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DONE!

Posted by lynn on Aug 1, 2006 in Random

I’m officially done with my fourth semester of school. I wrote those three papers. I be done. I don’t have to worry about school for at least a week and a half.

As usual, thanks to Sarah and Phil for proofing a thousand papers.

Thanks to some of the librarians at USC for letting me use them as guinea pigs for my reference projects.

Thanks to Macromedia for making Dreamweaver, which also helped me get through my web design class.

Enjoy the break before my next pre-semester freak out. Only two more semesters to go.

 
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Damn, it’s HOT

Posted by lynn on Jul 23, 2006 in News

A+ on the user guide, y’all. Yeah, baby! Cop out my ass!

Sorry.

You can probably tell that the end of the semester crunch is starting to get to me. While I think I finally have my web redesign project sorta done (man, CSS can be a bitch, especially when it comes to tables), I gotta write three papers in the next two weeks. I can totally do it – I just don’t wanna. I’m tired and HOT. Did I say HOT? Because it’s HOT. Stupid HOT. Africa HOT.

LA is not normally HOT. I mean, it crosses 90 every once in a while, in August, for a day or two, and we all bitch about it. It does not cross 90 in July, for two weeks straight. LA also is never humid, which has been all week long. The last two days have been particularly bad. I’ve been sticky all weekend. I hate sticky. So anyway, it’s made working over a warm laptop in a very warm apartment (with no air conditioning) very miserable.

Oh well, in two weeks the semester will be over and I’ll be on a plane to Cancun so I can have that rendezvous with the swim-up bar.

I’ll stop my whining now and get back to work.

 
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Just hadda share…

Posted by lynn on Jul 18, 2006 in Random

So, remember how, in the last post, my “peer” said making a web page for our user guide assignment was a “cop out”? Yeah, well I geeked out and made a special CSS stylesheet for printing out my user guide, so now my assignment looks awesome on the screen and on paper. Take that, beeoootch!

Take in the glory that is my user guide on human rights:

http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/ljasper2/504/peer/humanrights.html

 
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Almost done with 4

Posted by lynn on Jul 16, 2006 in News

The end of semester four is in sight. Word of advise to anyone going to grad school and working full time:

Don’t take 8 units during the summer.

My classes aren’t hard, per se – at least the content isn’t. There’s just so much work. I’m doing assignments every, single, day. Besides, all the other maniacs who signed up for 8 units and who don’t find the content easy get very bitchy and defensive.

I’m in a “peer group” for reviewing assignments for my reference class, and one person has a screen image in her Word document that looks awful on a screen and when I print it out. She tries to put an entire web page in like a 1/4 of a printed page. So, since I’m supposed to give her feedback, I tell her that the image is blurry and she might want to do something else with it. She writes back, admits it’s blurry, and asks for suggestions. I give her three suggestions, only one of which is that she turns her assignment into a web page, and I get this message back (copied to the entire group) about how her image prints out just fine, making a web page is a “cop out” (my assignment is done as a web page, mind you), and she wants feedback from other people. Damn. I wrote her back with a simple “if it prints out fine, then don’t worry about it” note and silently decided to let her hang herself. No more feedback from me. We get graded, by the way, partly on how well we work with others in our group, so I’m not going there with her.

I guess I’m a little stunned because while I’ve worked with flakes on group projects for class, I had not yet encountered a crank. I guess I was lucky to go this long.

At any rate, I’m looking forward to the end of this semester. Neither of my classes are bad, but they aren’t exactly inspiring either. I’m also getting a bit burned out from doing all this work.

Almost done….almost done….

 
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Back in the Wardall Again…

Posted by lynn on Jun 10, 2006 in News

Ah, the dorms. I can happily say that they haven’t gotten worse; in fact, they’ve gotten slightly better with the addition of air conditioning controls and an eliptical machine.

I arrived in C-U much later than I had planned last night due to a delayed flight and an odd taxi cab ride. The taxi ride involved a driver with 13 kids, a woman who refused to say directly where she lived, and an Australian who would constantly yell, “JESUS CHRIST!” and talked a lot about the French Revolution. Yeah, it was a long ride. Thankfully, I had my Skymeal to keep me happy.

Oh my gosh, y’all: Skymeals, rock. I had the European brunch thingie, and not only was it enough food to feed me all day long, it was yummy, came in a koozie thing with ice packs and had a cute little salt n’ pepper shaker shaped like a plane. Worth the $$, y’all.

Anyway, it’s raining and chilly-ish here (60s), and Reference was okay. Mostly boring, but okay. The people in my peer group are nice, and I think the work shouldn’t be too hard to do. The reference tools we’re working with, like Infoplease are cool, but I’m still pretty sure I don’t want to be a reference librarian. After years of tech support, I’m kinda done answering people’s questions directly.

Tomorrow is Web Design, and I have slightly higher hopes for that.

 
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Another semester, another trip

Posted by lynn on Jun 7, 2006 in News

So I fly out to Champaign once again this Friday. Instead of putting the on-campus session mid-semester, the summer semester kicks off with the trip. I kinda wish it wouldn’t, but then the semester is only 7 weeks long. I guess I understand.

Work has been ugly, y’all, and it’s taken a lot out of me. I’m not feeling my best, mentally, physically or emotionally. Not that I won’t give school my all – it takes priority over work for me, really. I just don’t feel like I’ve got the drive I had the last two semesters.

As for my usual pre-semester freak-out, it’s not nearly as large. I think it will be do-able, although I’m sure there will be some moments of panic here and there. The material looks easy enough: the problem is that it’s all crammed into 7 weeks instead of 15. But here’s my semesterly list of things that really concern me anyway:

  1. Both instructors have been changing the syllabus daily, even the assignments for the first day of class which is only days away.
  2. My reference class calls for a lot of reading, and a lot of it seems redundant.
  3. Boy, there’s an awful lot o’ stuff crammed in those 7 weeks.

I have no doubt I’ll survive though. I always make it through somehow.

Anyway, this trip is a quickie: I arrive on Friday night, and I leave on Monday morning. I don’t know how much blogging I’ll do or how many pictures I’ll take. I guess we’ll find out, won’t we?

 
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Librarian Dress Up

Posted by lynn on Jun 2, 2006 in Favorite Links

Thanks, Sarah, for these fabulous links:

The skirt I need to make

More librarian fashion

Enjoy!

 
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A’s all the way, baby.

Posted by lynn on May 21, 2006 in News

I got an A in my Use and Users of Info class, so it was a 4.0 for this semester, which brings my overall GPA to a 3.81. If only they had a “My daughter is an honor student at UIUC GSLIS” bumper sticker for my dad.

 
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Dewey hasn’t done me wrong….

Posted by lynn on May 17, 2006 in News

Yeah, I be speaking English super good today. Leave me alone.

Anyway, I thought I’d share that I got a perfect score on the Cataloguing final, resulting in an A for the semester. Go me! I’m no longer a straight A- student. I still have no word on my grade for the other class, but they’ll be posted on the web Monday.

 
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It was nice while it lasted….

Posted by lynn on May 9, 2006 in News

Okay, well, it wasn’t really nice while it lasted because work kinda sucks right now, but the Summer syllabi went up today. As I feared, my 6 weeks of summer school will be a ballbuster (except I don’t actually have balls).

*sigh* I’ll just worry about when I get back from Yosemite.

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