the sound of settling September 30, 2005

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you know what i mean?

did homework today, i know this blog is becoming very tired and i apologize for that. i may just start making up lies for your enjoyment. (if you missed it, i am a liar. i am also what you might call secretive by just keeping quiet.)

so anyway. i might go to an event at a place tomorrow night, but that’s about all for the weekend. i am becoming more and more a homebody, but it’s not even like i am trying. this is getting pathetic. i wish someone would perform an intervention. it cannot be healthy for me to not see the inside of but 5 buildings each week, can it? i’m being serious. soon it’ll be winter and it’ll be even worse. i need to go to that event tomorrow for my own sanity- it will require that i attend alone, so that is a bigger issue…. f.

i’m still waiting for my bloody messenger bag…

i promised photos yesterday, sorry it’s so boring, but i didn’t really do a single thing yesterday to warrant photography.

also. September 29, 2005

since i can’t find the wristwarmers i knit last year (thanks to the move) i am going to start a new pair today. i haven’t knitted in so long, how ever will i remember….

it’s fall. September 29, 2005

today seems like the official start of fall to me, it’s cool enough out to wear tights which is my barometer of how nice the weather is. yeah!!

got some props from a librarian yesterday who worked with me on the desk the other day, she thought i actually had library experience (which i don’t….) and was totally surprised that i had never worked in a library before. it was nice to hear.

i don’t know what’s up today, it’s supposed to be my day off but since everyone is busy i might just study like a total dork. but at least i’ll be wearing tights….

no photos lately, i apologize. maybe i’ll try and photo something today just for fun…

bag (hopefully) on it’s way! September 27, 2005

dickies bag
Originally uploaded by amyr.

i broke down and got a bag from yak pak so hopefully that’ll be here sometime soon. i have my first day at the library today, pretty cool.
i witnessed the saddest thing yesterday, these girls who were talking about one of their friends and how she was a total loser and then she shows up and they act like they love her. i guess that’s the way college is but i am done with that. i guess i don’t know the whole situation, but i would rather have a friend break up with me than talk about me that way- it’s pretty reflective of the so called “friends” character, eh?

i would like to say that i have been sewing or knitting or ANYTHING rather than reading lib. sci. books, but alas, i am not. someone suggested just picking up my fabric from storage so it’s around and then maybe i’d feel compelled to do something….
anyway, over and out, sorry for the social commentary.

long nights, hard times September 24, 2005

everyone seems to be in a funk lately. i talked to three people today (at least, i know someone else was sick today, but i didn’t talk to them) and all three were in the dumps. one person who i hadn’t seen in a long time told me of their girl problems, another is depressed about his work and then the last one if just busy getting ready for a upcoming event and he is feeling overwhelmed i guess. most of these conversations (aside from girl problems) were over the phone, so it was even more difficult to try and help them feel better. i don’t know. i know that these are the same people who have been helping me with the adjustment to school (i love when people confirm to me that they are also not able to study at home or with people they know around…) so it was nice to hopefully at least convince them a bit that things were going to be ok in the long run….

one subject i have been avoiding writing about is my actual adjustment to being back in pittsburgh. my former boss/ mentor/ guru brought this up the other day. here i was totally convinced that i was just having all this stress coming from school, but the more i thought about it, it is a total change being back here. i used to be alone A LOT and now i am rarely alone. that is taking some getting used to. i used to have a built in group of people at work that i would talk to, i am not at that point at school yet, i guess i have a few people that i chat with, but it is such freaking small talk, it’s sad. living in this house again is strange and just seeing people i knew from school or just from being around it also weird. people have changed a lot since before i left and i guess it’ll just take some time for me to be used to the changes. it’s a strange dichotomy as i am SO used to being in pittsburgh and familiar with my surroundings, but also like this outsider here. and not that i went out much in dc, but i NEVER go out here. it’s so weird, there are no big nights out on the horizon, just school and studying. (gosh, do i sound like a belly acher or what….)

so tomorrow is a family day- i am going to see my mom’s sister and husband at a family picnic thing. they live in kansas city, mo so they aren’t out here too much. also, i haven’t seen some of the people who will be there in a long time- i am assuming it will be weird. it is in one of the places where i spent every holiday until probably 17 or so- an island in the ohio river. i am not sure that most pittsburghers even know about that….

michele said she might be coming to visit at the end of the month, yeah!! we (AGAIN) have sworn to go visit svc a lot has changed since we were there….

another day, another library September 24, 2005

yesterday was my orientation at the the library. if you want, starting next week you can come in and ask me questions. i’ll try to answer. luckily, as an intern you are always on the desk with a librarian so it isn’t as intimidating as it could be. I talked to the librarian from my school (SIS has it’s own library with a few librarians…) and as i have been coming to her weekly training sessions, she knew my name (a surprise) and she had known that i was picked for the intern program too. i was pretty excited. so the main thing the said to us at the training was that you aren’t expected to know it all, probably a wise thing to tell people. i feel pretty good about it. the people seem pretty nice.

today is a study day, although my studying may be interupted by some parade…. urgh. the other thing is that i am still looking for a messenger bag for school. i may have to go to monroeville tonight to see what they have out there…. laters.

career romance novels? September 22, 2005

Emailing: GirlBook
Originally uploaded by amyr.

i learned of these crazy books the other night at school, guess i’ll be searching high and low to get a look at one of these.
here’s a description:

From girl detective stories to novels about boy wizards, series fiction has long been a staple of young adult literature. One type of series less well-known today is the “career romance” or “career girl novel” that appeared during the 1940s through the 1960s, as women entered the workplace in increasing numbers. Publishers of juvenile fiction sought to exploit this demographic trend with books featuring accomplished and attractive young women simultaneously pursuing their professional and romantic goals.

Napoleon dynamite fan club, aka, another wednesday night class (subtitled: can you feel the synergy????) September 21, 2005

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did the title entice you to read more?

so we’re about 4 weeks into school now and i am just now realizing that the teacher of my wednesday night class is mad for nap. dynamite. like totally bananas for that movie. i think she has mentioned it each week. if not each, then probably 3/4 weeks. how does nap. dynamite deal with library science you ask… well one time she mentioned “skills” and then she starts laughing thinking about Napoleon. THEN tonight, nap. get’s named dropped TWICE people. once our doctoral candidate teacher said a online public access catalog (that’s OPAC to the initiated) was “SWEET” (plus he’s british, so it was even better). then shows us a complex cataloguing record (MARC record) and it’s for NAPOLEON DYNAMITE and she proceeds to read the description of the item, which involves “sweet skills”. i guess teachers have lives too, but it’s not often a teacher talks about such a weird movie in class you know? she’s obviously a tv and movie junky (self proclaimed on day one when she made us introduce ourselves with the obligatory where we came from, what we want to do, and also our fav. tv shows….) so i don’t think she is trying to do some kind of “I’m down with the kids” move…. anyway..

the second thing is that at my former place of employment we had a key word, a word that was used all the time, we even had committees on this topic: SYNERGY. i know it’s a big corporate world word, but i can’t even tell you how it makes me want to crack up when i hear it. now in school it’s cropping up all over the place… so funny to me (and probably me only…)

tomorrow is my day off, yeah. i don’t know what i will do, but i really must get out and do something… i will not be boring tomorrow….

PS, while looking for a napoleon dynamite photo on flickr, i have now seen WAY TOO MANY photos of people wearing their vote for pedro shirts.

and he has good taste in music… September 21, 2005

i heard vinnie chase (aka adrian grenier) the other night on world cafe talking about his top five songs, it was pretty interesting. i don’t know why i can’t find the list now (talk about bad navigation and labelling on the world cafe website, yeah that’s school work paying off…) but it was on last friday at the end of the show if anyone is interested…. it should be the last 5 or 6 songs…. also, david gray was on the week before, but i didn’t get to hear all of it…

oh, here’s the list, i guess the list itself wasn’t so exciting, the conversation was better…

The Honey Brothers – O Dear- Songs For Your SisterFunkadelic – Can You Get To That- Maggot BrainWeen – The Mollusk- The MolluskJohnny Cash – Jackson- At Folsom PrisonNina Simone – Suzanne- Heart And SoulWeezer – Say It Ain’t So- Blue Album

file under lame post….

long time no bloggy September 21, 2005

sorry for the long absence. i would like to say that something exciting happened like i won a european vacation from eating wheat chex, but alas, i have just been lazing about when i am not studying or at school.

so let’s see, where to start. the big (best) exciting news is that i get to quit the computer lab- actually i HAVE to quit the computer lab b/c i am going to start working at the libarary as a reference intern. I interviewed for the program and got one of the slots, less money and less hours than the computer lab, but i need to get the field experience so i am doing it and not caring. not like i was getting rich at the computer lab….

i went to primanti’s for lunch/ dinner yesterday, how freaking good. also they were auditioning for the next real world in a bar. it was weird to see all the people who want to be on the real world in a line. i wonder if they were skipping class to audition… good for them. i think i am now too old to audition… oh well.

oh, gotta shout out to steve sarti and jenna- steve’s blog for max is here . the baby is all ready brought into the star wars world…

crafty bastards is next weekend and i still don’t know if i can go, if i can i think i’ll drive down and back in the day. i want to go, if the weather is crap i doubt i’ll go. i need someone to go with me so i can do the drive down and back in a day, oh well.

i think the arch nemisis thing is over, we’ll have to wait and see if it really is finished. if you don’t know what i am talking about, don’t worry.

that’s all i got. i have an all day training on friday for the library. i really hope i don’t feel totally in the dark about this stuff….