a marathon not a sprint, and i never was that good at running

Hello all. I am avoiding a paper, of course. I thought it was about time that i comment on my life in library school for the brief amount of time that I will be still in library school. I have 6 days until I graduate. I say that but really, im not walking so I technically graduate when ever i get my paper and project done which at the rate im going may never get done. Everything is due on thursday so it will get done reguardless of whether it is any good or not.
So events have been a going, I found out several things this week, the most recent is that i think my computer is officially dead. My roomate was watching netflix from it and in his twins words, "it went to the blue screen of death, so we shut it off." and alas it has not woken up yet. There could be worst things though, pretty much everything i needed is on my fash drives, so i guess it can die in peace, it served me well and treated me much better then I did it.
I also found out that the job i had planned on working at this summer can only give me 15 hours a week, because they overestimated thier budget (or something like that) I had a little bit of trouble maintaining a not totally pissed off face while i got this news (a week before my work study runs out) because i asked if i could work there over the summer 2 months ago........and i didnt try to find another temp job because i thought i had one.......basically my life would have been much easier if they had let me know a couple of months ago so i could have talked to the digital library because i pry could have worked there as well..... I dont really know what im going to do, i will probably try to find a crap job to work at in addition to the map gig but it has put a hold on my summer plans of visiting sherlock in oregon, because i have no idea if i will have enough money for rent next month let alone a 1000 dollar plan ticket. things i will need to figure out soon. I may take the bus or train, it would be a ridiculously long trip (like 3 days) but it would be 3 to 4 hundred dollars cheeper.
other news, my roommates moved out this weekend. The one, i honestly pry wont notice that she is gone, but the other i already kinda miss. He is a force that fills a house and the silence that is left is erie.
and last but not least, if anyone out there knows of a special collections/archives job available let me know so i can apply. and actually if you know of anything with any type of data management info processing, info/knowledge management. let me know, i am qualified and ready to find a real job.

update......

Hello all.
You will be happy to know that the poster presentation went off without a hitch. I totally blacked out during my oral presentation but I must have managed to talk about my research becuase I passed :) yay. for those that are curious, i will include my poster below.

Now the semester is closing in on me. It is tough to stay focused. I have a list of stuff that I have to complete before I graduate and it is steadily getting smaller, which you would think would feel great, but it doesnt.

I have been applying to some jobs, but am really sick of getting rejected and dealing with the whole mess that I am thinking about just letting it go for the next couple of weeks and focusing on enjoying what little time I have left in school. The job outlook looks so bleak it really isnt very fun. Also I will be starting all over in a new town again soon enough that I just want to enjoy the people here for a little bit before I run ahead to my life.

I dont really have much to add, I submitted some of my work to the SLIS journal b-sides. I will post the link to it after it has been peer reviewed and published. I am also in a few short minutes going to be peer reviewing another article about digital preservation..... fun I know.
I will be heading off to chicago in a few days to attend the Midwest Archives Conference there and heres hoping I will make some fabulous contacts :)

cheers

just kidding on the poster upload, apparently bloggers dont like pdfs :( I cant get it to upload

How did i get here?

Im sitting in the Library reading about the Colorado Digital Project and I am struck by the thought of how on earth did i get here? seriously? Who would have thought 10 years ago that I would sitting infront of a computer reading about a project i dont really care about to prepare for another project that I dont really care about on easter weekend. Some times I am struck by how ridiculous my life is sometimes. I recently read an article about how the millenials do not have a very good work ethic.....Im amazed at this. Especially considering millenials are the most educated of the generation. We have to have a work ethic and at least in the case of the ones that decide to continue education beyond undergraduate, i think there is something wrong with us. At the very least we are not satisfied with being average, or even at the same level as our parents. There is no way to make it through 4-12 years of school without a work ethic. I work about 60 hours a week most weeks. 20 of actual paid labor, 10 hours of class, 5ish of volunteer work, and I easily put in another 10-30 hours of work in on homework most weeks. more on weeks like this. So i took offence to the article that i read (msnbc article) because it said millenials dont want to work more then 40 hours a week.......well yes, when i graduate that is one of the things I look most forward to, getting to go home at the end of the day and watch a movie if I want. Will it happen....for a few months yeah, then Ill get another job or need to start bringing work home with me (grant applications, or outside research). and in all honesty I will pry spend the first few months reading about the area I live so that I can be more helpful in the research room (an archivist who doesnt know the history of the area they are at is of little help to most researchers). so really the 40 hours a week will likely still be at least 50 while i catch up on my local history. ......Okay this was my tangent. I need to return to Colorado Digital Project again....laters

Poster madness

yes, SLIS it is that time of year, where all of the graduating students are sleep deprived and have a slightly more frazzeled appearence. They all look slightly crazy and they randomly start talking about stuff that isnt acutally part of thier current course work....yep thier poster topic. Perhaps i am only speaking for myself. i most certainly qualify for the above discription. and I must add that I am currently at the Library, yes the crappy library that i spend most of my week at, that the architect must have designed with the idea of ugly bomb shelter/fortress/building that no sane person would want to spend more then 10 hours in per week. Seriously, the building is ridiculous, never have i seen a more unpleasant study place. only poster madness could induce me to be at the library on a saturday morning. id soo much rather be watching penguins of madagascar. I am currently rounding my 40th hour at the library this week :( and i really cant articulate my sadness about this fact. Anyways, that wasnt at all what i wanted to talk about. I have a tendency to ramble on my blog that is probably indicative of how i normally communicate but it is much more noticable in a text format. but i digress, i wanted to share my maps with the blogg world. I spent 7 hours working on them yesterday (map collection actually locked me in the department so i could finish, a new low in my work alholic life) they arnt completely done, i may mess around with the colors but for all intensive purposes they are complete at least content wise. and since they were nearly the bane of my existance i need to share them with as many as possible.
So just incase not every one has talk to me in the last month my poster is about collaboration on digital projects in special collections. I am useing the Liegh Hunt digital collection as an example and sent a survey to the institutions that have hunt holdings to find out conditions for collaboration on this small spread out project. The maps reflect the locations of Hunt holdings.


anyways I better get back to work. bye all

HELLO WORLD

My title makes me reminiscent of my first semester in grad school. Computer foundations and php:( i do not miss that time, but still I will never see the simple words Hello world without thinking about my brief and unsuccessful stint at code writing. Short as it was it instilled a deep dislike to anything that requires .
It is a new semester, my final semester on the journey that is my LIS education. I must say that the semester is starting with a bang. In the course of a week, my IRB application for my research project and my classes have started at the same time. I also had the unlucky fate to dawdle too much during class so i am stuck with the first presentation of the year.....I should be freaking out. I dont think it really has set in though. I am in disbelief of the work i have to do, which should make tommorrow much more interesting. In addition I have found three jobs I want to apply to in the course of the week. One is in Oregon so I could re-join my bff of 10+ years, who so abruptly moved at the completion of her degree. the other two are in St. Louis, which i am not entirely sure how i feel about. I would undoubtedly be shunned for a while because my upper midwest accent prevents me from pronouncing the city in the fashion that the locals usually demand. I met the same issue in KC, though so that doesnt bother me in the least. it would be rather strange to be that far away from the fam and friends tho. We will see, no need to worry about the move until there is a job offer after all. aww well, I need to continue reading about info policy, which is surprisingly delightful. Im always amazed when one of my SLIS classes turns out to be interesting. After that first semester it is always so unexpected to enjoy what you are learning.

cheers