Dear Carleton Place Public Library,

Are you taking resumes? I know I just got a new job and all, but I love you guys. Seriously. Time after time, I read your blog and get jealous that I don't work there.

Everyone else: Please check this ADOOOORABLE program idea out!

Greener Pastures?

Today is my last day officially working for NBFPL. Sad times, sad times. Even though I feel as if I've outgrown working here (which makes sense as I'm officially a librarian working as a librarian trainee), I still love the people I work with. I enjoy the stacks, the way the trees are painted on the walls and posts and just everything. Even the awkward people/situations most people don't appreciate. I've grown so much working here and now it all ends. :(

I'm also a little nervous. I start my new job on Monday and get tons more responsibility. Eek! I know I can handle it, but it's the unknown that's getting to me now.... it's sort of like being afraid of dementors I guess (and yes, Mr. Spellcheck, dementors is a word). What should I expect? Will I be able to do this? Am I grown up enough?

Only time will tell. ::fingers crossed for Monday::

... but aren't we still waiting for the 6th movie?

Dear goodness this weekend was rough (see also: I thought it was Monday all day). Fortunately, I found some Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movie info over on Mugglenet and can get that Pottertastic Tuesday to you in a less than timely fashion, but in a fashion of sorts after all.

Dear Mother Reader,

I love you. I do. You prove it time and time again and this time, no different. Everyone that isn't Mother Reader, do yourself favor and read her thoughts on how American Idol is like the Newberry Award. Word.

Yours truly,
Kristi(e)

Apparently this is program idea week?

Booo to censorship! Yay to staying on top of these silly shenanigans and trying to prevent them from happening again!! Thanks, YALSA.

Also from YALSA: Let's hear it for distraction! (i.e, the story of my sad, procrastinating life) and the YA Bookshelf Project. Check them out!

Where the Wild Things are papercraft via Toy-A-Day.

Super Punch, as per usual, produced some gemtastic gems for potential programs. First up is found item sculpture. While the teens may or may not generate such stunning works as those featured on Super Punch, it would be a great way to get rid of junk. Next week I'll provide you with the second link, mainly because I had plans to post something similar but I'm not quite there yet. So instead I will tease you and let you know that it exists and it will soon be yours to view, but not quite yet. Mwahahaha!

Quick! The library is about to close!

And then I will be home without interwebs. So I must post some possible program ideas quickly that you may or may not have use for.

First on deck is a mini little jobber for use in a Twilight program. I know what you're saying, the books are all done and the movie licensing cost is through the roof, what sort of program can I do? Just because you can't show the movie doesn't mean you aren't allowed to hype up the new one with a little program johnson. Anyway, forks into vampire teeth are pretty ridiculous and a fun sidebar.

Second: You say trash, I say art! Who knew that those hard multi-colored playdoh bits could be of use? Not me, that's who.... until NOW!

Also on The Object Project is this nifty little purse that seems vair vair simple to make.

Lastly, this wouldn't fly with my current patronage, but perhaps you could make use of this link, either for yourself or for a library event. Hands free book pillow?! Clearly this is a necessity. Thanks Craft blog!

BONAS JONAS: I want this shirt like woah. It came up in the same slew of links but didn't have a place to call home so bonas jonas time it is!

Gradumacation

In honor of graduation today and Pottertastic Tuesdays (with a little help from my recent fondness for fancy cakes) I present to you what I wish was waiting for me after the ceremony:

Update: My faux-brarian days are over

Tomorrow, I graduate! In honor of being a full fledged librarian, I updated the layout of my page. Plus, some people were complaining about the bright ass fuchsia coloring so why not keep the people happy and change the background? It's still me, so it obviously needs to have some level of obnoxious tones in order to be legit. Hopefully I am successful in the bright color department. :)

New (to me) Blogs

I wish I had Lisa Falzon's level of dedication to flash fiction. Perhaps now that I'm graduating....

::blinks:: What?

My inner lexicographer is flailing in delight. Thanks, My First Dictionary! You are delightfully snarky entertainment.

Mispelled Project begs to be turned into an alphabet book!

Amazing Things, indeed. The pictures on pencils is my favorite, thus far.

Apparently it IS possible for Yoshi to be even more adorable than he already is. You crazy kids at Yoshi 365...

This artist's work is very haunting, especially the blue pieces. I say haunting reluctantly, however, as there is a hopeful quality about it. My favorite is below:

Memorandum

To: the universe
From: Kristi(e)
Date: 5/17/09
Re: Amazingness

If you could go ahead and find some way of producing a cake like this for me, that would be greaaaat.

ETA: Dear goodness, this gold medallion would be PERFECT for book pimping!!

* Please Note

Now that graduation is upon us (and by us, I mean me) and only a handful of days away, I would like to tell you that I am not going to be a librarian. Despite spending 2 annoying years in library school, I have decided that I just don't see myself as a librarian. Instead, I am going to take my newly minted MLIS and my fancy new jobs and become a book pimp.

What exactly is a book pimp?

A book pimp can be described as a person that pimps out books. Oftentimes one can find these creatures exclaiming things like, "OMG YOU NEED TO READ THIS!!!" with such enthusiasm that it frightens puppies. They create book displays of utter beautiousity that it could bestill even the Twits' hearts. In their spare time, the produce booklists that are so nifty, even the most reluctant reader can't just walk past it.

True, there is still the whole shebang associated with collecting money. Any good book pimp knows to delegate this task to circulation. Lest we forget about the hoe slapdown of 87, it will serve no one to have a book pimp slap hoes unless it is in the most dire situations either.

Applications for Pimp My Bookcase are now being collected.

ETA: There is also the requisite nametag worn on a gold medallion of the nametag owner wearing a gold medallion. No book pimp is complete without this regalia.

8 is the natural number following 7

I find it funny that every time I drop off the face of the earth for a few weeks, I'll eventually get around to posting a letter saying something along the lines of, "yo guys, I'm gonna be unplottable for a bit so just hold tight" and then BAM! I start posting the very next day. It's how I roll, apparently.

As it were, I was tagged a bit ago by Sara at Librarian Boredom to complete a survey. Surveys are my friends. I like surveys. ::strokes the survey's furry head::

8 Things I'm looking forward to:
1. Graduating from library school!!!
2. Being a certified book pimp*
3. Creating programs and other book pimpy things
4. Having time to work on my novel(s)
5. Crashing at my friend's house all summer, as she lives directly on the shoreline. :D
6. Swimming, swimming in the swimming pool...
7. Reading non-school stuff (not like I read school stuff to begin with, but yeah...)
8. Blogging more!

8 Things I did yesterday:
1. Pimped books
2. Ingested nutrients
3. Began reading Jellicoe Road
4. Wrote up stuff to finish colloquium
5. Decided to reclassify my job title
6. Told a kid that for him, not being weird was like not breathing oxygen
7. Was then told by my boss that I am too informal with the patrons... meh
8. Celebrated my friend's A on an exam she was nervous about failing

8 Things I wish I could do:
1. Remember Chinese
2. Find time to exercise
3. Know what the heck I should expect for summer reading at my new job
4. Paint realistically, instead of just abstractly
5. Learn to sew
6. Not live with my parents after my housing runs up
7. Go on vacation with friends
8. Get a pug!

8 Shows I watch:
1. Charmed
2. Good Eats
3. Skins
4. Law and Order (with Sam Waterston and SVU)
5. 90210
6. Gossip Girl
7. Degrassi
8. Weeds

Blargh

Dear Blog,

As you may have noticed, I dropped off the face of the earth. I had juuuust enough time to complete all my finals, graduate and call it a day. I had to leave you be for a while, I'm sure you understand. Now, however, I am still doing school work since my computer died. Again. Brand new computer. Dead. WTF.

In order to graduate next Tuesday I have to redo work I've already done. I have to remain studious even though my brain is all yeah...eff that. It is still up in the air as to whether or not I'm actually going to finish Learning Theory because forget about being a school librarian now, if not ever. I'm slightly dejected by all of this, graduating and becoming a grown up in addition to breaking up with my boyfriend of three and a half years all in the span of two weeks. Life is life and boy does life stink.

On the plus side, bloggerino, I got a job. False. I somehow procured two jobs at two different libraries. Starting June 1st I will be an official young adult librarian and sometime in September I will be doing the job of three different librarians in the span of two days a week. I am exhausted just thinking about it! I'm really excited for the experience, however, as I will get to do storytimes, teach people how to use computers and come up with some fun teen programs. All in all, not a bad place to be the week before graduation.

So, life is taking over and my dwindling digital budget is making it unlikely I will regularly post again for at least a week, probably two. Sorry bud. LOVES!