Long time no blog
Hi. Long time no blog. I have been riding the post-graduation roller coaster: recover from visiting friends and family, have panic attacks induced by the unfamiliar feeling of doing nothing, realize that I have a “real” job that begins in a few weeks, freak out over the former realization, etc… All of this has resulted in what fellow yarn-addict and blogger MK refers to as “hibernate-and-twitch”
. Glad to know I’m not alone in the need for solitude.
I feel particularly pleased with myself for coming up with a workaround to Six Apart’s stubborn refusal to allow me to embed my Vox blog in my website. [Ok, if I am being honest there is no website currently, but there could be...] Create a full post atom feed of my own posts, subscribe to it through Google Reader, share each individual entry (ugh, but currently I can’t figure out how to share an entire feed), and then use the GReader generated URL for my shared entries. It sounds excessively complicated but since I have my web life compartmentalized to the nth degree there’s nothing in the Reader account associated with The Shiny Librarian except that feed. You get the idea… at least it works. I am sure there are many other feed readers that could perform the same task as well or better, but I am loyal to Google (more on that in future posts… Helio anyone?) to a fault, most likely.
Speaking of Google, how much would I love to have the teahouse theme as my Vox theme? Quite a lot…
In terms of real news I can share that I have accepted a shot at a full time job. I know, what does that mean exactly? Basically it means that I am taking a full time interim position, knowing that it’s the only way I might prove myself as a teaching librarian in a short period of time–all in hopes of laying claim to the full time permanent position. If it doesn’t pan out I will keep the 10 hours a week already assigned me by this college. It’s an amazing opportunity, but I did have to leave my former position with a different college to accept it. Everyone there has been amazing, wishing me well in my new job. I do hope they know how conflicted I was– I’d hate for anyone to think I’d actually made a decision without agonizing over it. For instance I’ve been deliberating on eating some ice cream since I began writing this post. Signs are positive that ice cream is in my immediate future.
Of course as soon as I post this I go to check on my Google Reader workaround and find that this post, inexplicably, refuses to show up in my reader. I am sure that if I were not stubbornly attached to Google Reader (I don’t even like RSS feeds, if I am honest. I’m not a twopointopian, what can I say?) this would probably not be an issue–why else is that handy ‘share’ drop-down up there? More on this later…
