Volunteer to proofread for Project Gutenberg!

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This is a word geek’s secret pleasure. Yes, editing can be a drag. Proofing is editing’s ugly younger cousin from Nebraska. Distributed Proofreaders is a volunteer organization that provides proofing for Project Gutenberg.

Distributed Proofreaders

Still, having a hand in proofing all the public domain books that are being digitized is a good, helpful thing. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to read an article for class that has a misspelling because it wasn’t proofed. We might as well work on this as the stuff comes out, instead of waiting until it’s a problem.

Come on, sign up. I’m going to, and I’m super cool.

buy my teeshirt!

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As I said earlier, I won the teeshirt contest, and now this awesome graphic is going to be spread thusly. If there’s anyone who would like one, here’s the order form!

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The price is $13 per shirt, in black, brown, charcoal, red, navy, and kelly green (with white ink). There are also sweet french cut/fitted tees for $16 each in black, brown, charcoal in white ink and light pink and light blue with black ink.

Here’s me in last year’s shirt. It’s a french cut brown with white ink:
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This one’s a large, so think big when choosing a size.

Orders are due by Nov 8 (what?! ah!) If you don’t have the time or discipline to get a check in the mail, or want me to pick up your shirt so you don’t pay shipping, email me at sundaykofax (at) gmail.com. We’ll work something out. Also, I know they buy extra shirts, so if you’re really inept, you might get lucky when you think about this in three months and then spend 45 minutes googling trying to remember where you read this.

Stephanie Alexander is pregant/famous

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As I said earlier, I won the teeshirt contest, and now this awesome graphic is going to be spread thusly. If there’s anyone who would like one, here’s the order form!

this not this

The price is $13 per shirt, in black, brown, charcoal, red, navy, and kelly green (with white ink). There are also sweet french cut/fitted tees for $16 each in black, brown, charcoal in white ink and light pink and light blue with black ink.

Here’s me in last year’s shirt. It’s a french cut brown with white ink:
IMG_7504

This one’s a large, so think big when choosing a size.

Orders are due by Nov 8 (what?! ah!) If you don’t have the time or discipline to get a check in the mail, or want me to pick up your shirt so you don’t pay shipping, email me at sundaykofax (at) gmail.com. We’ll work something out. Also, I know they buy extra shirts, so if you’re really inept, you might get lucky when you think about this in three months and then spend 45 minutes googling trying to remember where you read this.
Congrats to Stephanie,
for being featured in the Daily Q&A on the NANOWRIMO website! Check the lower left-hand side of the page.

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She used the photo I took of her, too. Props all around! A rubber chicken for you! A hairspray-covered mirror for me!

Link to the full text of the Q&A.

Applying Elliott Smith to Library Science

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As I sat down tonight with my cup of tea to read the required articles for this week, I noted how old they were – by no means a deviation from this semester’s norm. For some reason, the next thing that happened was the title line popped into my head “everything means nothing to me”.

My synapses are poignant as fuck. (Hi, Mom.)

It seems all the articles I’m reading are horribly outdated, and I’m just not taking them seriously anymore. I’m not sure why my brain connected my frustration to Elliott Smith’s song, but it was kind of neat.

Now I have to go play that song, so it isn’t stuck in my head all night.

The night time is the right time

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Click the image for the Flickr set!

Man, the next generation of librarians are going to rule. We had the GSLIS* Halloween party last night at Jason and my place. Kasey hosted as well, and the whole thing went off without a hitch. There was booze, there were snacks, and there were crazy crazy librarians (and opera singers and drummers and neighbors) all over the place. Highlights included Artemis breaking her bow, Makers Mark, and my favorite part: Dance Party USA. So librarians shake it as well as booze it. I knew I picked the right profession. I managed to not get tanked (Hi Mom!) and even got up and put all the pictures I have on Flickr.

Now I’m off to Chicago for more Halloweening and staying at the B&B B&B. Maybe I’ll even get some work done in the car.

*Graduate School of Library and Information Science
I managed to squeeze four weekends into my weekend. I hosted a party, cleaned up a party, drove to Chicago, partied in Chicago, got a ton of work done, watched TV and played Truncated Pursuit (Trivial Pursuit without the cards), came home from Chicago, and was in bed early enough to not be cranky today.

I honestly believe that this is the best picture ever.
how do you like them apples?
Thanks, Kim!

Librarian Halloween

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Click the image for the Flickr set!

Man, the next generation of librarians are going to rule. We had the GSLIS* Halloween party last night at Jason and my place. Kasey hosted as well, and the whole thing went off without a hitch. There was booze, there were snacks, and there were crazy crazy librarians (and opera singers and drummers and neighbors) all over the place. Highlights included Artemis breaking her bow, Makers Mark, and my favorite part: Dance Party USA. So librarians shake it as well as booze it. I knew I picked the right profession. I managed to not get tanked (Hi Mom!) and even got up and put all the pictures I have on Flickr.

Now I’m off to Chicago for more Halloweening and staying at the B&B B&B. Maybe I’ll even get some work done in the car.

*Graduate School of Library and Information Science

It’s all coming together.

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I’ve been having a bit of a heart wrench lately, thinking about what kind of hot librarian I want to be when I’m done with the program.

I’ve known I wanted to be a children’s librarian since I was in high school, and I came to school with that as my goal. I started volunteering in the conservation library (The Place that Fixes Broken Books) and have kind of fallen in love with it. I’m not as much a fan of preservation – that means writing reports and guidelines and grants – but I do love fixin’ books.

So I talked to the amazing Jennifer Hain Teper today about how I could possibly mash-up these two happy things. She, of course, had the answer I wanted to hear. She described having a background in conservation as a cookie. I’d be a public library young adult librarian candidate with a wonderful, useful, not-common cookie. A sidehatch, if you will.

I feel so much better about spending all this time in the conservation lab, and I’m going to sign up for a practicum next semester that will allow me to learn about how preservation and conservation in a public library works – because public libraries often do not have a good system for this – and I will be even more valuable as a possible employee. That makes me feel extra smug about it.

The Blind Man, you say?

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I’ve been biking by this all semester, and just had to share:

The Blind Man

If you notice, there is a blind guy entangled in those vertical shades. Tasteless or hilarous? I think we can take a page out of the “Family Guy” book. Here, let me show you:

Greased up naked blind guy

It’s the greased up naked blind guy!

“You’re never gonna catch me! You’re wasting your time. Go do something else!”

I won the tee shirt contest!

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Here’s my winning tee shirt design. (And by “my”, I mean “The Hendersons, who gave a lecture on preservation”.)

This, not this

I suppose if you non-GSLIS folks want one, I could wrangle it. Marti?