School and Sushi

So this is the end of the first week of my last quarter of school. (Well at least of library school--maybe one day I'll want to get another Master's.) It's scary because I need to start looking for jobs NOW, and I don't want to. However, apart from that, I think I'm going to really enjoy my last quarter.

I'm taking Library Technical Systems online this quarter. I should have taken it last quarter in person instead of Government Publications, but live and learn right (and then get Luvs). The word "technical" scares me, but I think it's going to be a very good, practical course and perhaps help ease my technophobia. I don't want to be a systems librarian (the people who run the technological back-end of libraries), but any and all technical skills can only help me in the job search. So far the work load is not too bad, and the online discussions have been interesting.

I'm taking The History of Recorded Information which is a humanities-style class on information coupled with special collections. It may be one of my favorite classes ever. I've never been that interested in special collections, but now I'm thinking that maybe I should have taken more classes in that specialty--it's much more interesting than I thought. It's one of the few classes in the Information School where it's okay to say that we actually like books and have concerns over the exponential growth of technology--concerns I've had since starting this program. There's going to be a lot of reading for this course and a very long research paper due at the end, but I've very excited.

My last class is Nancy Pearl's reader's advisory class. In the fall I took her Genres for Adult Readers. We haven't actually had class yet as we meet every other Saturday. I'm also excited for this class. We have to read three books--the whole class is reading The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, then we each get to choose a narrative nonfiction from an approved list (I'm considering The Liar's Club, The Tender Bar, or The Devil in the White City), and finally a book suggested by an reader's advisory peer--we'll see what I get. I think my favorite part of her classes is that every week I get to send the Nancy Pearl a journal entry on reading and books, and she actually reads it and responds with comments! Awesome.

Being at work every day by nine o'clock is kicking my ass. I do not care for this going to bed and walking up early thing. It is absolutely no fun. And I'm realizing that life is going to be very long and tiring as a responsible adult.

Yesterday, my friends and I decided to make sushi and watch The Lost World. Jason, Meagan, and I drove down I-5 on a Saturday (which is something I never recommend) to go to the Asian market downtown in the International District. Then we picked up Susan, consumed Dick's, and headed back to Megan's to make sushi which is a very involved process. We consumed a lot of Bourbon and made California rolls, Philadelphia rolls, and spicy tuna rolls. They were all very good, and we did not die (well, at least I didn't). We also had mochi, miso soup, and Riesling (which of these is not like the others?). Then we watched The Lost World--we had watched Jurassic Park a few weeks earlier--which I had never seen before. Since I didn't see these movies growing up, I was not all that attached. It was fun, but it made me miss my dinner/movie nights with Whitney, Dain, Elise, and Alex. Those were good times.