{"id":196,"date":"2005-05-23T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T19:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/196"},"modified":"2005-05-23T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T19:48:17","slug":"i-blinded-myself-with-library-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/196","title":{"rendered":"I blinded myself with library science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23527133@N00\/15328133\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos13.flickr.com\/15328133_b84d7f99e8_o.gif\" alt=\"vdsheblinded\" width=\"130\" height=\"100\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>I have just been offered a graduate assistantship in the chemistry library at the U of Illinois. Woot! I&#8217;ve been stressing about this for months now,   even though a lot of GAs aren&#8217;t even up for grabs yet. Getting hired as a GA was the last thing on my list of stuff I HAD to take care of before August. See,   assistanships pay for instate tuition,   benifits, vacation, etc. There was no way I was going to go to grad school without a graduate assistantship. This particular job is going to be mainly helping the chem library go from being mainly print based to 99% electronic. It&#8217;s a stellar experience, because lots of libraries will have to tackle this issue at some point. Seriously, this was the last thing I needed to do. I have been accepted to the program, I have an apartment, I have an hourly gig with the Center for Children&#8217;s Books, I have my sweet Abbott freelancing gig, and now I have the last piece all fit in. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23527133@N00\/15328409\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos12.flickr.com\/15328409_29bc058470_m.jpg\" width=\"148\" height=\"240\" alt=\"History%20of%20Chemistry1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Now I just need to max and relax until August. I&#8217;ve learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/nounatron.com\/index.php\/Main\/Tim\">Tim<\/a> that I should take this time of minor responsibility as a golden age, because I will be stressed to the gills come fall. I wonder if I can get the second level of the knitting masters program done before I go &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been offered a graduate assistantship in the chemistry library at the U of Illinois. Woot! I&#8217;ve been stressing about this for months now, even though a lot of GAs aren&#8217;t even up for grabs yet. Getting hired as a GA was the last thing on my list of stuff I HAD to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-did-it-for-schmience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}