I'm thinking about looking more deeply into jobs that I would be suited to and qualified for with an MLIS other than working in libraries. It's probably a temporary thing, but between seeing Miriam's struggles with academia's workload and conferences, and just feeling a lot of social anxiety when going to places with other people, I sometimes wish ( Read more... )

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... )

I heard a noise last night, around 11 o' clock, that sounded like two sharp raps on the apartment door. I got out of bed, found clothes, looked through the window, and opened the door. There wasn't anyone there. I'm thinking now that maybe it was something the cat knocked over.

I had medium-high intensity fear for a while after, and it was keeping ( Read more... )

I got put together for the trans support group today, and I look ok. I'm slowly feeling more at home in my own life in ways I had no idea I could feel, and in ways I didn't even know how out of place I've felt for so long ( Read more... )

Another post made me think about the fact that it's been 6 years since I left my master's program at Syracuse and In many ways I'm still not recovered. Learning about the fundamentally unjust nature of modern production of urban space made me too depressed to be functional. I was a danger to myself. It makes me feel like a failure and a ( Read more... )

Well, yesterday was a day ( Read more... )

I've given my official notice and started telling people around the office: my last day at work is Friday the 20th. I'll have the week of Christmas and into the new year to visit with folks, and then I'm flying to Amsterdam. Hopefully the first week of January, but maybe the second if there's a big price difference. New Years may make things more ( Read more... )

We've been getting phishing emails at work lately and IT just sent out a message with information about how to detect them. In the actual block of text that says to look for spelling errors....there's a spelling error.

I found an error in the text I'm transcribing at work from that Civil War exhibit I mentioned. Nathan Bedford Forrest's last name is used with only a single 'r'. However, the misspelling occurs in a quotation of a diary from the period. I don't know whether it's an error by the original transcriber, or if it's actually a correct quotation of an ( Read more... )