Do do do what you done done done....

It's been awhile since my last post, no doubt because my workplace is done with our "techplay" session (so now is it "techwork"??) and I haven't had time at work to post! But since the last post, I have been duly graduated from library school! I am now a card-carrying librarian; an MSLIS (Master of Science in Library and Information Science); an alumna of the University of Illinois GSLIS Program (thankfully, NOT implicated in the latest Clout U Scandal----trust me, NObody wrote a letter or made a phone call on MY behalf!) Anyway, the degree itself arrived by mail a mere 3 months after my "official" graduation----now THAT'S efficiency for ya!

BUT--I'm out, and that's what counts. I did not go to campus for the graduation ceremony; I participated "virtually" via computer. I felt this was appropriate because 1) this was a mostly online program and 2) I was too cheap to get a hotel room and/or park in Urbana to graduate with 10,000 of my closest friends. Plus, I was able to hear my name read out loud & simultaneously drink champagne while wearing my daughter's (appropriately blue) mortar board! How many grads can say all THAT?? My workplace also gave a charming grad party for me and 3 graduating co-workers (2 from high school and 1 from college) which made me feel like some kind of Elder Stateswoman or something. Plus there was ice cream; what's not to like?

I was able to attend the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago this summer (on my own dime, though my employer generously paid for food & parking), which was fun. I saw cronies from grad school, attended some interesting and useful (and some not-so) sessions, and got a lot of fun SWAG to bring back to the library. (I kept the pre-pub latest Lorrie Moore for my husband as well as 2 llama finger puppets; I cannot explain the latter. I just had to have them!) So I suppose I'm no longer "Proto Librarian"--- but "Posto" sounds weird and its semi-logical follower "Postal" sounds even worse, though considering we just finished Summer Reading, perhaps it's not far off! :D J/K, as the youngsters say (just kidding); I actually love Summer Reading & consider myself the Queen of M & M Bingo. August will no doubt be Dullsville in comparison. But before we know it, school will start (thankfully, NOT for me!) and we'll be back in the groove. Is change good? I don't know. Change is just....change!