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Written on 6 February 2006 | Posted in librariana,me | 5 Comments

While I was busy conferencing last week, Wiarton Willy didn’t see his shadow and Punxsatawney Phil did. Early Spring for some of us and 6 more weeks of Spring-like weather for the others. It’s been an odd Winter.

Sorry about the whining and kvetching last week. The last couple of weeks of intense writing and revising made me realise two things: writing makes me immensely happy and writing deadlines make me fidgety and anxious. So everytime I have a looming article/chapter deadline, I become a mess of nervous excitement. It’s hard to explain. I figure that the only way to get over the fidgety part is to do more regular writing, so I’m now on the hunt for a regular writing gig. In my world, this means writing for a library journal or library association magazine. Updates as progress warrants.

I gave a presentation at the Super Conference a couple of days ago and blogged about it very briefly here. For any library types who might be interested, I also blogged most of the conference sessions I attended, which you can read about here.

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Comment by Ken:
The good thing about blogs is that you don’t have to apologize. If we can’t help out during the down times then we shouldn’t be reading etc.

6 February 2006 @ 20:20
Comment by randy:
And most definitely, a major highlight of OLA for me was finally meeting you. I enjoyed your presentation, and apologize for not chatting with you afterwards, as I was swept away to the luncheon and then to the airport! – randy

7 February 2006 @ 16:19
Comment by andrea:
congrats on the ola conference ~ downloading the presentation right now.

and shoot, that wasn’t whining and kvetching! that was just the occasional blog-fog that happens to all of us once in a while.

8 February 2006 @ 12:40
Comment by melanie:
Well, I don’t know if Balzac Billy saw his shadow but I do know that Balzac Billy is a large man dressed up in a groundhog costume jumping out of a fake cave and a little piece of my childhood is now gone forever. Are they all fake groundhogs and why didn’t someone tell me earlier?

9 February 2006 @ 10:53
Comment by amanda:
oh no, a fake groundhog! I think P. Phil and W. Willy are both real, but who knows for sure! I’d be a little devastated to find out that they weren’t

9 February 2006 @ 12:07