New Directions

At the end of June, I will be leaving libraries with a decade of experience under my belt thus far. I have accepted a job offer in Ohio, the Administrative Assistant to the CEO of the company. There is a lot of organization and keeping on top of things involved, both of which coincide with both my library and theater stage management experience. I will continue the blog as able because I am still planning on pursuing my education and eventually a Masters in Library Science, but I might experiment with different directions that this blog might be able to go, while still fitting in with the original nerdy library roots. I'm very excited by this move, as it puts me close to family and my best friend, who happened to be moving to the same area already, and is a wonderful opportunity to grow in a larger and more diverse society, as well as the career opportunity. (There is also currently a "coming soon" sign for a public library right down the street from where our apartment will be--I'm very excited to get in there and review/compare its services and organizations and collections: nerd heaven. :) )

Another life update: to commemorate my decade anniversary of working in libraries, I got a tattoo of it! I came up with the design when I took a pop culture class on comics and graphic novels. I found that the title I choose, PN-8-1-1-2-3, was really a classification of myself and my main interests, how I've found that ink runs in my veins.
As with all my tattoos, there is symbolism behind every part of the tattoo. The PN is the Library of Congress classification system, used commonly in academic libraries. 811, 812 and 813 are Dewey Decimal call numbers and are commonly used in public libraries. They are arranged as such because my roots are in public libraries. PN is literature, 811 is poetry, 812 drama and 813 fiction.

One day I'll have to tell you more about the graphic novel class I took. Until then, you're able to view most of the books we read on my shelfari account (to the right).
Also, I'm taking American Literature II right now and I'm working on putting up the novels we've been reading in the second half of the semester.

I always mean to update much more than I do, but life, work and school are a lot to juggle and upkeep at once--sometimes the fun things get pushed to the side. C'est la vie, yes?