Tides
Paper is done. Emily is tired. Today was another one of those days where the ideas were coming fast and furious and I didn't so much try to keep up as just drift along the current. While writing a paper. I'm actually really proud of myself for writing the paper today. It's not due until Thursday, and normally I would be writing it Wednesday afternoon and evening. But luckily, I realized that the Palimpsest launch was going to really mess that plan up, and managed to do it all today instead. Normally, even KNOWING that Wednesday was going to be a wash (study-wise, but in absolutely no other way), I would still probably put it off and then have to stay up all night or scramble, and instead it's DONE, and tomorrow after class I can proof and edit and submit it at my leisure on Thursday morning.
As for the other stuff, well, starting scarletstring was sudden and interesting and has been getting itself some attention, and since I am all about community tagging, I've been going to town on that. So tomorrow yuki_onna and I will be talking about more of the specifics for what we want to do with some of the challenges and concrete things over there, and it should be a lot of fun. I have posts to write over there too, but those are probably not going to happen tonight.
Oh, and in a further indication of how things have been going lately, the other day I volunteered to help run the kaffeeklatches at Worldcon this year. Not the GoH ones, but all the rest of them. I'm not entirely sure what all I've signed myself up for here, but I know that there's a core three of us (one of whom is farwing, who I hear good things about) keeping the things running, and ya'll know how I like organizing things. So, yeah, should be interesting. I'm just going to keep saying yes to things until I reach my limit, I guess.
Also, I apparently procrastinate by doing reference work for friends. Not that I'm complaining, I like reference and I see it as a good chance to keep myself in practice, since I still don't have a job. I wonder if there's a spot on my resume' for "found obscure book reference when part of the citation was wrong in less than 10 minutes"?
Now if only I could somehow turn any of this into a job. Not this stuff specifically, since this is all hobby really (with the obvious exception of the reference work), but to have it somehow get seen by someone who would go "oh hey there, you should come work at my public library near where you want to live anyway, and do your thing for us." That would be frickin' sweet. Just in case these things actually work, I want to stay in the Boston area, I want to be in a public library, if I'm doing YA services that's cool, I want to do tech outreach (but not technical services, thank you) for the public and the staff, I want to work with making the library and its tech more accessible to handicapped users, and I don't mind being the reference librarian that everyone defers tech questions to. Any combination of the above would work for me, as long as it's a reasonable combination. Oh, I graduate in May with my MLIS from Simmons.
So yeah, I'm not asking anyone to pass that along necessarily, it's more just putting it out there for funzies and karma reciprocation purposes.
As for the other stuff, well, starting scarletstring was sudden and interesting and has been getting itself some attention, and since I am all about community tagging, I've been going to town on that. So tomorrow yuki_onna and I will be talking about more of the specifics for what we want to do with some of the challenges and concrete things over there, and it should be a lot of fun. I have posts to write over there too, but those are probably not going to happen tonight.
Oh, and in a further indication of how things have been going lately, the other day I volunteered to help run the kaffeeklatches at Worldcon this year. Not the GoH ones, but all the rest of them. I'm not entirely sure what all I've signed myself up for here, but I know that there's a core three of us (one of whom is farwing, who I hear good things about) keeping the things running, and ya'll know how I like organizing things. So, yeah, should be interesting. I'm just going to keep saying yes to things until I reach my limit, I guess.
Also, I apparently procrastinate by doing reference work for friends. Not that I'm complaining, I like reference and I see it as a good chance to keep myself in practice, since I still don't have a job. I wonder if there's a spot on my resume' for "found obscure book reference when part of the citation was wrong in less than 10 minutes"?
Now if only I could somehow turn any of this into a job. Not this stuff specifically, since this is all hobby really (with the obvious exception of the reference work), but to have it somehow get seen by someone who would go "oh hey there, you should come work at my public library near where you want to live anyway, and do your thing for us." That would be frickin' sweet. Just in case these things actually work, I want to stay in the Boston area, I want to be in a public library, if I'm doing YA services that's cool, I want to do tech outreach (but not technical services, thank you) for the public and the staff, I want to work with making the library and its tech more accessible to handicapped users, and I don't mind being the reference librarian that everyone defers tech questions to. Any combination of the above would work for me, as long as it's a reasonable combination. Oh, I graduate in May with my MLIS from Simmons.
So yeah, I'm not asking anyone to pass that along necessarily, it's more just putting it out there for funzies and karma reciprocation purposes.