This morning, I'm working on putting together an annotated bibliography (which incidentally seems to be a very library school-ish assignment, I'm finding out). This necessitates looking at a bunch of articles in tabs in firefox, and while most of the articles have serial identifiers as the tab title, one of them says, simply, "SCIENCE."

I might have to close it, because I keep laughing every time I look at it.

It's 12:15am on a Saturday night and I'm sitting in my chair, working on an assignment and watching snow pile up outside.

It's not the most exciting life, but it's got a kind of quiet charm that I'm sort of digging at the moment. I'm starting to think I could get used to this place.

Well, the sensory dep experience was really interesting, and I'm finally getting to a point where I can put the experience into some words. Expect a full account pretty soon, along with all the other crap I still need to post, like pics from our road trip and house. =P

However, right now I'm just getting ready for my first day of school. Yikes! Actually, I know it's going to go fine, but there are always butterflies at the start of a new adventure.

Wish me luck!

I got a nice bit of news today. One of the jobs that I applied for at FIS (library school, folks) got back to me and told me I was wanted! I'm going to be a Library Assistant at the Inforum come the start of the term. It's only 5-10 hours a week, and the pay is not as good as some of the jobs at the big library, but I'm going to meet lots of cool people and get my foot in the door. That's all that matters.

Just got back from watching 300, and I'm currently feeling too overstimulated to go to bed right away. So, a post you'll get!

Overall, I didn't like 300 as much as I liked Sin City. I think I was underwhelmed because they used a lot of the same camera tricks in both movies, and I was so blown away seeing them the first time that it lost a little of its impact this time. Some of those pauses were starting to drag out, too. At some points I felt like saying, "I get it, THIS IS A PANEL." Also, they didn't have as much cool variety in the bad guys as I would have hoped. Gripes aside, it's an entertaining and extremely violent romp. Don't take the kids.

I wrote my GRE today. It went well. I got a 640 verbal and a 780 quantitative.....yeah. I know what you're thinking, and I agree. That quant score is a joke, as anybody who knows me (or saw my scratch pad) can attest. I actually had little pictures of little guys representing different groupings of people, until I realized I could represent them with numbers! Still, I guess it makes up for the fact that I feel like I got a bad batch of questions for the verbal section. Meh, what can you do? They changed the analytical section to a writing exercise, which was good for me because I hate those logic puzzles. However, it means I don't get to find out how I did on that part until later. I've been second guessing myself all evening. Let it go.

Beyond that, nothing much. I accidentally joined a francophone guild in Warcraft, but so far I am enjoying it. The people are nice (I think), and I am sure they appreciate having somebody running around talking like a french Borat on their channel.

Just got done writing the first draft of my personal statement for Library school that doesn't make me puke when I reread it.

Spent an hour going through libraryschool and reading about various programs. I can't believe how many people out there want to be a reference librarian "to help people" or a damn children's librarian. I wonder if there's a faction of fledgling librarians out there that are like me, envisioning themselves crouching in a concrete underground complex with a shotgun in hand as legions of radioactive zombies prowl the ruins of North American civilization.

Ahem.

I didn't have the greatest GPA in college, but I think it's going to be OK. A lot of people seem to have that problem, and still get in. I think my on-the-job experience doesn't hurt, neither.