Miserly but excited
I feel myself drawn back into LiveJournal. I don't write many letters or even e-mails for that matter these days, and lack a space for long narrative. To me, writing a longish post about how I feel about something or even what I've been up to lately is like putting on a comfy sweater.
I've been a bit dodgy about phone communication lately. I don't even have a reason! But my sister julioinka has called me, what, five times in the last month, and I've never called her back. Sorry. Another person I'm avoiding is the woman who is the new president of the campus womens club that I ran last year. Seriously, can't she just send me an e-mail? Talking to her is excruciating. I think it is because she is an only child and never had any children - she doesn't have a sense of other people having other time priorities than her or needing conversations to be less than an hour. I dread interacting with her. *Hides in her hole* So that one makes sense, but I don't dread my sister, but still don't feel like talking on the phone. Hmm... (Wow, looking back at some of my latest entries, don't I sound like a miser!)
I have to give a paper at the music librarian conference. I proposed a pretty broad topic about finding nuggets of music research in historical newspapers, and had a topic all picked out that I just wasn't feeling. I procrastinated and procrastinated and agonized because I felt like I was not telling anyone anything they didn't know. So I picked something completely obscure, and now my presentation will be about navigating the black hole of newspapers, ie: the non-digital non-indexed world. I'm spending all day in Asheville tomorrow doing this kind of research so I can talk about it. And in case it isn't coming across, I'm super excited about it. I wish the conference wasn't all the way in San Diego. It is going to take me an entire day to get there and an entire day to get back!
I've been a bit dodgy about phone communication lately. I don't even have a reason! But my sister julioinka has called me, what, five times in the last month, and I've never called her back. Sorry. Another person I'm avoiding is the woman who is the new president of the campus womens club that I ran last year. Seriously, can't she just send me an e-mail? Talking to her is excruciating. I think it is because she is an only child and never had any children - she doesn't have a sense of other people having other time priorities than her or needing conversations to be less than an hour. I dread interacting with her. *Hides in her hole* So that one makes sense, but I don't dread my sister, but still don't feel like talking on the phone. Hmm... (Wow, looking back at some of my latest entries, don't I sound like a miser!)
I have to give a paper at the music librarian conference. I proposed a pretty broad topic about finding nuggets of music research in historical newspapers, and had a topic all picked out that I just wasn't feeling. I procrastinated and procrastinated and agonized because I felt like I was not telling anyone anything they didn't know. So I picked something completely obscure, and now my presentation will be about navigating the black hole of newspapers, ie: the non-digital non-indexed world. I'm spending all day in Asheville tomorrow doing this kind of research so I can talk about it. And in case it isn't coming across, I'm super excited about it. I wish the conference wasn't all the way in San Diego. It is going to take me an entire day to get there and an entire day to get back!