December 2009
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Back to Work and Reflecting.
Back to work today after an extended holiday, so there’s been lots of spam removal from my inbox and total brain readjustment.
The bus rides between Chicago and MI over the past few days has given me ample time to reflect on 2009. A mixed bag of radical changes occurred, both personally and professionally — basically, it was a classic quarter-life crisis right before my eyes.
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Happy Christmas!
(From LMU)
"money-grubbing public libraries!"
My favorite things about Xmas: cookie baking, overindulging, and buying a new calendar. The calendar purchase poses an interesting challenge, mainly because it has to pique your interests and impress your friends for a whole year. I usually cave on creativity and get an arty calendar from a nearby Borders. 2009 was Ansel Adams and 2008 was Roy Lichtenstein—this should maybe tell you...
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Flint Underground Music Archive
I just discovered an online music archive of Flint MI’s angst-ridden bands of the 80’s and 90’s. Moreover, a photograph of my cousin and his ax in ‘85 back when he played for the Bloody Coup…
See more rawk gods of the Flint underground music scene here — http://www.takenoprisoners.info/index.html
Personal Statements Are Hard to Write
Totally excited about starting library school next month online at University of Wisconsin-Milwuakee, but I’m the cliched, down-on-her-luck broke student. After some proofreading, what you see below is most likely the statement I’ll be sending out to scholarship committees. I think it says it all.
During my Shakespeare studies at Oxford, I didn’t particularly like the famed...