalecology.org/view...).
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- Meg V. Meg
And by that I mean, yay.
- Meg V. Meg
open access !!!= open source
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
open access !!!= open format (though the two should be related, IMHO)
- Julian
and open access !!!= openly accessible
- Deborah Fitchett
!!! !!!= ? and the Mysterians?
- Zamms
RT @thecritterroom: There be kittens! http://fb.me/2Yn1DcNQ0
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haha squirmyworms!
- RepoRat
I have been dying for this new batch to show up!
- Sarah G.
mama kitty is beautiful.
- RepoRat
She is! Hope she gets the hang of it.
- Sarah G.
yeah, "don't squish 'em 'cos they squeek" hasn't quite sunk in yet
- RepoRat
eeeeeeeeeeee
- Julian
I have not been watching as much since the Spice Kittens. I shall have to watch more again.
- Julian
It just sunk in how neat this is that Foster Dad John does this. I mean, I grew up with litters of kittens and puppies and calves and foals, but I bet a lot of people haven't seen that. 3 day old kittens? Kinda squirmy and alien looking.
- Sarah G.
these are NOISY squirmyworms!
- RepoRat
I had this idea about three years ago, when I still had more momentum in my career. A book on public computing in libraries. The technology, services, management, and user experience. Could be a general audience, but might be most helpful for public libraries. Is such a topic still relevant enough today, or has this idea's time come to pass?
Or, have I just not looked hard enough for all of the authoritative books that have always existed on the topic?
- Julian
Once again, I need an extra 20 hours per day. At least. Also, I need to eat (more). My energy runs out right when I need to be doing more for myself in order to keep up with... things.
I wonder if there are any local warehouses that are hiring for the overnight shift. I need to do a better job of supporting myself. [ETA: Not UPS. I did that for about ten days about 6.5 years ago.]
- Julian
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