I'm not dead yet, although I nearly was in the heat wave this week.

I finish up my library internship this week. I think I at least touched on everything we had planned for me to do, so that's a plus.

Getting ready for Amelia to come out and do our road trip cross country so I can have my car at school.

I think a nap might be in order today, but it probably won't happen.

Aaaah! There is an internship at the UPenn Anthro Museum archives that is so frigging perfect for me. I wants the precious! The deadline is Friday, and I'm definitely applying for it.

The only complicating factor is that I'm doing an internship right now for class credit here at home. But, I'm only doing that fifteen hours a week, so there's the possibility that I could speed that up so I could go back and start the UPenn one.

Home for the summer. I'm still not completely attuned to west coast time yet; it's 2 in the afternoon and I'm greatly tempted to go take a nap, which I think I'm going to do.

Cancer walk was this past weekend. Doug was up, as was Mom's younger sister, her brother and his wife, and my grandfather. I love them, but it's nice to have the house back to me, Mom, and the dogs. Speaking of the dogs, I'm constantly being glommed onto like nobody's business. It's nice to be loved, but I do like having free hands every so often.

Mom brought home a Wii on Thursday, the day I got home (flew in late Wednesday night, staying at a airport hotel in Sea-Tac, got a airport shuttle to Denny's, and was picked up by my mom). I'm debating the addictive qualities of the Wii.

I have an internship set up for the summer at St. Martin's University (really, a college, but they didn't want to "be confused for a community college") in Olympia. I'm going to get class credit for it, which is quite nice. Because of that, I only have to take three classes in the fall to complete my degree.

I went to see Star Trek today with my friend Katie. Definitely makes up for the mess that JJ Abrahms made of Mission: Impossible.

Janet Monge was quoted in this article on a mummified puppy. Apparently, an ancient Egyptian wanted to be buried with his doggy. And Janet Monge was involved. This does not surprise me.

We had our end of year MLIS party tonight at the log cabin. Yes, Rutgers has a log cabin at the botanical gardens that are well nigh impossible to get to unless you have a car. I want to go back there during the day when it isn't pouring rain to explore. Plus, they have a farmers' market that started today and is on every Friday through October.

On a different topic, I might well be driving my car back here in the Fall. I talked to my mom about it, and she's ameanable to the idea. So... Anyone want to road trip with me in August back to New Jersey?

Lessons from grad school: a saucepan makes a perfectly acceptable mixing bowl when you live in a grad student apartment and you're making brownies for a potluck the next day at 9 PM. I've been using it as a mixing bowl all year, actually.

Only a week and a half left, then home for the summer. And my unpaid field experience that I'm paying a huge amount of out of state tuition for. But, it'll mean only three classes in the fall.

I'm taking Manuscripts and Archives this semester, and for our final class next week (no readings this week, so I'm trying to get ahead) I read an interesting article: "Diaries, On-line Diaries, and the Future Loss to Archives; or, Blogs and the Blogging Bloggers Who Blog Them." It was a very interesting look at the history of diaries, and how archivists need to deal with the new form of diaries: blogs. Some of the readings for this class have been dry and boring as all get-out, but I enjoyed this article.

I just read the poetssociety link on the LJ main page as petssociety. I thought, "Oooh, a community for talking about your pets!" Yeah. Can you tell that I miss my dogs?

I am going home for the summer May 13th, though, so that's a good thing...

My family is doing the Relay for Life this year. I don't know if I'm emotionally ready to it, but my mom has my page set up that she's going to make a donation on. If you want to make a tax deductable donation to the American Cancer Society, please do so on my page: http://tinyurl.com/c8eeqr

Really? A Russian person adding the journal I started to do my Principles of Searching term project last semester? A journal that I haven't updated since I finished the project in early December? Come on, now.

I just looked out the window, saw a seagull, and for a brief moment thought it was a vulture. I'm not dead yet!

I think my phone is a) cheap and b) stupid. I freely admit that it's a prepaid phone, because Mom and I saw no reason to pay for an expensive monthly calling plan when I'm at home and not using it. Although, now that I'm school, Mom wants to get me on her calling plan so we can call each other on our cell phones for free.

But, I digress. My phone is stupid because it couldn't find a network to get a signal from on its own. But, when I told it to look for a new network, it found one within a couple seconds. Sigh.

Oh, joy of joys, the databases are back up in the dorms! I can access databases again from my room! Now I can write my Reference paper in my room.

Not that I did anything on it today besides make a title page. And make a header for my Health Sciences paper. Instead, I went out and bought chips and cookies. Which means my diet isn't going well. But, still. I blame part of it on absent willpower and part of it on the cold that is intermittently making me feel crappy. I mean, really, if I'm going to feel crappy, at least don't give me a day or two off in between crappy days. It gives me hope.

Plans to go to NYC this afternoon fell through, as Amelia realized that she had made other plans, and I slept in and am feeling on the dull normal side due to a possible cold. Amelia invited me to come down and hang with her and her friends, but I didn't feel like braving the bus and the train.

The bus is on the All Campuses schedule, since it's a weekend on Spring Break, so that involves riding around the Livingston and Cook/Douglass campuses before getting to the train station and the College Ave. campus. I discovered that this takes about 45 minutes to an hour yesterday, as Kilmer, the library I work at on Livingston, is closed for the weekend, and I needed to go to a library on campus to access some databases, since the Tech people screwed around somehow with the dorm IP addresses and didn't tell the database vendors. So, no database access in my room for about two weeks, and I have a paper that's due on the 26th for Reference (that I want to get done) that involves using online databases. Sigh.

I suppose I could have checked to see if LSM is open (science library on my campus), but still that would involve hiking over to LSM.

I've been not posting. Nothing really exciting going on, other than I went up to NYC on Wednesday to see Debbie Wang for a few hours.

The real purpose of my post is to comment on the geese that apparently make their living off of Rutgers' grounds. I've been alternately amused and annoyed by them. Now I am feeling a combination of both of those and some surprise. I think that the two geese I've seen outside of our building all week are currently mating, and they are quite noisy about it. I swear, they were just under my window honking like there's no tomorrow. Now they're over by the parking lot, still letting loose.

Anyone remember the geese that I was constantly amused by last semester?

That amusement has changed to annoyance. The geese have discovered the lawn outside of my apartment building and have proceeded to poop up and down the sidewalk. I am not amused. I have fantasies of hunting season. Not that I would hunt them, but they are quite annoying.

I'm going on an overnight trip to Boston to visit various libraries with LISSA, the MLIS club here at Rutgers, over Spring Break (Thursday 3/19 to Friday 3/20). I'm currently webmaster and have also volunteered to get restaurant recommendations/ideas from Boston area folks, and since a number of you seem to be located in that neck of the woods, I figured this might be a good forum to ask. And, of course, you all are definitely invited to come eat with us, if you don't mind hanging out with a bunch of librarians. We're fun, I promise!

We're staying at the Howard Johnson in Fenway and we'll be visiting one of the libraries at Harvard on Thursday (I think), so Fenway and Cambridge are the prime eating locations. Thanks!

I'm at work and the library is fairly quiet. Only one question in the past hour, and that was from a new student worker wanting to see Jill to get her paperwork filled out. Therefore, I am doing some reading for my Cataloging and Classification class.

I'm currently reading about the history of the FRBR cataloging rules and cataloging in general. Antonio Panizzi was an Italian that came up with the 91 Rules and organized the classification system for the British library. When he was put in charge of the classification project, there were Brits that didn't like the idea of an Italian being in charge of the British Library. One of the charges against Panizzi was that, supposedly, "Panizzi had been seen in the streets of London selling white mice." Makes you wonder about those folks in 19th century England, doesn't it?

I've finally decided to update, or at least I finally have some energy to update.

Cruise was quite fun. I swam with dolphins!

New Year's was at the Oregon Coast with Mom, Doug, Lisa, and Grandpa. We had a huge storm - at least 3 and a half inches of rain on New Year's Day.

There's still a lot of snow at our house. We couldn't get up the driveway, so we had to park the car at the bottom of the driveway at the neighbors. The contractor that's renovating the house dug out Dad's truck for us so Mom and I could run errands today. Mom's having the kitchen and bathroom redone, so we have no kitchen at the moment. They finished up the floor in the kitchen and living room today, so we're hoping that we can start moving back into the living room tomorrow. We might even have a finished bathroom by the end of next week.