Why hello LJ, what have you been up to lately?
I've been busy, but probably not busy enough to justify taking a near-month break from LJ. Ah well, these things do happen.
When I returned from Faculty Field Tour, I was exhausted. It was a kind of exhaustion that I don't remember ever having experienced before, and I think it was from being in social overdrive 10 hours a day for a full week. My inner introvert took over my body and I spent the whole week after FFT going to work, coming home, cooking dinner, laying down "to get a little rest" between 8:30-9:30 and waking up to find it was the next day. As soon as I was able to stay awake past 10:00pm, I left for ALA.
ALA was pretty good. It was only my second one, and I feel like I did a better job of managing my time. However, I still didn't find that perfect balance between presentations, networking opportunities/ discussion groups, and exhibits. Anyway, what I really excelled at this year was the networking aspect (oh no, more social interaction!) and that was what I needed to do, since there seems to be a bias at UW that librarians need to show national-level professional involvement. I got onto a committee (LLAMA-SASS: say it out loud) and became a program planner for 2009. Woo.
It was good to see peeps from Nevada, but I'm so glad I got out of there. Kee took some of us out to an amazing Korean BBQ place. It was amazing and very affordable.
I made it to Disneyland for about 4 hours between 8-midnight Saturday night. That was enough, thank you.
Once back from ALA, I worked through the remaining 3 days of the week and started pulling my life out of the suitcases littering my bedroom floor.
For the 4th of July I decided to stay home and enjoy being in Wallingford for the 4th, partly because I wasn't in the mood to go to a party where there would be lots of people I didn't know and partly because I had missed it so much when I was in Vegas. I spent the evening drinking with Tina, who I hadn't really hung out with in weeks, and her family. The neighbors with the insanely awesome deck invited us to come upstairs for the fireworks, and it was just the mellow community event I was longing for. After the fireworks were over, I drunkenly played loud music for the folks walking back from Gasworks to enjoy (or not...).
The past week has been wonderfully uneventful.
When I returned from Faculty Field Tour, I was exhausted. It was a kind of exhaustion that I don't remember ever having experienced before, and I think it was from being in social overdrive 10 hours a day for a full week. My inner introvert took over my body and I spent the whole week after FFT going to work, coming home, cooking dinner, laying down "to get a little rest" between 8:30-9:30 and waking up to find it was the next day. As soon as I was able to stay awake past 10:00pm, I left for ALA.
ALA was pretty good. It was only my second one, and I feel like I did a better job of managing my time. However, I still didn't find that perfect balance between presentations, networking opportunities/ discussion groups, and exhibits. Anyway, what I really excelled at this year was the networking aspect (oh no, more social interaction!) and that was what I needed to do, since there seems to be a bias at UW that librarians need to show national-level professional involvement. I got onto a committee (LLAMA-SASS: say it out loud) and became a program planner for 2009. Woo.
It was good to see peeps from Nevada, but I'm so glad I got out of there. Kee took some of us out to an amazing Korean BBQ place. It was amazing and very affordable.
I made it to Disneyland for about 4 hours between 8-midnight Saturday night. That was enough, thank you.
Once back from ALA, I worked through the remaining 3 days of the week and started pulling my life out of the suitcases littering my bedroom floor.
For the 4th of July I decided to stay home and enjoy being in Wallingford for the 4th, partly because I wasn't in the mood to go to a party where there would be lots of people I didn't know and partly because I had missed it so much when I was in Vegas. I spent the evening drinking with Tina, who I hadn't really hung out with in weeks, and her family. The neighbors with the insanely awesome deck invited us to come upstairs for the fireworks, and it was just the mellow community event I was longing for. After the fireworks were over, I drunkenly played loud music for the folks walking back from Gasworks to enjoy (or not...).
The past week has been wonderfully uneventful.