habitually probing generalist

I’m still looking for some hourly work for the fall.  My current place is holding 10 hours/week of hourly work for me, but I haven’t had a lot of luck so far with finding definite employment to make up the other 10 hours.  Of course, I’m looking for employment in cataloging and/or metadata. I heard [...]

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Late this afternoon I signed a lease for an apartment.  On 2 August I’ll take possession of my new place on the 500 block of W. Springfield in Champaign.  I have to be out of here on the 9th, so I’ll have plenty of time to move my way too many belongings. Heading over to [...]

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I love living in a college town! I took myself out for a spot of dinner tonight and just as I was finishing up my friend Nav showed up.  He asked me out to the Alley as the rain had moved on, so I went.  Turns out he was with his new friend Tom. So [...]

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About an hour ago I did some magic between TypePad and FeedBurner and now my feeds have all supposedly been automagically rolled into one feed.  Subscribers are supposed to be redirected automagically also.  So here’s hoping no one has issues. I also added some FeedFlare to my feed and site.  Thus, you should now see [...]

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…although they may well be confused.  Welcome to the club! OK, I don’t really have 20,000 fans.  But I did just pass 20,000 page views.  I know, I know.  A couple folks out here in the biblioblogosphere have half that many Bloglines subscribers and must get that many page views every 24-30 hours.  But most [...]

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I guess the post title really says it all, but for those who don’t know, Dorothea Salo is the witty and learned, "young" [per ALA anyway] writer of Caveat Lector and today is her birthday. Here’s wishing you a wonderful one and that David’s homemade cake is the best ever! On a side note, I’m [...]

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  Army stuff    Originally uploaded by broken thoughts. I got an interesting package of "official U.S. Army documents" in the mail today.   It seems my Nation wants to thank its Soldiers [and no, I did not know that either of those were proper nouns.   "Nation" scares the crap out of me!]. All of this [...]

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Thanks to Alice’s post, Strong women in times of change, at It’s all good I came across the following:  Leslie Burger’s Emerging Leadership Initiative. A side question that is not really related to my point here is why is this under the aegis of the Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative and not ALA? Why: To [...]

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Photo courtesy of ishrona under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. A couple of submissions from last week got inadvertently overlooked due to various imps in the system so, in the spirits of fun, inclusiveness, and goodwill, here they are: Kim Leeder at Park Ranger for the Intellectual Commons gives us Political “action” via email as [...]

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…or as she IMed, "I’m kinda typsy."  She immediately corrected it to "tipsy" but I think I prefer it as "typsy."  Remember kiddies, no blogging while typsy!  Drink and blog responsibly. My friend Tracy at trickle drops tagged me with a meme she did last Sunday.  The funny thing is, until now I thought her [...]

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