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I listened to The Best of Roxy Music on my drive in to work this morning, and it put me in a right good mood. Does anyone else imagine that Brian Ferry smells like cigarettes and musk? I always have.

If I were a planner of library conferences, I would plan a library conference right, smack in the dead of winter, and if you think I am being facetious, I am not. Some of you probably know that the American Library Association’s Mid-Winter conference starts this week, and in a couple of weeks, there is the Ontario Library Association’s Super Conference. I have never been to Mid-Winter (as it is called; the big annual conference in June is called, unconfusingly, Annual), but I have been to the Super Conference for the past 4 years, and it is something I very much look forward to.

I have a profoundly bad relationship with the months of January and February, both personally and professionally. Personally, I find myself wallowing in a morass of glum days and dark nights, wishing that the first couple of months of the year were more about newness, creativity, productivity, and less about waiting for that third month of the year (Spring! Crisp Air! Things blooming! and this year, A Garden!). Professionally, there’s a steady amount of cantakerous wheel-spinning, at least until the Super Conference, when three days of library talk with colleagues and friends, old & new, usually rekindles the librarian fire within me, keeping me going well into April, when everything comes up roses, because April is the best month ever.

So, it seems then, that what I really need is a Mid-Winter Super Conference for the soul.