what a week

already i’m a bad blogger… no updates in more than a week, oy vey this little project is gonna be tough.

my classes rock (that’ll be another post entirely) and my colleagues are really an interesting bunch (with an bizarrely large number of philosophy majors). and i met a girl from Gimli, Manitoba! see, i already know someone from gimli who played for my rugby club, and he made the town sound so teeny that i never thought i’d ever meet another person from there. but i did, and she’s cool (let’s me call her “gimli”).

i was also lucky enough to be elected VP/President-elect of the student chapter of the Special Library Association at school. i went to the SLA conference this summer in Baltimore and every person i met did a wildly different job but almost all of them had MLIS degrees. so i’m pretty pumped to be involved in the student group for the next two years!

i’m hoping to post a whole whack of entries over the next few days to make up for the neglect my poor blog has received over the past 10 days.

i start library skül soon

well after two years spent finishing up what was almost a never-ending bachelor’s degree (in political science and women’s studies, thank you very much) with the singular view of beginning my MLIS, i am now on the eve of my big adventure in library-dom.

i’m nervous about starting school on wednesday (two days of orientation!)

i came back to university after many many years off in the real world with a view to an MLIS degree. being a full-time undergrad for the past two years has been a challenge (especially considering i was 10 years older than some of my classmates – the things kids say these days!) but totally worth it to get to this point.

the application process was stressful en taberouette* because i was on the waiting list at my no. 1 school and had to turn down offers from two other universities (this one, and this one) while keeping all of my fingers and toes crossed that i would not have to leave home (and hubby) for school. but it all worked out in the end, though i have a few more grey hairs these days…

anyway – i realise that it’s almost de rigeur for MLIS students to have a blog, so i appreciate that my little old blog is hardly ground-breaking. along with interesting links to stuff i find, i’ll also be detailing the nitty-gritty of library school, which i found sorely lacking (except for Jason Hammond’s blog which is brilliant) when i was looking for the truth about what the experience would be like.

oh, and this is my first venture in blog-dom, so we’ll see how that goes. i consider myself a bit of a techy, but must admit to being fairly unfamiliar with all the 2.0 stuff out there… so this blog is the first step.

cheers!

amy

*that’s québécois for those of you not from my neck o’the woods. means “like a mofo.”