Laurabelle's Blog

I finally woke up to reality, reality being that I'm only posting things to my really librarian-themed blog about once every two months, librarianship being so tied up in my everyday life that it's hard to make a real separation. So this morning I said oh what the heck, dinked around with the database a [...]

A couple of weeks ago I finally got my act together and registered for both summer and fall classes — or rather, I registered for summer and got entry codes for fall, even though I can't register until the end of June. Not that it matters, since June is still well before September, but I [...]

For the last two weeks of the quarter, my LIS 550 class is reading The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society by Manuel Castells and discussing it. So I've been reading it bit by bit on the bus, and I just finished a chapter called Virtual Communities or Network Society? which makes [...]

Meg, my supervisor at KCLS, likes to get out of the Service Center and into the branches every so often, to check the pulse of the system and see how the system is working, both for patrons and for library staff. So this Tuesday, instead of trekking out to Issaquah as usual, I hopped the [...]

On Fridays I don't have class until the afternoon, so this morning I slept in. It was lovely and luxurious until 8:30, when the doorbell rang. I didn't hear anyone else moving in the house, so I dragged myself out of bed and toddled sleepily to the door. The guy there was looking for a [...]

According to the Sex and Gender Explorer Test: Your Raw Score is: 370, which indicates that overall you are Androgynous Your appearance is Feminine Your brain processes are mostly that of a Androgynous person. You appear to socialize in a androgynous manner. You believe you have normal doubts about your gender identity. You indicated your [...]

Since last Wednesday I've had a very tense spot in my back, just beside my right shoulder blade. It feels somewhat better when I get Jeff to work on it, but it always comes back. It vanished for a whole twelve hours over the weekend, but this afternoon it came back with a vengeance. I [...]

The recent news story of rebel Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives makes me cackle with glee, even though I'm not looking forward to the repercussions. Unfortunately, this is the sort of thing that will only work once. It is also an exceedingly childish tactic, but I don't mind that so much because its [...]

Jeff: I've got the crazy eccentric part down, but if I were rich, I'd buy the statue and ask the council if I could just keep it there. Laura: I'd rather put it on the Washington Mall or something. Jeff: I knew there was a reason I was dating you. The subject of that conversation [...]

ALA librarians are not the quiet, unassuming stereotypes you see on TV and in the movies. (Paul Walfield, The ALA Library: Terrorist Sanctuary)