Living Outside the Stacks

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    Day 30: My Hopes, Dreams and Plans for the Next 365 Days

    31 December 2010 / 2 Comments

    This is the time of year when people start writing resolutions and planning to make big changes for the new year and, I can’t lie, I tend to do the same thing.  So writing this post should come easy but it doesn’t.  Every year I make grand plans and, for the most part, I do a good job of following through.  Until March.  I don’t know why, but March is my “quitting month.” So this year, rather than writing out a list of resolutions, I will share my hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days (with the knowledge that, ultimately, everything is in His hands and it is…

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    Day 28: What’s in My Grab Bag?

    28 December 2010 / 8 Comments

    What do you carry in your handbag or wallet?

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    Makeup~Free Mondays: Week 3

    20 December 2010 / 2 Comments

    Yay!  I’ve made it to the third week in the Makeup~Free Mondays Challenge.  If you don’t know about the challenge, please check out The Beauty Bean. Today was our Christmas Party at work and I was totally and completely makeup~free and it didn’t bother me a bit, nor did it detract from my festive mood. Today’s Makeup~Free Monday tip is to smile!  My husband often says that when I’m walking down the street or working on something, I have on “The Face.”  I used to think he was just blowing smoke until one day I saw “The Face in the reflection of a window.  Talk about scary.  No wonder people…

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    Day 25: My Day in Great Detail

    15 December 2010 / 3 Comments

    Be prepared to be incredibly bored…. 06:15  Wake up 06:30  Drive the kids to the bus stop 06:35~07:00  Watch a variety of news programs; I start with Fox News, flip to CNN then land on The Daily Buzz (Fox bothers me because of the political and familial nepotism, CNN rocks it out with their music snippets but I get bored with the small talk) 07:00~08:00  Watch The Early Show; during an Estee Lauder commercial I’m reminded again of the wonder and whimsy that is Regina Specktor’s voice. 08:00~08:30  Watch All in the Family ~ that show is classic, the humor dead on and the topics still applicable today. 08:30~10:30  Go…

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    Day 23: Party in the Library (A YouTube Video)

    11 December 2010 / 0 Comments

    Nerds, G33ks and other Info Peeps, here ya go… Do you have a favorite video on YouTube?

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    Day 22: Websites I Enjoy When I Need to Revisit My Youth

    10 December 2010 / 1 Comment

    I’m such a retro chick.  I love TV Land and Nick at Nite, especially when they go old school and air shows like All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, Good Times.  In fact, I try to find ways to work retro TV shows and music into just about every class I teach.  Those shows dealt with topics such as abortion, rape, death, homosexuality, aging, racism and economic woes with more depth, humor and intelligence than many of the shows on air today.  Anyway, two websites that help to feed my flashback needs are Hulu and YTTM. Hulu allows you to watch television shows (both old and new), I use…

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    Day 19: My Talent

    5 December 2010 / 1 Comment

    Is the ability to slay confusion with the appropriate resource one reference question at a time… I can also balance a stack of books, a cup of coffee and a cell phone while fixing a paper jam without breaking a sweat. What’s your talent?  Do you use your powers for good or evil?

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    Day 17: An Art Piece

    3 December 2010 / 3 Comments

    Whew!  Thank you for sticking with me this far.  You guys are awesome!

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    Day 16: Songs that Make Me Want to Cry

    2 December 2010 / 2 Comments

    I actually have two songs that can bring me to tears at the drop of a hat:  Troubles of this World and Here I am to Worship. Troubles of this World, sung by Mahalia Jackson during the funeral scene in my favorite movie, Imitation of Life.  It was also my father’s favorite song and was played during his funeral. Here I am to Worship sung by Heather Headley.  When I listen to this song, I just visualize Christ suffering all sorts of torment, being nailed to the cross and then rising after three days for me ~ I can’t help but to weep way down in my soul…. Is there…

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  • About Me,  Books

    How I Became a Librarian

    2 December 2010 / 7 Comments

    The other day I read a post on Bobbi’s blog, Librarian By Day, about a potential MLIS student who was looking for advice on whether or not she should go to library school and it got me to thinking about why I became a librarian and whether or not I’d recommend this as a career choice for, say, one of my kids. I didn’t grow up wanting to be a librarian but I knew whatever I did, it would have something to do with helping people.  (I actually wanted to be a journalist.  Or a spy.  Either way, I thought I’d be covering coups in third world countries or something.…

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