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New Years Things
Jan. 2nd, 2010 03:47 pmI keep meaning to do either that year in review meme or something else for the New Year, but I just haven't had the energy. Yesterday afternoon my family had a lovely New Year's Day open house which was a lot of fun and the Old Kingdom stuff is set up and at least moving forward. I was going to go see Sherlock Holmes today, but my walk into Lewes was rather bracing and I'm not really up for the highway today. I think I'll try and catch the 1:30 show tomorrow and have a nice lunch beforehand.
The really big thing for me this past year is going from realizing that yes, I want to be a librarian to I just finished my first semester of graduate school at the University of Michigan. Its hard to believe just how fast all of that happened but it really is the right choice for me and that feels wonderful. I spent a lot of the open house talking to people about being a librarian and what a school of information is and lecturing one poor man on how the whole things will all become digital and print will die is really a false and dangerous misconception. Same thing with the internet isolating people, the internet and so many things, its really all about what you bring into it that decides what you get out of it.
This brings me to the other thing I did for the first time this year which is Yuletide. I ended up writing for a fandom that I've never written for before because I kept staring at the prompt I was given and then something just clicked for this other one. The story I wrote is They Are Mine and its Sandman for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
whisperslip, she wanted something about Bast and her relationship with Morpheus and what her relationship with Daniel might be like. I've recently been rereading Sandman and also an anthology of stories inspired by Sandman and the story just sort of happened on the night before I flew home.
I think next year, I'm going to be slightly more thoughtful about what I volunteer to write, but I found it a really wonderful thing to do. I haven't had as much time to go wandering through the archives as I'd like to, but I love seeing everyone's recs.
For 2010, my big goals are finding an amazing internship that teaches me how to be the best youth librarian I can, go on a date and just take care of myself.
The really big thing for me this past year is going from realizing that yes, I want to be a librarian to I just finished my first semester of graduate school at the University of Michigan. Its hard to believe just how fast all of that happened but it really is the right choice for me and that feels wonderful. I spent a lot of the open house talking to people about being a librarian and what a school of information is and lecturing one poor man on how the whole things will all become digital and print will die is really a false and dangerous misconception. Same thing with the internet isolating people, the internet and so many things, its really all about what you bring into it that decides what you get out of it.
This brings me to the other thing I did for the first time this year which is Yuletide. I ended up writing for a fandom that I've never written for before because I kept staring at the prompt I was given and then something just clicked for this other one. The story I wrote is They Are Mine and its Sandman for
whisperslip, she wanted something about Bast and her relationship with Morpheus and what her relationship with Daniel might be like. I've recently been rereading Sandman and also an anthology of stories inspired by Sandman and the story just sort of happened on the night before I flew home.I think next year, I'm going to be slightly more thoughtful about what I volunteer to write, but I found it a really wonderful thing to do. I haven't had as much time to go wandering through the archives as I'd like to, but I love seeing everyone's recs.
For 2010, my big goals are finding an amazing internship that teaches me how to be the best youth librarian I can, go on a date and just take care of myself.
