We’re rapidly approaching the time for the traditional year-end post, which I’ve been known to skip in recent years—I had a run of several really rough years, there. While 2019 wasn’t without personal challenges and setbacks (and a whole lot of frightening developments in the US and abroad), it brought…
Right now I should be grading or preparing for classes, but honestly I’m three blog posts behind where I wanted to be by now (I haven’t forgotten my WisCon promise to make a post about tabletop roleplaying games) and fighting a pretty nasty headache. So what if I take a…
TLDR: I took two classes this semester, and I’m going to teach at least one, probably 1.5, classes next semester. I’m super psyched about it. I’ll still work for the library where I’m an adjunct, too, but fewer hours per week. I’m still available for full-time hire, if you have data for me to work with.
I usually do a year-end post. That’s not happening in 2017. This year took so much from me, and from people I care about, that I refuse to write about it. But I’d like to write about 2018. Not “resolutions” so much as “plans and goals”—and maybe not even those…
Over the past few years, I’ve come to dread the “what do you do?†question, because what people generally mean is “where do you work?†And it’s awkward when you can’t have that conversation the way they expect.
(UPDATED) This is just a really quick post to say that DLF Forum is in my hometown, this year, and I’d love to meet up with some of my internet-and-conference friends, if travel and conference scheduling makes that a possibility for any of you! I live here, and most of our public transit is downtown-centered; I can come to you, or I can give you easy directions to meet me somewhere if you’re feeling adventurous.
Librarian colleagues, sometimes I find I have been wrong, and when that happens, I feel like I owe it to the profession to confess and recant. Some statements I have made about (primarily academic) libraries, that I will take back, or at least modify heavily, here: “If you own the…
I recently realized that I hadn’t written a post about crafts in quite some time. I never shared the glow-in-the-dark cross stitch I designed and made for my brother-in-law, which, even if I didn’t make anything else, would still be worth a post. And that was over a year ago.…
I always make a post around the end of the year, reflecting on the year I’ve had, or at least setting out plans for the next year. I thought this year was going to be different. 2016 was a year of so much loss and so much pain; what could…
My house smells amazing right now, because I am making my great-grandmother’s Russian spice tea, to bring to my friends’ Thanksgiving dinner. It’s a delightful winter party drink, and it’s also good to make if you have a household full of people fighting a cold. And, speaking of cold and…
