Whenever I start looking at librarian jobs, I feel so incompetent. I'm also really scared about teaching. I used to think I might even enjoy doing some teaching, when I started my master's in geography, but it's hard to get back to that headspace. And anything that puts me in some kind of leadership position is nigh-terrifying.

I really liked using ( Read more... )

I submitted a job application!

I haven't done job hunting since moving to Europe 3-4 years ago, with the exception of when I worked for a bicycle food delivery company for a whole one day in Amsterdam.

The description of the job that I'm trying really hard to get an application together for says "Special Application Instructions: "We know imposter ( Read more... )

There is a quotation, almost always attributed to one Jo Goodwin, about how a great library has something in it to offend everyone. I like the quotation, but I can't figure out who Jo Goodwin is or was. Even numerous essays or library websites that cite her as the originator have no information about who they were. I did find an obituary for one ( Read more... )

This is the Abbot And Costello sketch of the journal world


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Remember me mentioning the failure of communication from the student loan servicing folks at the federal government? I finally found out what documents they needed (apparently I'd missed some earlier communication from them by mail and never got a response to my phone call) and sent them a week or two ago. This morning, I got a call from a debt ( Read more... )

Library snobbery ( Read more... )

I said I have other updates. It hardly seems significant as I sit and listen to Terry Gross talk with her guest, a reporter familiar with the state department and North Korea policy, about whether we're at the brink of war with North Korea, but regardless ( Read more... )