Off the Mark

I got ripped off by my genes—I’d have made one damn good lesbian if only my genetics had cooperated!
   

      Feminine
      You scored 43 masculinity and 50 femininity!
    
   
   

      You scored high on femininity and low on masculinity.  You have a traditionally feminine personality.
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Congratulations to the December 2005 UIUC GSLIS graduates!  New librarians all.
Monica Anderson
Jane Easterly
David Kunz
Ann Paprocki
Trinie Parker
David Podboy
Amber Prentiss
Alison Scott
Jack Thomas
and many, many more.

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Today I turned in the final pieces of my application for the Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) degree here at GSLIS at UIUC.
Now I get to wait 6 weeks.  Or more.
Although I never intend to stop learning, and to hopefully not stop taking classes, this may well be my last chance to be able to [...]

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My boss’ husband set up some cafepress schwag for all of us Radical Militant Librarians.
Just doing our small part to educate (and clothe) even more of them.
So, do your part.  Buy some and wear it. 
What, not a librarian yourself?  Then buy some for your own favorite RML.
Personally, these are the pieces I want:

1" button
T-shirt [...]

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Rikhei, the Lethal Librarian posted about a group of non-female library school students who have started a new organization, the Non-Female Library Association, or NoFLA.
I don’t know if this is a joke or what; but either way it is a bad joke.  They have a blog and there’s been some discussion in the Libraries community [...]

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TypePad is still failing me drastically.  They are at least fairly responsive to my help ticket, but aren’t fixing the problem.  They keep adding new features, blah, blah, blah, but what about just having a stable and reliable product?  That’s what I’d prefer.
I have been trying to send trackbacks to Michael McGrorty and 3QD since [...]

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You’ve gotta hope that there’s someone for youas strange as you arewho can cope with the things that you dowithout trying too hard
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You gotta know that there’s more to this worldthan you have seenbecause we all have a limited viewof what it can be
Jon Brion.  "Blossoms & Blood."  Punch-Drunk Love (disc 2).

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I managed to get most of my Christmas shopping done today.  I ordered some things online this morning and then hit Best Buy and Target this afternoon for some gift cards.  Of course, I have to mail the gift cards, but then I still have to mail Christmas cards so it’s OK I guess.  If [...]

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Recently read:  Michael Atkinson.  "Other People’s Bookmarks: Fellow Wanderers of a Forgotten Republic." Believer.  Nov 2005.  Found at 3 Quarks Daily.
Musings on objects found to mark one’s place in a book. 
If this is a story about bookmarks—other people’s booksmarks, others’ impulsive gestures and life-stuff dropped into books like time-capsuled accidents, residual moments left to [...]

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Well, for the 2 of you who may have been paying attention: 
No.  I did not.  She has a boyfriend.

At least I don’t have to beat up on myself anymore for not getting around to the asking.

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