Back home again!
Oct. 4th, 2018 10:09 pmIt was a whirlwind week and Canada was a little bit rainy but we still had fun. More detailed update, right now I'm just unwinding from the car ride home. Just sped read all your entries (I had DW/LJ 91 emails!!!) so I'm going to relax with the popular meme going around right now:
→ Comment with "We're going to need more coffee"
→ I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
→ Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
→ Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
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carbonpaper asked me:
1. I know you like to draw, so what is your favorite thing to doodle?
Little goofy smiley faces. I'll have to doodle one to show you, but they tend to have big, round Muppet-y eyes and their hair is standing up or spiked ala Bart Simpson and usually their smiling with their tongue hanging out (i.e. making a crazy face which is why they are usually doodled in the margins of my meeting notes).
2. What was your favorite book to get at the library when you were a kid?
Hm...I feel like that question would be better for my Mom LOL. Honestly (and this will tie into the next question a bit) in middle school I was obsessed with The Beatles so I spent a LOT of time checking out anything and everything about them and pouring over the photographs and facts. So I am going to say Beatles books.
3. What made you want to become a librarian? Just a love of books?
NOPE! In fact, it is probably better if you don't love books too much if you work at a library because you have to throw away so many of them on a daily basis. It is my love of information, which is really what the core of libraries are. Information used to come from books exclusively, but that is obviously not the case anymore. We are trying to move our "brand" away from books 24/7/365 because it is just not true. **puts soapbox under the bed**
Anyway, I became a librarian because I found myself wanting people to ask me questions. I did start out in libraries, I was a Page all through high school and college, putting books away on the shelves. I quit that job and wanted to do something "cool" so I worked for a radio station right after college. But what I realized after awhile was that I wanted people to call in and ask me about the artists, to answer their questions and it slowly dawned on my that there was a job like that! So I made my way back to the library and worked part-time for a year to see if it was really what I wanted. And I've never looked back. And in two weeks, I'm going to interview for manager position **crosses fingers**
4. What has been your favorite concert experience? Worst?
I've been to so many shows, but a few stick out in my mind - my first Pearl Jam concert, which broke all the "Don't meet random internet people" rules...but she had an LJ and an extra ticket, how could she be bad? LOL. But what made the concert memorable was I spent the entire night jumping and singing along and the person next to me said "Wow, you're cool!" and that had never happened before LOL.
Worst would probably be when I saw Paramore at the Fillmore and this group of obnoxious, wasted assholes pushed their way in front of us well into the show and then were loud and obnoxious and drunk in front of me. I just don't have time for that kind of bullshit, I am there to enjoy a band and you are wasted, you should go to a wasted area and leave me alone. This is when I can get a bit "gatekeeper" and I'm like REAL fans don't get drunk at shows and ruin it for everyone! Blargh. I had not left a concert angry before until that one.
5. Do you like living in Maryland?
While it can get expensive, I really do like it because you can't beat the location. I can get to so many places if I just drive for a bit. Philadelphia, NYC, Boston, Atlanta, all driveable distances. History is just lying around, again in a pretty close radius. Stuff happened here and there is always something going on. And we tend to be pretty progressive, at least as a state, though parts of my county not-so-much but whatever, I work in a public library so lots of progressive/liberally minded people as my coworkers which keeps me sane.
Every now and then I ponder the idea of moving but I don't know where I would go. Maybe further north, I do like New England and I have friends up that way. But most places are either too far from anything or too crazy expensive - I mean, it might be fun to live in California for a little bit but I'm pretty sure no librarian could afford that LOL.
→ Comment with "We're going to need more coffee"
→ I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
→ Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
→ Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
carbonpaper asked me:1. I know you like to draw, so what is your favorite thing to doodle?
Little goofy smiley faces. I'll have to doodle one to show you, but they tend to have big, round Muppet-y eyes and their hair is standing up or spiked ala Bart Simpson and usually their smiling with their tongue hanging out (i.e. making a crazy face which is why they are usually doodled in the margins of my meeting notes).
2. What was your favorite book to get at the library when you were a kid?
Hm...I feel like that question would be better for my Mom LOL. Honestly (and this will tie into the next question a bit) in middle school I was obsessed with The Beatles so I spent a LOT of time checking out anything and everything about them and pouring over the photographs and facts. So I am going to say Beatles books.
3. What made you want to become a librarian? Just a love of books?
NOPE! In fact, it is probably better if you don't love books too much if you work at a library because you have to throw away so many of them on a daily basis. It is my love of information, which is really what the core of libraries are. Information used to come from books exclusively, but that is obviously not the case anymore. We are trying to move our "brand" away from books 24/7/365 because it is just not true. **puts soapbox under the bed**
Anyway, I became a librarian because I found myself wanting people to ask me questions. I did start out in libraries, I was a Page all through high school and college, putting books away on the shelves. I quit that job and wanted to do something "cool" so I worked for a radio station right after college. But what I realized after awhile was that I wanted people to call in and ask me about the artists, to answer their questions and it slowly dawned on my that there was a job like that! So I made my way back to the library and worked part-time for a year to see if it was really what I wanted. And I've never looked back. And in two weeks, I'm going to interview for manager position **crosses fingers**
4. What has been your favorite concert experience? Worst?
I've been to so many shows, but a few stick out in my mind - my first Pearl Jam concert, which broke all the "Don't meet random internet people" rules...but she had an LJ and an extra ticket, how could she be bad? LOL. But what made the concert memorable was I spent the entire night jumping and singing along and the person next to me said "Wow, you're cool!" and that had never happened before LOL.
Worst would probably be when I saw Paramore at the Fillmore and this group of obnoxious, wasted assholes pushed their way in front of us well into the show and then were loud and obnoxious and drunk in front of me. I just don't have time for that kind of bullshit, I am there to enjoy a band and you are wasted, you should go to a wasted area and leave me alone. This is when I can get a bit "gatekeeper" and I'm like REAL fans don't get drunk at shows and ruin it for everyone! Blargh. I had not left a concert angry before until that one.
5. Do you like living in Maryland?
While it can get expensive, I really do like it because you can't beat the location. I can get to so many places if I just drive for a bit. Philadelphia, NYC, Boston, Atlanta, all driveable distances. History is just lying around, again in a pretty close radius. Stuff happened here and there is always something going on. And we tend to be pretty progressive, at least as a state, though parts of my county not-so-much but whatever, I work in a public library so lots of progressive/liberally minded people as my coworkers which keeps me sane.
Every now and then I ponder the idea of moving but I don't know where I would go. Maybe further north, I do like New England and I have friends up that way. But most places are either too far from anything or too crazy expensive - I mean, it might be fun to live in California for a little bit but I'm pretty sure no librarian could afford that LOL.
