A few more pictures

 Pedernales State Park

Since I put something new up on the Craft blog, I thought I'd post a few pictures here.

Grape Creek Vineyard

I went back to Fredericksburg for the THIRD time. Wineries and quaintness keep me coming back. Mom keeps asking for a picture of Emily smiling, so here it is.

 ALA Midwinter Conference

I have officially visited all the major cities of Texas with my trip to Dallas for the Midwinter conference. Here are Michelle and Alexa (Emilia is behind the camera), my lovely trip mates. The conference was so much fun, and Michelle and I were recently accepted to give a "Lightning Talk" at the Texas Library Association conference in Houston in April. Yay us! A lightning talk is a 5 minute forum-type presentation. We'll be presenting on the Mendeley class we are planning for the UT Libraries.

Sixth Floor Museum, Dallas 

Alexa and I visited the Sixth Floor museum, where Lee Harvey Oswald was when he shot JFK. It was a really fantastic museum. We followed up with a trip to H&M and In-N-Out.

Lucy's Fried Chicken

Here is Emily with an oyster in her drink. It looks so disturbing.

A pile of turtles at the turtle pond

ONE MORE WEEK until spring break! Not that it will be much of a break. I have a phone interview on the 9th, so at least my applications are resulting in something! I can't believe how close I am to being an adult again.

Here are some pictures

Some things I've done since oh...November:

Met John Waters

Visited San Fancisco

Went home

Had family time

 Hedgehog-sat

aaand I got back to work. I'm taking Information Architecture and a class called Technology & Work. My capstone is a collection development project for the UT Libraries. I have applied to 10 jobs. I am always tired. So there you have it. Less than three months, though! I'm so excited to be done.

I Realize I've Abandoned This Blog

And I apologize. I will post some pictures soon.

 Happy 11/11/11!

I was in a meeting this morning, but I kept looking at the clock for 11:11 so I could make my century of a wish.

I have some Halloween photos! As you can see, I dressed as Dad for Halloween. Someone asked me if I was a hipster. I guess Dad was hipster before it became mainstream :-) Emily, clearly, is a natural cowboy.

 Abbie's Rick Perry Pumpkin

 At the BRC in Houston

I spent Halloween weekend in Houston with iSchool Emily. She has some friends there from Rice, so we hung out with them and went to the art museum and did other Houston-y things (if such a thing exists). A girl who graduated last year is living in Houston after spending four months as a cruise ship librarian. She said it was interesting, but "you are living with all the patrons you hate".

At Barley Swine eating pig face

 Emily and I celebrated our 6 month anniversary doing what we do best: eating delicious food. Two family members of mine might remember visiting the Odd Duck trailer, which is the baby of Barley Swine. Our server warned us of the "small" plates, which weren't actually that small. We had some amazing acorn squash soup with tempura fried mushrooms, but didn't get a picture in time.

We also had goat with goat fondue and I wondered if it came from the same animal.

 Shuffleboard at Doc's

But we couldn't be too classy. We usually play shuffleboard here during happy hour, when there's no table service, and we had a very overeager server who asked us "you guys doing ok?" at least 7 times (no exaggeration). When two people order 4 beers, we are going to be ok for awhile, thanks.

Emily and I are representing Doc's in this video (check out 1:04), which was taken last summer. The camera guy told us the name of the website and we proceeded to forget it until I had an epiphany a couple weeks ago and remembered the name of the website. Emily deems the shot "unnecessary".

Dessert!

I've started applying for jobs and hope to do a lot more over the break (if winter break would ever get here!). I know, I know, "I can't believe you're almost done!". Well, I wish I felt the same way.

Spaghetti aglio e olio with smoke-dried tomatoes and fried eggplant with Balsamic reduction

I'm splitting one of those farmer delivery services with a friend, so it'll help me keep up on my veggies. This week I got an eggplant, some green tomatoes, peppers, arugula and a lot of okra! I might try pickling the okra if I have time this weekend. It's opera season again, so I'm going to see The Magic Flute on Sunday. Oh, and a WWII re-enactment tomorrow. It's an iSchool thing (really). And try to get some work in, I suppose.

Aaand another one

Not long after Banned Books Week, I got an invite to be interviewed about online personas since I just taught a class on online identity management. I was woefully unprepared, but the editing made me look like I knew what I was talking about.

Travis also mentioned my upcoming Longhorn spot in the Tex Libris blog. This time next year: more famous than Nancy Pearl.

Video on the Daily Texan!

The video for our Banned Books Week event is up! Well, it's been up for awhile and I just have no time these days. 

Did I mention the commercial I extra-ed for? Well, it should be out soon. I'll let you know.

A Couple Cool Things

 Shockingly immoral books

My Monday started out pretty interesting. It was ALA's Banned Books Week. I was in charge of putting on the Read-Out, which is a common way to celebrate (people get together and read passages from their favorite challenged or banned book). I got up before class, and got to my e-mail to find 1.) an e-mail from the Daily Texan requesting to cover the event and 2.) an e-mail sent out to the Ischool's listserv calling for a protest of the event! The e-mail was from another student who is sort of known for having a worldview that differs from most librarians. He basically said Banned Books Week is about celebrating placing age-inappropriate materials into the hands of children. All the work I meant to get to was placed on hold while I dealt with the PR.

 Luckily, no protesters showed up and we had a pleasant read-out. Actually, I didn't do as much promotion for the event as I'd wished, but the call for a protest sort of did the promotion for me. The Daily Texan article is here.

 Even cooler news: Blondie! My seats were not this good, I'm just lucky to have an amazing camera.

I'll leave you with that. Lots of work to get done this weekend! I'm looking forward to a Dutch Baby for Sunday brunch.