A Ghost of Daisies

Done in class. I was super inspired by talking shop with Shiver today.

A great presentation in LIS 650 today about the Greensboro Public Library.

Current Design:

The Redesign In Progress Using The WordPress Theme, Arthemia:

This is half of my job as a graduate assistantship this semester.

I had to play catch up and read five chapters today due to various circumstances.

Toxic Managers continues to annoy me a little. I keep feeling that the author thinks you can pigeonhole people into particular areas and then work around a truly horrible person. I’m not sure that this is possible….

I’m not sure I have anything meaningful to add aside from noting that we talked about tips to do the collaboration project.

It is the age of social media with Facebook on top of the heap. Through this medium which I obsessively check multiple times a day did I receive notice from another friend’s mom that Mrs. Scales had passed away on Monday. It took me several moments for it to sink in and then I went to the living room. I looked up, up into the perfect blue of the sky with the clouds puffed here and there. The grass is vibrant green across the way now and the buds have been on the trees for a few days. I then sank down onto the couch arm and cried. I can’t express quite what I’m feeling, what I’m thinking, but its akin to a sheer sense of terror that goes into your stomach and eats out your heart.

Next I called my mom and we talked about it.

Then tonight I left this message on the funeral home’s guest book:

It’s strange, but the clearest memory I can form all these years later is coming over to play with Jessica in 7th or 8th grade and Mrs. Scales asks us to help her with something. We ended up sitting at the table folding papers for her church and sticking them into envelopes. Also Jessica’s 7th grade birthday party so everyone was running in and out of the house and another time we were trick or treating in the 8th grade. I came over several times that year though I hadn’t thought about it in quite some time.

I’m a little behind/confused about what chapters need to be covered in class, so I’m posting an assortment of notes here as I go through them.

CCDL ch. 7-9
Toxic Managers ch. 13-16

I haven’t been updating as of late because my soul is slowly being sucked into the crater that is the Drupal testing website. I spent nearly the entirety of my Spring Break working on it with little to show for it. However, today I began to make progress and created some menus and links as I played around with it. I think I’m on the event horizon and soon it’ll start to get all gravy and I’ll just flow into the zone where I know how to make it work.

At least I hope so.

I read this chapter before Spring Break but was lazy about getting around to typing up my notes. Now that I’m on the other side and looking back, I find it darkly humorous that I’ve gained insight that school media is not the field of librarianship that I want to enter into.

I was on Spring Break this past week and slacked doing homework in favor of making up hours for work. I found a new way to take notes for Toxic Managers, so what I have here is more or less directly copied and pasted from the text.