I apologize for being lax in my updates as well as perusing my Flist. End of the semester was approaching and I wanted to get some last minute projects completed as well as my one final exam. I did manage to complete everything, unfortunately I failed my final, even though I thought I had a lot of reasonable answers. I was going to do a retake, but I missed the deadline by thatmuch. I hope it doesn’t affect my GPA too much so that I can maintain my Honor Society membership, but if it does, it just means I need to be more diligent. The end game is the degree anyway, and I can get that with either a 3.5 or a 3.0 GPA…
We’re approaching summer and warmer weather. I was out dropping off some library books and getting my allergy shot and I was pretty hot by the time I finished, which also made me somewhat hostile and cranky. I had to tell the lady at the circulation desk that there were pages torn from the two graphic novels I checked out. She seemed to not know anything about it and thanked me for letting her know. I mean, I realize the books were very ‘adult’ in subject matter. One was the GN compilation of From Hell by Alan Moore about the Jack the Ripper murders and the other was Habibi by Craig Thompson. Both were quite good and did not shy away from some very heavy subject matter, but if the torn pages were the result of some sort of censorship, it was the wrong way to do it. Not only is it destruction of public property, but it’s a grievous disservice to anyone who wanted to read those books later on down the line. So I assume the library now has to spend money to replace the books that were damaged. Especially since the missing pages were just that. Missing.
/future librarian rant
Mom had intended to fill out some documentation from the county about maybe having them pay for her Medicare since we’re receiving assistance from them for food and stuff, but she decided not to since she said they wanted her to give them information she wasn’t willing to give. I have to look at the paperwork myself to see what she means. If it were me, I’d suck it up and do it anyway, especially if it was going to save me money. Who knows?
I’m going to try to make a concentrated effort to actually do stuff this summer as opposed to vegging out in front of the TV. While I do need to catch up on some stuff from my DVR, I’d like to try to make it to the gym on a regular basis since I already pay for a membership as well as maybe doing some of my Pilates down in the basement. Maybe I’ll even make it to the pool once or twice this summer since we now have a key and they power washed it the other day. I have to do it before the kids get out of school for the summer, though if I want to have any privacy. We’ll see what happens.
I don’t know if I mentioned it on here or not, but my dad had mentioned something to me about going with them to Washington DC sometime in October. I’d definitely like to try to go since DC is one of my favorite places and I live closer to it now than I did before. Granted, it’s still six hours away by car, but still… I have a few days off of school around then and I think I can do it. I have to see what my Practicum schedule is like before I make any definite plans. October would be a good time to go since the weather will be cooler than and the fall colors will be out. The last two times I went, it was in the middle of summer and it was insufferable.
I’ll try to scroll through my flist so that I can see what everyone has been up to lately.
We’re approaching summer and warmer weather. I was out dropping off some library books and getting my allergy shot and I was pretty hot by the time I finished, which also made me somewhat hostile and cranky. I had to tell the lady at the circulation desk that there were pages torn from the two graphic novels I checked out. She seemed to not know anything about it and thanked me for letting her know. I mean, I realize the books were very ‘adult’ in subject matter. One was the GN compilation of From Hell by Alan Moore about the Jack the Ripper murders and the other was Habibi by Craig Thompson. Both were quite good and did not shy away from some very heavy subject matter, but if the torn pages were the result of some sort of censorship, it was the wrong way to do it. Not only is it destruction of public property, but it’s a grievous disservice to anyone who wanted to read those books later on down the line. So I assume the library now has to spend money to replace the books that were damaged. Especially since the missing pages were just that. Missing.
/future librarian rant
Mom had intended to fill out some documentation from the county about maybe having them pay for her Medicare since we’re receiving assistance from them for food and stuff, but she decided not to since she said they wanted her to give them information she wasn’t willing to give. I have to look at the paperwork myself to see what she means. If it were me, I’d suck it up and do it anyway, especially if it was going to save me money. Who knows?
I’m going to try to make a concentrated effort to actually do stuff this summer as opposed to vegging out in front of the TV. While I do need to catch up on some stuff from my DVR, I’d like to try to make it to the gym on a regular basis since I already pay for a membership as well as maybe doing some of my Pilates down in the basement. Maybe I’ll even make it to the pool once or twice this summer since we now have a key and they power washed it the other day. I have to do it before the kids get out of school for the summer, though if I want to have any privacy. We’ll see what happens.
I don’t know if I mentioned it on here or not, but my dad had mentioned something to me about going with them to Washington DC sometime in October. I’d definitely like to try to go since DC is one of my favorite places and I live closer to it now than I did before. Granted, it’s still six hours away by car, but still… I have a few days off of school around then and I think I can do it. I have to see what my Practicum schedule is like before I make any definite plans. October would be a good time to go since the weather will be cooler than and the fall colors will be out. The last two times I went, it was in the middle of summer and it was insufferable.
I’ll try to scroll through my flist so that I can see what everyone has been up to lately.
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