Update

After some harassing on the part of my good friend Laura, I’ve decided to update my little egg salad sandwiches blog. There are a few things that have happened while I’ve let it fall to the way side, and you can expect detailed entries about those events later (specifically, my work placement). I’m 90% sure that Sherri half had in mind that we use these blogs to update eachother on the details of our work placements anyway.

So, while delayed, here I am!

First off, we have a new reference instructor. Her arrival has thrown my schedule into conniptions, and almost pushed me to quit my job. I stuck it out though, despite the fact that I can no longer work my monday evening short shift (which, if you’d heard me complaining, was the only shift I was getting per week). I talked to Bruce about my horrible flexibility, and he has graciously accommodated me, by ‘creating’ a sunday short shift for me. You should be aware that a Sunday short shift doesn’t exist for a reason, in the way that there is not enough work for three servers on sunday nights.

There go my tips and half my income. We’ll see if I can work through it and make it to summer, when I can get a real job.

Speaking of which, I applied for that cataloguing job in Alberta. I spent five minutes with my mouse hovering over the send button before I was able to click it. It was quite nerve wracking. But now that I haven’t heard anything back, I’m beginning to think my worry was useless. I probably won’t get the job, and just go back to Smith Carter this year. Not that Smith Carter is a bad thing. I loved it there, fantastic environment, and hopefully I’ll move up in the workplace and either get a raise, or be doing part time secretarial work.

I’ve procrastinated something awful on the big projects, but I’m not behind on any of the small ones. So I’ve only been half stressing about school. I just have to remember to breathe, and that if I work hard, I’ll get it done.

I’m so glad I was at U of W for my work placement though. I got to research gazetteers every day there, in the way that I’d pull them off shelves and try and make first hand research notes about them. I learned so much, everyone there was so nice, and I was called a ‘quick learner’ (by Kim in course reserves), and one of the circulation staff said I was a breath of fresh air. I noticed that quite a few of the staff were pretty stereotypical librarians; standoffish, if you know what I mean. I tried to be as friendly as possible, and I think I made a few friends.

I also learned ridiculous amounts. I may have changed my mind about working in a school library. Academic is the way to go! But, I suppose I should get through my other work placements before I make up my mind. Maybe I’ll apply to be a part time circ. staff helper person type thing at U of W?

Book talks are coming up. Well, they’ve already started, but mine isn’t scheduled until april 1 (right before pathfinders are due and right after my reference presentation…). All the ones I’ve seen so far will be hard to live up to, but hopefully I’ll find a way. I have a local author for my book. Laura’s uncle, to be exact. I read the manuscript for his book when I was about 13, and I bought it to support him. It’s totally an autographed copy.

Anyway, this Nathan Town guy is pretty funny, and you should check out his website.