today's blog 365 post
street chivalry
On a map there’s only a 20 mile difference between where I’m working now and where I used to work, but in the terms of society the two areas are worlds apart.
Previously I had worked in the suburbs. Most of my patrons were middle to upper class, suburban, white collar auto workers. A generally quiet, [...]
sewing
feeling girly»A little over a week ago, when I went for my interview at Wayne State, I had a chance to dress up. This isn’t something I do often. My day job is very casual, and while I do make an effort to look nice, jeans and sweatshirts are definitely the norm there (mostly because [...]
the south
Carrboro»
When I tell people up north about grad school and North Carolina I always tell people I lived in Chapel Hill. Which really isn’t true. I lived in Carrboro, and I actually loved it there. It’s the slightly poorer (and by poorer I mean that an average three bedroom house house is only about 300 [...]
allergies
good deed or come-on?»I haven’t written much this week because it’s just been a very bad allergy week. The kind where it feels like your head is imploding. The kind where you can concentrate on little else other than the fact that your sinus cavities are throbbing in time with the music on the radio. The kind that [...]
theatre
nostaglia»
Yesterday in “How to work the Reference Desk and not look like an idiot” class we were exploring different databases (and learned that Elsevier is an evil monopoly that just gets bigger and badder every year. Seriously, first they charge professors - and the school - to be published in any of their 1000 journals, [...]
