Off the Mark

Welcome new readers
On the 14th of Jan, Blake posted a story at LISNews, The LINews 10 Blogs To Read in 2008. My lowly little blog was included in that list. I have at least 29 new readers in Bloglines, which means, perhaps, 80-120 total new readers since then. Of course, the fact that the list [...]

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Sickness and death
Been having odd sick-like things going on for a couple months now. Went to the doc last week. Sinus x-rays showed an infection and I’m a third of the way through 20 days of antibiotics. My electrolytes were also off and I had to have them retested. Go back Monday [...]

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As we head into the second week of the semester, here is how things are looking:
LIS590OH: Ontologies in the Humanities with Allen Renear
First class consisted of introductions, discussing the proto-syllabus [first time offering], and where we might want to take the class. There are about 10 students almost evenly split between “old-timers,” like me, [...]

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As part of my continuing education in the organization of information—focusing on classificatory structures—I have made a major transition over the break.
My hourly work on the FireTalk Thesaurus at the IFSI Library becomes a 25% graduate assistantship on Tuesday. Along with my 25% assistantship in serials cataloging at the main library, this is all [...]

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These are, in fact, rhetorical questions. I do have a sketchy answer for them [sketchy in the outlined, sort of questionable sense, not in the highly questionable sense]. But if you want to take a stab at either, or both, feel free; comments are below. My questions are more of the why, as [...]

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I have rarely been as excited to be locked out of where I work than at 8:58 AM this morning. So sweet! While I have no doubt that I could use 3 hours pay, excitement was the emotion of choice.
I stopped at Merry Ann’s diner and had a 3rd breakfast–an actual hearty one this [...]

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I had my thesaurus meeting and it went pretty well.
Luckily, the boss has done this herself and believes thesaurus work to be intellectually difficult work. So, basically, it’ll grow on me. And we all have the same basic priorities. Check.
As many of you can tell, I’m not exactly satisfied [although I stand [...]

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We have winter! It could be worse, but I decided not to risk it in my non-sure-footed car on the 1st snow. Blowing, freezing fog, snow, sleet, visibility issues. Most people have to re-experience how to drive in the snow and they drive like they never have done it before the first [...]

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