I'm bored. Let's talk about the weather.
So here it is, April 6th, and it's SNOWING out. Pretty hard, too, considering. We're supposed to get something like 2" tonight and another 1" tomorrow.
Darned global warming.
You know what I miss? El Nino. Remeber when we could just blame all this crazy weather crap on El Nino? El Nino was a little jerk, but at least he was a convenient excuse. These days we have global warming that we can blame for everything, but it's not really as satisfying because apparently all of the global warming crap is because of us humans, or more often us Americans, or occasionally the evil soccer moms with their SUVs, or (in the case of Katrina) George W. Bush. (Really, after Katrina I heard one guy blame Bush PERSONALLY for the storm. Not for the FEMA crap, for the storm itself, because he didn't sign the Kyoto Accord and, presumably, this pissed Mother Earth off or something.)
But yes. I miss El Nino, because he was such a convenient scapegoat. El Nino was no-one's fault, he was just wind breaking through Mexico or something, and who's gonna blame them? No-one who's had a burrito, anyway.
So it's snowing in April. Not unheard of, but given that Easter is less than a week away, pretty disconcerting. A couple of days ago it was sunny and warm, and the day before that it was raining but at least it was warm, but on the way home from class I had to deal with rain, sleet, snow, fog, hail - I felt like I was in the Postal Service. It wasn't really that bad, since the snow wasn't really sticking yet, but the visibility was lousy and anyway it's the principle of the thing.
In other news, I find that I'm very nearly officially a librarian, except for that whole pesky getting hired thing. In less than two weeks I complete my final class of the semester, meaning that I have just two weeks to procrastinate on my two final papers before I qualify to officially become a librarian. Naturally I don't actually expect to procrastinate right up until the last day on those two papers (mainly since one of them is due next week), but you understand what I'm saying. I qualify to walk on a Saturday some three weeks hence, but I'm scheduled to work that day so I don't think I'm likely to be going, which is a shame, but not really since I don't think anyone is likely to be able to make it out this way to see it anyway.
Regardless, this represents a significant achievement in my life: I will have proven that I am capable of navigating the labyrenth that is financial aid very nearly on my own.
Oh yeah, and that I can be a librarian. That too.
Still, despite my apparent attitude, I am actually pretty excited about graduating. I'm still nervous about the change, of course, and I'm sure that I'll miss the kids at McGuire, but I think I'll make a pretty good librarian. I like books, I like knowledge, I like helping people, and I'm pretty good at puzzles, so I think it's a pretty good match. I'm rather hoping for a reference position because I think it has more variety and also because I like helping people find things out, but we'll see what turns up. All things considered I could ask for a better climate to search for a new career in, (darn global warming again!) but at least I'm in a growing field.
All things considered, it's an interesting time to be alive, even if only in the Chinese proverbial sense of the word, and I intend to enjoy it.
Now I think I'll go try to find out what happened to El Nino. I'm betting Al Gore killed him and blamed it on Bush.
Darned global warming.
You know what I miss? El Nino. Remeber when we could just blame all this crazy weather crap on El Nino? El Nino was a little jerk, but at least he was a convenient excuse. These days we have global warming that we can blame for everything, but it's not really as satisfying because apparently all of the global warming crap is because of us humans, or more often us Americans, or occasionally the evil soccer moms with their SUVs, or (in the case of Katrina) George W. Bush. (Really, after Katrina I heard one guy blame Bush PERSONALLY for the storm. Not for the FEMA crap, for the storm itself, because he didn't sign the Kyoto Accord and, presumably, this pissed Mother Earth off or something.)
But yes. I miss El Nino, because he was such a convenient scapegoat. El Nino was no-one's fault, he was just wind breaking through Mexico or something, and who's gonna blame them? No-one who's had a burrito, anyway.
So it's snowing in April. Not unheard of, but given that Easter is less than a week away, pretty disconcerting. A couple of days ago it was sunny and warm, and the day before that it was raining but at least it was warm, but on the way home from class I had to deal with rain, sleet, snow, fog, hail - I felt like I was in the Postal Service. It wasn't really that bad, since the snow wasn't really sticking yet, but the visibility was lousy and anyway it's the principle of the thing.
In other news, I find that I'm very nearly officially a librarian, except for that whole pesky getting hired thing. In less than two weeks I complete my final class of the semester, meaning that I have just two weeks to procrastinate on my two final papers before I qualify to officially become a librarian. Naturally I don't actually expect to procrastinate right up until the last day on those two papers (mainly since one of them is due next week), but you understand what I'm saying. I qualify to walk on a Saturday some three weeks hence, but I'm scheduled to work that day so I don't think I'm likely to be going, which is a shame, but not really since I don't think anyone is likely to be able to make it out this way to see it anyway.
Regardless, this represents a significant achievement in my life: I will have proven that I am capable of navigating the labyrenth that is financial aid very nearly on my own.
Oh yeah, and that I can be a librarian. That too.
Still, despite my apparent attitude, I am actually pretty excited about graduating. I'm still nervous about the change, of course, and I'm sure that I'll miss the kids at McGuire, but I think I'll make a pretty good librarian. I like books, I like knowledge, I like helping people, and I'm pretty good at puzzles, so I think it's a pretty good match. I'm rather hoping for a reference position because I think it has more variety and also because I like helping people find things out, but we'll see what turns up. All things considered I could ask for a better climate to search for a new career in, (darn global warming again!) but at least I'm in a growing field.
All things considered, it's an interesting time to be alive, even if only in the Chinese proverbial sense of the word, and I intend to enjoy it.
Now I think I'll go try to find out what happened to El Nino. I'm betting Al Gore killed him and blamed it on Bush.