Dec 22
This morning, at the RefDesk, I helped one of our international students with a computer/printing problem. He couldn’t get any of his grad school application paperwork to print out. After messing around with the system, I was finally able to get everything to work for him. He bowed and thanked me profusely before leaving and then a few minutes later, he and his girlfriend came back to the desk with a bottled coffee drink as a thank you gift! Awww! SO sweet!
I thanked them and told them they really didn’t have to do such a thing because I love messing around with the computers and helping out. He insisted I take it and thanked me again. :) So nice! I hope he gets into grad school- we need more thoughtful people like him in academia! ;D
Dec 09
I ran across this great old quote from Sandra Cisneros this afternoon while helping someone research a paper topic:
“Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt. Not this way, every evening talking to the trees, leaning out my window, imagining what I can’t see.”
Feb 20
Lessig is considering a run for Congress…
hot damn, that would be just way too cool.
okay… doin’ my part:
Dec 05
Ran across an interesting article at lunch today called The Future of Reading by Mark Pilgrim. Actually it’s more of a play, in six acts, commenting on DRM and eBooks. It’s essentially a mashup of Jeff Bezos’ Open Letter to the Authors Guild, the Amazon Kindle Terms of Service, Steven Levy’s Newsweek article on the Kindle, Orwell’s 1984, and Richard Stallman’s ‘The Right to Read.’ Well done sir.
Jul 27
Wow- what a crazy week! I’m SO excited- on Monday, I was offered the position of Information Commons Librarian in Library West at UF. It is a faculty/tenure-track position in the Humanities & Social Sciences Services Dept. of the library. Library West (dubbed “Club West” by the students ::grin::), has a brand new facility there and lots of work to do. :D I can’t wait to work with all the wonderful folk I met a few weeks ago at the interview. This is such an amazing opportunity for me and I can’t wait to get started on August 20th! Wheeeeeeeeeeee! :D
Jul 03
This was in the VRC mailbox when I got back from vacation on July 2. What a nice letter from Kim, Moira, and Sandra. I love the part where they say “You demonstrated amazing patience and good humor through all the vicissitudes involved in building our conference web site.” “Vicissitudes” – LOVE that word! We never get a chance to use that one enough these days! ;)
Anyway, I had no idea that they would send me such a nice note. It, along with the cool vase from Ann Lindell, totally made it all worth it in the end. I certainly learned alot and am def. ready for the next time, if there is one! :D
Click the image below to see the whole letter…
