oh god my head hurts
I'm back from Oklahoma. Had a headache most of the drive back, which wasn't helped by looking at bright headlights a lot. I've just finished catching up on my friends list, which had gotten to skip=200 without me checking it constantly.
I have a big project due in Collection Development Tuesday night, so the next couple days are gonna be hectic. I'm probably around a third of the way through, and I'm not sure what format we're supposed to use to turn it in. I think she might want it printed out, which is annoying. My spreadsheet is too wide to print and have it look right. Basically what we're doing is picking a subject and creating a collection of books and other items for a pretend library we make up, with a budget of $2000. I have to figure out where the money comes from (e.g. famous person donates it for the purpose of setting up a collection on their pet topic) and write various collection development policy stuff, then talk about what I learned and crap like that. My topic is arctic exploration. So far I've managed to find about 20 books that I ABSOLUTELY MUST READ. This is not counting the ones I've already read. As you can see, I picked a topic I can gush about at great length. So far, I've just been putting the books in whatever order I find them, but I'd like to go back and separate them by what explorer they're about and stuff, so it's easier to see what kind of coverage I've got. I'm thinking that would make it more interesting (at least to me). There'd be topics like: Sir John Franklin, Sir John Ross, Elisha Kent Kane, North Pole, South Pole, Antarctica, Northwest Passage, William McClintock, Modern Exploration, Women Explorers (as someone on Amazon said, "cuz heaven forbid they'd just get in the other books"), Inuit, George Back, John Rae, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, OMG I LOVE THIS TOPIC!!!1!1!!!
I read two books this weekend, which was an amazing and wonderful treat. I mean, I reread the Honor Harrington books every five seconds, but I don't get to new stuff nearly as often. It takes more concentration to keep track of what's going on if I haven't read it before, so if I feel like I don't have enough time I don't tend to read as much new stuff. So I read Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth by Wayne R. Besen. Ex-gay ministries have been in the news a lot lately, because of Zach and because of a series on Salon.com. Love in Action actually came to SNU while I was there and did a chapel presentation, which apparently was rather misleading, according to the information in this book. That is, they said that being sexually abused as a child is what makes you gay, and that anybody can become 100% heterosexual (among other things). Now that I know there are religious groups who believe the Bible doesn't condemn homosexuality and who dispute the claims of ex-gay ministries and their supposed success rates (none of them actually keep statistics), it seems like it would have been appropriate for SNU to let us know there was an opposing view. I also read What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak, because I'm curious about about what pro-gay scholars have to say about the Bible's views.
Finally, GIP to lafemme_icons. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead: like Terry Pratchett, except it's LITRACHUR!
I have a big project due in Collection Development Tuesday night, so the next couple days are gonna be hectic. I'm probably around a third of the way through, and I'm not sure what format we're supposed to use to turn it in. I think she might want it printed out, which is annoying. My spreadsheet is too wide to print and have it look right. Basically what we're doing is picking a subject and creating a collection of books and other items for a pretend library we make up, with a budget of $2000. I have to figure out where the money comes from (e.g. famous person donates it for the purpose of setting up a collection on their pet topic) and write various collection development policy stuff, then talk about what I learned and crap like that. My topic is arctic exploration. So far I've managed to find about 20 books that I ABSOLUTELY MUST READ. This is not counting the ones I've already read. As you can see, I picked a topic I can gush about at great length. So far, I've just been putting the books in whatever order I find them, but I'd like to go back and separate them by what explorer they're about and stuff, so it's easier to see what kind of coverage I've got. I'm thinking that would make it more interesting (at least to me). There'd be topics like: Sir John Franklin, Sir John Ross, Elisha Kent Kane, North Pole, South Pole, Antarctica, Northwest Passage, William McClintock, Modern Exploration, Women Explorers (as someone on Amazon said, "cuz heaven forbid they'd just get in the other books"), Inuit, George Back, John Rae, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, OMG I LOVE THIS TOPIC!!!1!1!!!
I read two books this weekend, which was an amazing and wonderful treat. I mean, I reread the Honor Harrington books every five seconds, but I don't get to new stuff nearly as often. It takes more concentration to keep track of what's going on if I haven't read it before, so if I feel like I don't have enough time I don't tend to read as much new stuff. So I read Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth by Wayne R. Besen. Ex-gay ministries have been in the news a lot lately, because of Zach and because of a series on Salon.com. Love in Action actually came to SNU while I was there and did a chapel presentation, which apparently was rather misleading, according to the information in this book. That is, they said that being sexually abused as a child is what makes you gay, and that anybody can become 100% heterosexual (among other things). Now that I know there are religious groups who believe the Bible doesn't condemn homosexuality and who dispute the claims of ex-gay ministries and their supposed success rates (none of them actually keep statistics), it seems like it would have been appropriate for SNU to let us know there was an opposing view. I also read What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak, because I'm curious about about what pro-gay scholars have to say about the Bible's views.
Finally, GIP to lafemme_icons. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead: like Terry Pratchett, except it's LITRACHUR!