I don’t think any of us went into 2025 thinking this would be an easy year, and boy wasn’t it. Rather than restate our collective challenges, I’m going to stick to my own little life and keep it short with bullet points and pictures. I’ll also list as many positives…
I gave a little informal presentation about the Stuart Semple / Anish Kapoor feud earlier today. It was a lot of fun. Maybe you’d like to see the slides.
Actually officially announcing on here that I sold my house just north of Pittsburgh, bought a 120-year-old house in Maine, and started a fully-remote library job (truly, a unicorn of a thing in this field) over the course of just a little over two months at the beginning of this year. TLDR: It’s going well.
How I, an immunocompromised person, am navigating life right now. With some frustrated opinions thrown in.
I want to tell you about my take on the New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day recipe. The things I have to add to the discussion: 1) a couple of hacks for people who, like me, do not have a kitchen fan that vents outdoors (I promise I’ll explain why this matters) and who like at least a little bit of whole grain in their bread, plus 2) photos of some of the steps they don’t show as clearly in the book. I’m still experimenting (always!), but I have a base recipe/approach that I like and that I think is good enough to share.
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.
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’m on the other side of the state to attend Code4Lib this week. This is my third Code4Lib, and it just keeps getting better every year! If you aren’t here, but you’d like to see the talks (starting tomorrow morning, Tuesday), there will be a live stream on the Code4Lib…
