Had a long day today – discussed an assignment with my 503 instructor (“discussed” might not be the best word to use but I'm trying to be polite), met with the Acting Associate Dean to discuss an upcoming speaker in our speaker series and also to get approval to do an Individual Study project as […]
One of the first things our class did when we started was set-up a Yahoo! listserv so all us first termer's would have a way to easily communicate with each other without having to use official class lists (which aren't necessarily meant for that purpose anyhow.) So far the listserv has facilitated discussion of assignments, […]
Talking to someone about the Spirit of Librarianship nomination and they observed: “You are the only person stupid enough to actually want to work in a public library that is smart enough to know what that means.”
Hello to any visitors from the Alberta library and writing communities. Thanks to all of you who took the time to respond to my e-mail queries regarding user fees in Alberta libraries. All comments, on both sides of the issue, were very useful. I've put my paper online (141 kb PDF) and I think it's […]
TEN REASONS I HATE GEORGE W. BUSH 1. He thinks he is right all the time and will not admit to errors, even when he is proven wrong over and over again. 2. He only sees one way of doing things, only one right answer. 3. He mangles the language constantly, often using bad metaphors […]
The official list of nominees for the Spirit of Librarianship Award was released the other day. It's too bad they don't give you a little blurb on who people are and why they were nominated as I think that would help people make up their minds, especially if you don't know some (any) of the […]
Just finished my 504 research proposal that's due in, oh, six hours and a bit. This isn't really a case of “last-minute-itis” though. (I've been working pretty hard on it for the last two weeks.) Instead, it's another problem I've discovered here that I never had an undergrad. Namely, I can't let things go. I […]
“I get most of my calories and all of my self-esteem from beer.” “Do I know you?” “I'm in your class.” “Oh, I only have time to meet the alcoholics in that class.” “I think we need a pellet gun. Or we could just throw empty glasses.” “Bugs Bunny had some pretty racist early cartoons. […]
I love the Overhead at Western blog Shea and I have taken to walking around campus saying the stupidest things we can think of in the hopes of making it on the page ourselves. But how can we compete with brilliance like this? Wait. There's really a Saskatchewan?! Girl: There is totally like, no Regina […]
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Posted 30 March 2006
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Looking at that calendar on the left side, I realise that I've never done an entry on a Friday since starting this blog a month and a half ago. I conceivably have from 12am on Thursday night/Friday morning to 12am on Friday night/Saturday morning to do one and have it listed as a Friday entry. […]
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Posted 28 March 2006
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