Recap Attack

Instead of writing a bunch of posts, today I'm just gonna fashion myself a bulleted list and pretend that I'm as organized as a librarian should be.

• Reference is getting annoying. First off, I work at a desk in an academic library. And now, while I'm A) crappy at it and B) not everyone in the class has that luxury, I still can figure out basic things on my own, without a ten minute lesson on how to search databases. When Paulette said she was going to go over something we all should know how to use from the site, I was imagining her busting out the reference resources--because those suckers are intense and I tend to stay away from them even though they are ah-mazing. No. Of course that is too advanced. Instead, let's ask questions about how to find articles. Are you kidding me? Are you effing kidding me? Thank god for blogs and laptops, because otherwise I wouldn't know what to do with myself during class.
  
  
• Last night was the YA author panel in the faculty lounge at SCILS. It was quite snazz-tastic. The featured authors were Bob Krech, Eireann Corrigan and Megan Mccafferty. It was definitely worth the late visit to SCILS and a great learning experience. I was pleasantly surprised that 2 of the panelists worked as teachers in addition to writing books; it gives me hope for the future. One of my biggest fears is that I'll finally get a real job at a school and never have time during the week to do something other than lesson-planning like my friend Dana, let alone write. So, phew, you can be a teacher and a wonderful writer. Excellent. Although, I can't personally say that I've read the books, so I am going on everyone else's words that they are awesome. I guess I will have to shelve my juvenille-fiction-only mentality to read their works. They all were such fun and interesting people that their books can't help but be good, right? Right. Plug time, so you can all read them with me:
• Megan Mccafferty's Fourth Comings(but it would probably be better to read the first three books beforehand)
• Bob Krech's Rebound
• Eireann Corrigan's Ordinary Ghosts
• Bonus: Eireann Corrigan's Splintering (because that just sounds interesting as hell)
  
  
• There is no logical leap for this, so I'll just put this out there. I miss the Secret World of Alex Mack. Badly. I yearn to watch a girl turn into silvery goo while wearing striped shirts from Sears and overalls. What a great premise. Her dad works at a radioactive chemical plant, and Alex, being in the wrong place at the wrong time (which is obviously the best formula for preteen mishap) gets doused in chemicals and BAM she can turn into liquid and squirt herself into all sorts of tiny nooks and crevices. Oh, and her father's plant is lurking and looming, looking all about for her. But oh snap, she just oozes out of all sorts of tight spaces. Sigh. I miss that being on TV all the time. Those were the days. In fact, I was grounded from TV so much that I ended up buying the books, because I need a Mack attack that badly.