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

interesting archives things

Hey guys, check these links out. the First is a site that shows some of the audiovisual material that the NARA has had digitized. those that like history will enjoy it. the second is the agreement between NARA and Amazon.

http://www.youtube.com/user/usnationalarchives#g/c/C6FCE97A8D7B07B7

http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/foia/gov.nara_20070701_from.pdf

strange strange strange

Hello all. It is the end of the semester which explains my long break from the blogging world. Plus i have started dating someone so that has eaten up what little spare time i have. Before you get to excited, im pretty sure it is going to end relatively soon so keep the knickers from twisting. Hes a nice guy but Im a friad that we just dont care enough about each other to make it through the terribly long break from school. We have only dated acouple of weeks and it has been two of the busiest weeks of the semester for both of us so weve spent very little time with each other. Im beginning to notice some of the same patterns that I always begin to see when i begin dating someone and this time, i think im going to end it before i get hurt. I mean honestly if i am already questioning whether or not he has feelings for me, he is obviously not making me feel special enough. Plus Ive already reached the quota of platonic male friends in my life, it really is an all or nothing situation at this point.
To address what my dearest besty said to my last post. "Love will come when you stop looking for it" I honestly havent wanted a boyfriend for over a year and actually i didnt want one when the catastrophy known as ry showed up in my life either. he showed up and my life changed. Since then random people have just asked me out. I havent chased anyone aside from the catastrophy. so your response is unfounded. The current guy asked me out and i kinda liked him, but i still didnt want a boyfriend. hes just there.
Library Land....well i am working on my paper about what i want to do with the rest of my life career wise......yeah no clue which is why i am writing this. ....well whatever, im hungry so i will check you later.

hmmmm awkward

hello world! so i thought it would be a good idea to call up the boy i had a date with a couple of weeks ago to hang out. I had told him that we would be better as friends but i would like to hang out again with him to get to know him better.....im now trying to figure out why. He is a terribly nice guy, but once again i ended up talking about library science crap....and it once again ended awkwardly... I think he might have thought this was a date. which is not what i intended at all. i thought since he is a 3L he would have work to do and we could hang out at bruggers and work and drink coffee and chit chat as needed. yeah that plan did not go well. he came, but did not bring stuff to work on....hes a 3L four weeks from finals, i dont get how he cant be freaking out, perhaps my view of law students is slighted because i live with pretty dedicated types, who kind of kill themselves to do well. so yeah, the whole event was a bit awkward, he also didnt eat....which was even awkwarder, i dislike being the only one eating during a meal it makes most people feel self-conscious i think, i dont really know what to do now. we are apparently very different people, with very little in common, but i keep getting the feeling that we do actually have more in common then what the surface shows. Anyways, i am once again sitting in bruggers by myself only this time i am 3 hours behind schedule because i thought it would be rude to work when he had nothing to do but talk to me.
I give up.
I am adding workaholic to the list of attributes i need my friends/significant other to possess. I cant be the only perfectionist workaholic at the table. so if any of you know of a workaholic, witty, socially awkward, confident boy with some-sort of a life ambition, give him my name, I will pry like him. it would also help if he wasnt completely unfortunate looking but then most of the people who read this have seen my ex-boyfriends so you know that there is some wiggle room in the looks department. I tend to fall in love with the unfortunate looking.

its noisy in Bruggers Bagels today:( stupid game day. yes thats right, stupid game day, i said it, let the one with more work then i have cast the first stone.
So today, the cute old man and i have been joined by a set of couples that keep debating economics...their conversation is mildly interesting, if nothing else i think the one guy is strait up republican (the type of republican that thinks he knows everything and calls liberals commies.) so that is kind of entertaining, if he only knew that a uber libreral librarian was eves dropping and giggling at his expense he pry would not enjoy it near as much as i am. A pair of asian women have taken post bewteen the old mans table and mine. thier table is the noisy one, but i am amazed at home fast their language requires them to talk. I talk fast in english, but not even i could keep pace with them, i dont think. They were very nice tho, (helped me with the creamer container when i couldnt get it open) so i cant get too annoyed at thier noisiness, they both also smiled at me which sometimes is all i need to make my day better (a smile from a stranger) so that is the situation at bruggers :)
I will be completing the tutorial for an IRB today and complete my reading for my Organization Management. I hope to finish up a presentation for org man as well but that might just be hopeful optimism. I am presenting on librarian fear. there was a situations a few years ago at john hopkins where a women died due to shoddy research. This is an article that i would like to carry around for when people ask me why i had to go to grad school for library science. I am trained to do research....normal people miss stuff, librarians miss stuff too, but most have an affection for print, we arnt daunted by doing a paper search. apparently the researcher and the ethics board did not feel the need to check print sources, and did not see the need to contact a librarian. not everything is digitized....i repeat not everything is digitized. not even close, pub-med only goes to 1966 and that is unusual for most on-line content to go back that far. Libaraians know this, use them. yep that is my tangent for the day. even if you are an advanced degree holding individual, unless you have done two years of research theory, go to a librarian. there is a chance we wont find anything other then what you have found, but then there is a chance we will find much more and that it will actually be useful and hey may even save a life if you are testing chemicals or trying a new type of therapy.... that researcher really kills me.

ahhh well, i better continue on my on-line tutorials for my IRB. I will write about my leigh hunt questionaire soon :)

ps yay, i am hoping to see steph this weekend:) also the SLIS halloween party was a pretty good time :) any party that has that much food is great in my book

what i want

thought to ponder.....
I have always thought i was a mature person. but i attract immature people. and i am not attracted to mature men. so that is starting to make me think that i am not mature.

I dream of the day that i can do what ever i want. School has officially broken my spirit i think. I dont want grand things anymore. I dont really care if i go to england, india, or greece. I dont really care if i have a job i love. i dont really care if i ever have a meaningful relationship. All i want is to be able to come home at the end of the day and not have to continue working. I want to read twilight and other smut that has nothing to do with improving my mind. i want to read pride and prejudice because it my favorite book. i want to actually watch a movie when i put one in, instead of reading articles or designing interfaces, or learning code, or researching during a movie like i have been. I want to crochet. I want to be able to afford the yarn that i need to crochet. I want to go to sleep at night and not lay awake and worry about my life. or work until i am exhausted so that i dont think at all but pass out in a comma like stupor. I want to be able to call my mom and my sister and not feel guilty about blowing two hours talking on the phone. i want to call my mom and listen to what she says instead of skimming my articles for class during the phone call. I dont want to learn anymore. I dont want to live here anymore. it rains too much. which affects my mood more then what i would like. I dont want the things i wanted before. forget excellence, forget professionalism, i want mediocre, and simple. I want to grow up. Im 24 years old and i have never had a real job. at this point i dont care what it is as long as when i leave at 5, i dont have to think about it until 8 the next morning....

this is what i want....its not much, but it is what i want.