clever peasant pharmacy

Film Festival tickets have been located and my schedule is set.

This morning, we decided to whom we’d offer the open librarian position at work, and also which candidates we’d interview for my soon-to-be-vacated PA position.

Now, on to a luncheon date with friends, to be followed by work on a sort of "information packet" for the folks who I’ve listed as references, my five hour Ref desk shift, dinner, and then my first Film Festival event.

I can’t believe the Film Fest starts tomorrow!  I can’t believe I don’t know where I put my fucking tickets to the Film Fest!  I can’t believe I’m so tired at 10pm that I don’t feel like digging through all my crap to find my Film Fest tickets!

I’m going to be watching all short films this year (if I find my tickets).  I love both short films and short stories.

And and and I landed a real live face-to-face interview for the community college librarian position!  I’ve been breaking into little jigs all day.

Yes!  I’ve landed a phone interview for a real live job!

I admit that I’m getting a little carried away… planning my life with this job… envisioning our beautiful babies…

(librarian + library = brainy, poorly funded children)

I do not recommend trying to sleep in the same room with a hyperactive six year old boy.  Especially when the temperature of the house containing said room is maintained at seventy-something and the ambient light is not conducive to sleep.

That being said, I miss my nephews already.

Why is it so fun to dye Easter eggs?  Ah, simple pleasures…

Heading out to Arizona to help my grandmother move.  Will attempt to thwart my mother from throwing everything out.  Hope I’m not too late!

Ennui, mon amie…

Points and lines and opposites are lies.

"It is winter inside, I think / and stand close, too close to you to notice"

A couple days from now, I’m heading to Arizona for a brief visit with my grandmother.  Well, actually, my mom & I are helping her move into a retirement community (she’s 93).

And one of my childhood friends is going to die soon, of inoperable cancer - it started as breast cancer and then metastasized.  She has two little kids.  Burke was just in Indiana for the funeral of his cousin’s wife, who also died of cancer (skin) that metastasized, and who left three kids behind.

Yesterday was my nephew Josh’s sixth birthday, and I don’t know when I’ll get to see him again, because I’m apparently persona non grata to his suicidal mother.  Feeling low tonight.

We rock!  The good news is, our School of Library & Information Studies team won 2nd place tonight in the Madison Area Literacy Council’s Adult Spelling Bee for Literacy (a fundraiser).  The bad new is, our prize was four rounds of golf.  Unsurprisingly, we’re donating the prize to our own SLIS Library silent auction fundraiser.

More good news!  I won the Scrabble Scramble (with "jazzed"), so I won a night for two at the Ramada Inn.  And yet more good news!  Our two SLIS cheerleaders (the Director and Admissions administrator) tied for winning the Bracket Buster, so they got to split some prizes.  And lastly, the other good news is that we lost to another team of librarians, from the Madison Public Library.

"With the advent of Google and other internet search programs, much of the research usually done by the school librarian can be done by students and teachers."
- Madison Metropolitan School District 2005-2006 Budget Discussion Items

Last night I spoke up for librarians at the MMSD school board meeting.  Apparently, I made it on television!

I even argued with the superintendent, Art Rainwater - he disputed my claim that elementary school librarian positions had been cut - which they have.  According to him and a board member, going from 100% to 50% time as a librarian in order to take on a 50% computer teaching job is not "cutting positions."  That’s like saying a science teacher is still a full-time science teacher if they’re made to take on 20 hours of teaching French.