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I am on that post-conference high that means you made the right decision to leave work at a crazy time to attend a 3-day library conference.

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Oh how I love socks. Born in North Carolina. Go Zach.

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It's 50 years since King gave that speech. Gary Younge finds out how it made history (and how it nearly fell flat)

Well before this day became a national holiday [1986], I knew that Dr. King and I share a birthday. As well, I was born the year he delivered his seminal speech.

This perspective is offered by Gary Younge, in The Speech: The Story behind Martin Luther King's Dream. I'm adding it to my book list.

Better yet, I just put in an ILL request.

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Summer on campus: Freshman Orientation. Annual reports. Pretty walks. Respite.

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I don’t actually look for inspiration. I look for ways to recoup the joy of writing when that joy is lost to me. Whenever I find myself stuck or just without any ideas, it’s because I seem to have forgotten how incredibly fun it is to mess around with words. So to remind myself, I read. But not just anything. I have to read fiction that is exuberant—not in content but style. Writers who howl on the page so loudly, you can hear them for miles. Barry Hannah and Nabokov, Flannery O’Connor and Angela Carter. Jose Saramago and Denis Johnson. Cormac McCarthy. Faulkner. Joy Williams. Annie Proulx and Nicholson Baker. Writers whose work feels alive and fresh and a little nuts, so that before long, I'll start to feel more alive, too. Alive to possibility, which is generally when I start typing.

From Poets & Writers

Fiona Maazel Recommends...

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She was a force of nature.

"I have taught myself so much." #sixwords from the prolific Maya Angelou. Rest in peace.

[http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/us/maya-angelou-obit/index.html]

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Good luck!! It's the best job in the world.

I have been on the other side of those phone calls. Be yourself! Be engaged. Humor puts both sides at ease. We want you to succeed as much as you do!! Rooting for you :)

Eek.

I have a phone interview on Wednesday for a position at an academic library! So far preparation has consisted of frantic note-taking, obsessive research, and walking around the house interviewing myself.

So. Yeah. Coping well.

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Commencement.

Whether 22 or 82...a college graduate is a grand plan just waiting to launch!! Love that new-diploma feeling.

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Last week of classes. Finals start next week!

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I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

-- Audrey Hepburn

Born May 4, 1929

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/audrey_hepburn.html#vDhiWtWM9rjGdKQL.99

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May 2013 :: ROC posing as NYC

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 film crew was here last year. Took these after reception at our downtown campus library. 

(We had beautiful spring weather last year!! Not like the washout we're having so far.)

"Using Kodak film"

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Wonderful Dyngus Day feast put together by fellow librarians!!

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"I do not understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us."

Ann Lamott (via lala-kate)

Happy 60th Birthday. I am in awe of you.

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Photos and presentations from March 28, 2014 conference

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New Puppy party this morning in the staff room.

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I'm buckling down.

Being frugal.

But- I really want to go see this.

Squander the admission fee, and, an entire Sunday afternoon.

(http://www.pinterest.com/pin/209628557629918060/)

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Saying “no” to my kids is an act of love xoxo

smp, Rochester, NY

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