No, it’s not a picture book title.  It’s me trying to put together my summer TV schedule.  Because goodness knows, I can’t miss anything important.  Here’s the deal:

 

Law and Order: Criminal Intent- When the writer’s strike happened, the LOCI execs elected to save the rest of the LOCI season for the summer, making them the only major network show running new episodes over the summer and thereby hopefully increasing viewership.  Sounds like a good theory– we’ll see if it works.  At any rate, new epis start June 8th, and I’m so ridiculously excited it’s not even funny.  The promo for the next ep, “Purgatory,” ends with Goren and Eames wide eyed, Glock-to-Glock.  DRAMA!!!

Army Wives- I miss me my Catherine Bell.  Sunday June 8th!  10pm!  Another cliffhanger season finale that I NEEEEEED to see resolved.

Jon and Kate Plus 8 seems to still be churning out new stuff, so that makes my Monday nights happy.  But Little People Big World is conspicuously absent, which makes me a bit sad.  What’s up with them anyway?  Last I saw there was major upheval in the Roloff world.  And speaking of crazy cliffhanger endings, Women’s Murder Club got cancelled, so we’ll never know how *that* cliffhanger ends.  Fanfic ahoy!  I’ve also got my eye on the E! channel for new eps of The Girls Next Door and Keeping up With the Kardashians.

…make it through cataloging this summer without failing or killing myself, it will be a bloody miracle.

If I actually LEARN something while I’m at it, that’d be a major bonus.

I now have my very own key to the organ practice room.

Be jealous, y’all

 

So if at any point between now and December you need to find me and can’t…. check Baird.  Holla.

My dear Dorothy always says “the funny thing about common sense is that it’s not so common.”  I’d like to apply that statement to library school.  The funny thing about library school is that is has very little to do with what *really* happens in libraries.  Maybe other specialties of librarians at my particular school do not find this to be true, but I as a public library specialist do.  Library school teaches you the theory of libraries.  Why libraries exist, why we have reference services, we have a library catalog, children need storytimes, etc. etc. etc.  But there is NO CLASS IN LIBRARY SCHOOL that teaches you things like “how to use the damned credit card machine” or “how to change the paper roll in the receipt machine” or “what to do when you are left stranded at the reference desk” or “that’s nice, but what do you do when your library doesn’t have a pot to piss in and 17,000 mouths to feed.”

This is why I hate library school.  I learn very little that I can practically apply to my future career.  Working at a library teaches you much more than going to class.  I wish I could just be an apprentice and write papers about what I learned and have that count as my degree.  It’d be so much more useful.

 

But, it’s only til December, and then my whole life gets turned upside down and I have to become a real adult and all that fun business, but that’s a rant for another entry.