I just realized how long it's been since I posted anything here. I've been reading, and commenting sometimes, but... yeah, not so much with the posting.

( And of course I'm jumping back in with a bunch of Thinky Thoughts. )

I realized today that I'm developing a bit of a kneejerk reaction to the phrase 'personal responsibility', and I think I want to unpack it a little and see what comes out. ( Cut for rantage. )

( Cut for navel-gazing. )

A few conversations recently have gotten me thinking about what's important to me. ( And so, some non-comprehensive and random navel-gazing. )

Y'know how sometimes, people you know do things that you know are a Bad Idea, but you also know that if you mention that you think it might be a bad idea, it will cause All Kinds Of Drama to explode all over your life ( Read more... )

There's been an awful lot going on inside my head lately that hasn't made its way into my journal. I always wind up a little maudlin and introspective over the holidays, and this year perhaps more than most, due to the unexpected reappearance of my brother. Recently, my thoughts have been revolving around two central themes.

Theme the first: I ( Read more... )

I just ran into the Head of Acquisitions & Collection Development, to whom I reported for over a year while I was in temporary detail-land, and as we were chatting about various work stuff, he said, "Y'know, now that you don't report to me anymore, we should have lunch every now and then or something, because I feel like I never see you anymore and ( Read more... )

I seem to have stirred up a bit of a tempest by making the apparently shocking suggestion that we should have a procedures manual to document our local cataloging practices.I've had my hair cut reallyreally short for about 2 1/2 years now, but in my mind I still have long hair, and I still find it odd to look in the mirror and see myself with short ( Read more... )

Ever have one of those periods in your life when you feel like you're racing and racing and expending prodigious energy, but not actually *getting* anywhere? And that if you stop racing for an instant, you get whirled around and around and set back down further away from where you intended to go than you were when you started ( Read more... )

I've learned something about myself in the last few weeks: I can cope with stress in one aspect of my life when the other aspects of my life are under control, but when I'm turning my personal life upside down in the midst of lots of work changes, I don't manage it so well. I'm dropping details at work (largely because I'm in transition between ( Read more... )