Off the Mark

I hope that I’m not jinxing myself as I only have email confirmation at the moment, but congrats are in order.
I am now the newest Serials Cataloging GA at the UIUC University Library! Yippee! I am so excited.
We have a big backlog of Western European journals, especially in German and French. I’ll [...]

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Yesterday, in the quest to narrow down my fall classes, I caught up with Dr. Carole Palmer. She was my MS advisor and is the prof for the above class this fall.
The syllabus isn’t posted yet, but she was able to show me a draft syllabus that we went through. It looks extremely [...]

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Tonight I accompanied Jenny in visiting one of the places in CU that she wanted to visit before heading off to the big city (literally; NYC).
We went to the Wienerschnitzel on Springfield (corporate vs. Wikipedia). When I was a kid in the north St. Louis suburbs we had a Wienerschnitzel so I thought it’d [...]

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You Were a Crow

Eternally wise, you have a deep understand of ethics.
You guide people from the darkness to the light.

What Animal Were You In a Past Life?
This one is entirely based on your birthdate. And what’s up with the bad grammar? The only part I can fully believe [...]

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You’ve Changed 60% in 10 Years

You’ve done a good job changing with the times, but deep down, you’re still the same person.
You’re clothes, job, and friends may have changed some - but it hasn’t changed you.

How Much Have You Changed in 10 Years?
They asked if I lived in a different [...]

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Thanks to some wonderful folks at GSLIS, UIUC I will be able to take both the Seminar in Classification Systems and Information Modeling this fall. So that part of my fall course conundrum is resolved. Yay me! What to do about the other two courses is still up in the air; my [...]

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Yesterday evening I went and got myself a library card from my new public library, Champaign Public Library, which is a short 3-block walk away from me. I’m lucky it is so close because just as I was walking into the parking lot I realized I had left the piece of mail with [...]

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I generally don’t do product endorsements. [I consider marketeers and marketing "science" to be the spawn of the devil and the prime engine of corporate capitalism.] I certainly don’t do them for potato chips, which I generally don’t care for. That being said…
A few weeks back, I picked up some chips for [...]

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[Note: I thought this got posted, but clearly it didn't. It was written Friday.]
Well, we didn’t exactly get rained out.
It started a good steady drizzle right before “curtain time, [8 PM]” which only got stronger and stronger. With most of the audience trying to hid under the slight cover at the back, they [...]

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Yesterday I found out that I did not get the job I really wanted. Seems they changed some of the criteria (and they needed to) but now I don’t “qualify.”
I would say “Oh well,” but this was exactly what I want to do.
So now I have to get back to looking for another job. [...]

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