I’ve now been to two trainings at Bird Treatment & Learning Center (BirdTLC). At the first, they talked to us about BirdTLC’s history, about basic bird anatomy and behavior, about the permits that BirdTLC has from the state and federal government, and about how to give presentations about the birds.…
I am starting a new project, and I am super excited about it! So excited, in fact, that I’m writing all about it in my blog before I’ve even gone anywhere with it. :) There’s an organization in Anchorage that serves as a free veterinarian for wild birds. Part of…
I know that Rule 1 of Book Club is “You do not talk about Book Club.” So I mostly won’t. But I like the idea of experimenting with a little bit of readers’ advisory on this blog, since I don’t get to do a lot of that at at my…
I haven’t taken the time for crafting, this year, that I normally do. There was that whole buying a house/getting married on the east coast/nesting thing going on, and I still haven’t dug out all of my supplies, let alone organized them. But I’ve found a little time, mostly while…
I’m sick, this Halloween; I am really hoping the spousal unit gets home in time to hand candy to kids, so I don’t pass on my germs. For that matter, I’m hoping kids come by! We decorated to make the place as obviously-Halloween-friendly as possible, but we live at a…
I have a pet project–maybe it’s the sort of project only a web librarian would find interesting: I am trying to fix the location associated with my campus’s IP addresses. … Which might not even make sense, but wait! I can explain! Go into WorldCat.org, and go into an item…
… and, in the process, I’ve chosen a side in the ereader wars. (I’m not going to talk about ereaders vs. netbooks/iPads/iPhones vs. books right now. I’ve done that, albeit back in the pre-iPad era—and back when I was in love with a product that never actually made it to…
I’ve always liked birds. My parents got me a parakeet when I was really little, and they (birds, not my parents) have fascinated me to no end ever since. My grandmother kept canaries, so maybe there’s something genetic to it; I don’t know. At any rate, I’m not sure I…
It occurs to me that I never posted my schedule. It also occurs to me that, by doing so now, I am pretty much forcing it to change. I’m OK with that. Monday – In Oakland 12-6. Homework for Tuesday thereafter. Tuesday – In Oakland 10-3 and 6-9, usually doing…