an explanation of sorts

Man. things are a lot busier during break than i imagined...anyhow. here's something i wanted to write a while ago but never got around to posting...

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Ever since I embarked on this journey to become a librarian, many people have expressed their confusion as to why I wanted to do something so boring. Or why I even need a Master's to become one. And what do librarians DO? Being unprepared (and perhaps even a little ignorant myself) I know that I've only given very vague & unsatisfactory responses.

Right now, I'll attempt to answer...Why library & info science (LIS)??

Besides being able to help people directly as an everyday part of the job (a big perk after being completely disillusioned with corporate america), I really didn't look too deeply into the job description before I dived right in (altho, I did talk to some librarians to get their views, looked into job security & salary a bit too). Perhaps that makes me seem very naive, impulsive and maybe even a little stupid, but after years of floundering about for direction and coming up empty, I just knew it when I saw it - that becoming a librarian was the path for me (that's saying a lot since every other path i'd considered or been asked to consider got an almost immediate "no thanks" response from me). I really believe that I have the talents and interests I have for a reason (that God made me who I am for a purpose) and the dissatisfaction I had with my work was because it was truly not a good fit with that promise. And LIS might work out better.

I know there are a lot of risks (what big change doesn't have 'em?), but I'm generally confident that this will work out, and I'm really looking forward to making a difference in my job. Whether librarians become extinct in the future or not, I've also got confidence that God's got it all under control, that this is where He wants me to be (for now) and everything is going to work out. And hey, I think the biggest step for me was to finally & actually have enough courage to quit the job that was making me miserable and move on to something less certain but with lots of hope & promise.

Ah well. So hopefully, that explains my thought process for being where I'm at now...and actually, I really appreciate everyone's concern for me about this path I've chosen. I don't know what's going to happen with it, but I know that my friends & family are gonna be here to support me thru it all and I'm truly thankful for you all. And please keep asking me your questions until i can answer to your satisfaction, cuz until then, it's obviously something i still need to work out, and you guys will help keep me honest. :)

thanks for reading that little spiel. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

i'm Freeeeee

yup. I officially finished my first semester of grad skool at 3:30pm Tues. Yippeeeeee!
Let the partying begin. :)
(also time to shop for gifts, catch up on bills, clean room, and the rest of that FUN stuff *sigh*)

Inconvenient to be sure! But necessary!

I just watched this last night and it is motivational...and scary what's happening to our Earth. What we're doing to it. *Personally, I think Gore shoulda added something about the impact to penguins (everyone loves penguins!).* This is just a quick post to get the link up and get everyone I know to watch the movie.

Don't think it's really a problem? Watch the movie and get more info on the subject and see if you still believe that. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it. And if you've watched it but haven't done anything about it...why not??

Check out what we can do to decrease our CO2 emissions. Cuz each of us really can make a difference! So let's get started before it's too late.

The History of the World (according to students)

This history of the world was compiled by Richard Lederer from actual student bloopers and mistakes which I came across in class last week and got from here. It's crazy long, so I've posted an abridged version below, which is still pretty long, but worth a good laf. (btw, an update on me...1 assignment and 1 final to go with 1 week left in the semester!! woo hoo)

The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube.

The Greeks had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intolerable. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.

Eventually, the Ramons conquered the Geeks. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlic in their hair. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them.

Then came the center Ages. King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery, and the victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks. Finally, the Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.

Queen Elizabeth of England was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted "hurrah." Then her navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo.

The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. In one of Shakespeare's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote "Paradise Lost." Then his wife dies and he wrote "Paradise Regained."

During the Renaissance, America began. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.

One of the causes of the Revolutionary Wars was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps.

Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin had gone to Boston carrying all his clothes in his pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm. He invented electricity by rubbing cats backwards. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

Abraham Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show.

Napoleon became ill with bladder problems and was very tense and unrestrained. He wanted an heir to inherent his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't bear him any children.

The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.

The First World War, cause by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by a surf, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.