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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “The Main Event” – 2009 Canadian Library Association Conference @adr @jessamyn

I have so many fond memories of different experiences during my fifteen (!) years as a public librarian. One of the most memorable was being invited to represent public libraries in a pre-conference session put on by the Emerging Technologies group of CLA. As if being the representative for basically all public libraries in the […]

Friday Fun Link – 3-Day Novel Contest Locked in A Chapters Bookstore

A writer I know recently posted about a contest he participated in where he spent three days in a Chapters bookstore trying to write a novel. The contest was put on by Book Television, a Canadian specialty channel that closed last year. When I worked in the cultural non-profit sector, I remember writing a letter […]

¶ Posted 04 March 2022 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, book

How Non-Librarians Imagine A Librarian’s Typical Work Day

From McSweeney’s…

¶ Posted 16 February 2022 § Censorship § Humour § Jobs § Library § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, freedomtoreadweek

Saturday Snap – I See A Lot of Home Fries In My Future!

Maybe a year ago, a coworker hooked me up with a guy who sells 50 lb bags of misshapen potatoes. And of course, when I picked up the first time, it turned out he’s a library patron I knew! In fact, after chatting with him during my most recent pickup, I even ended up sending […]

¶ Posted 12 February 2022 § Library § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, food

Saturday Snap – Life’s Too Short For Unsalted Butter

In light of yesterday’s post where I happened to share the screenshot a portion of a life advice article that said we should eat salted butter as life is too short for unsalted, I thought I’d post a pic I happened to snap at Safeway recently. Saying “life is too short for unsalted butter” may […]

¶ Posted 29 January 2022 § MemoryLane § Photo § Sad § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, health, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Family Literacy Day (January 2018)

Happy Family Literacy Day! Here’s some pics from a Family Literacy Day event we had at the library a few years back…

¶ Posted 27 January 2022 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education

A Few Random Covid Thoughts

A coworker observed that an occupational hazard of working in a place where we hand out rapid tests kits is the risk of people over sharing *why* they want the tests. This gives you this wild anecdotal taste of how widespread Covid is right now – business owners, parents, students, neighbours on each side of […]

¶ Posted 19 January 2022 § Family § List § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, education, health

I’ve Heard of Different Bra Sizes But N95 is Ridiculous!

My co-worker observed that the two masks laying on my desk at work looked like a bra and she wasn’t wrong. 😉

¶ Posted 05 January 2022 § Humour § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, health

Music Monday – “And so the days float through my eyes/But still the days seem the same/And these children that you spit on/As they try to change their worlds/Are immune to your consultations/They’re quite aware of what they’re goin’ through”

“Changes” – David Bowie

¶ Posted 03 January 2022 § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Some Recent Covid-Related Tweets

One of the hardest things about the pandemic is trying to keep up with the latest news/developments/theories (and the fact these are ever-changing gives a lot of fuel to anti-vaxxers which is a different discussion.) Even as a trained librarian who’s pretty obsessively following the latest in Covid news, I’m the first to admit I […]