blakspring

Working quite a bit at the public library this summer reminded me of some of the questions I’ve been asked about librarians.  Even with articles such as this one from The New York Times about the “new generation” of librarians, and cool sites that break stereotypes, it is still amazing how many misconceptions there are [...]

On Friday, as I was getting ready to leave work for the day, I got a text message from one of the three work friends who knows about the pregnancy.  The message was “I don’t know how but Creepy Teacher knows EVERYTHING about your business.  I swear I didn’t tell him”.  I mentioned Creepy Teacher [...]

Imagine you are told that the database you work with and need to function at your job, the database that has about 32,000 items in it, was lost during a server move.
Imagine you actually started crying in front of the IT guy after calculating in your head that it would probably take you at least [...]

Sometimes I worry about where humanity is heading.  At least ten times a day I have students asking me if they can borrow a pen or a pencil.  There seems to be a shortage of loose-leaf paper.  Too many stare at me blank-eyed when I tell them to save their work to a memory stick.  [...]

I feel like time has sped up in the last few weeks, and continues to go faster and faster while I try to keep balance.  It seemed like the winter would never end and now I’m in the home stretch for the school year, with responsibilities piling up on me.  My folks have needed extra [...]

Before I leave work each day, I give the library a once over - put books away, gather left-behind memory sticks to sell on ebay, and clear off the tables.  I tend to look over any loose leaf paper left behind, hoping to read something interesting, some juicy gossip.  Unfortunately, I think the young’uns these [...]

I still haven’t come to terms with the fact that in September I will start a new school year without some of my closest friends.  Of course I am very relieved that I still have my job but the reason that I love my job so much is because of these awesome people.  I feel [...]

I was hoping to never write this post but the shiznit is going down in my school.  It was unavoidable given the layoffs and downsizing of everything not affiliated with celebrities, and now it hit my little corner of the world.  Today some faculty members got letters asking them to a meeting tomorrow, and we [...]

I realize that it’s all an illusion, a big tease, but this beautiful spring-like weather has got me smiling.  In a few days it will be back to below freezing and flurries but today I’ve got the window open in the library and I can literally smell April.  Of course the fact that it’s Friday [...]

It turned out that “ski trip” was a bit of a misnomer.  I had known from the outset not to expect a big trail-filled mountain; in fact I had been warned to expect more of a bunny slope.  I suppose it’s my fault for being the eternal optimist and thinking that there’s no way that [...]