I need a cat and glasses-IT'S OVER!
Graduate School is over.
Wow. It feels strange. When I started this program just over a year ago I felt like I would never be able to say that. And looking back now I can't believe how fast the time has gone, especially, mercifully this last semester.
My best friend L asked me if I was excited--when I called her Saturday afternoon to say that I had submitted my last paper--excitement isn't the word I would use. Glad that it's over--certainly, but there are so many things to think about. I feel tired more than anything. It is amazing that I could do all nighters with no sleep a few times a week to get all my papers and projects done, but now that everything is turned in I can't believe I ever was able to do that. All I want to do is have a serious Rip Van Winkle, and catch up and then, maybe after all the sleep the excitement will settle in.
I feel like too much life has happened this semester. Death, Graduation, Finding a new job, possibly moving again. Oh, argh, why can't I just find a nice little hole...and marry a Hobbit...and...wha? I tried to shluff off the stress and celebrate Saturday night by going to Boogie Fever and hanging out with bro Andy and friends: Married K & Joe Black, Chris, Miss Cellaneous, Megan, Stac, A.E., George, Tom, Adele, Christina, Dave, and Nathan! Am I forgetting anyone!?
Today, after all the tired has begun to recede, I wanted to read something peaceful.
Rita Dove poetry always shakes me out of my funk.
"The Snow King” by Rita Dove
In a far far land where men are men
and women are sun and sky
The Snow King paces. And light throws
a gold patina on the white spaces
where sparrows lie frozen in hallways.
And he weeps for the sparrows, their clumped feathers:
Where is the summer that lasts forever,
with night as soft as antelope eyes?
The Snow King roams the lime-filled spaces
his cracked heart a slow fire, a garnet.
Wow. It feels strange. When I started this program just over a year ago I felt like I would never be able to say that. And looking back now I can't believe how fast the time has gone, especially, mercifully this last semester.
My best friend L asked me if I was excited--when I called her Saturday afternoon to say that I had submitted my last paper--excitement isn't the word I would use. Glad that it's over--certainly, but there are so many things to think about. I feel tired more than anything. It is amazing that I could do all nighters with no sleep a few times a week to get all my papers and projects done, but now that everything is turned in I can't believe I ever was able to do that. All I want to do is have a serious Rip Van Winkle, and catch up and then, maybe after all the sleep the excitement will settle in.
I feel like too much life has happened this semester. Death, Graduation, Finding a new job, possibly moving again. Oh, argh, why can't I just find a nice little hole...and marry a Hobbit...and...wha? I tried to shluff off the stress and celebrate Saturday night by going to Boogie Fever and hanging out with bro Andy and friends: Married K & Joe Black, Chris, Miss Cellaneous, Megan, Stac, A.E., George, Tom, Adele, Christina, Dave, and Nathan! Am I forgetting anyone!?
Today, after all the tired has begun to recede, I wanted to read something peaceful.
Rita Dove poetry always shakes me out of my funk.
"The Snow King” by Rita Dove
In a far far land where men are men
and women are sun and sky
The Snow King paces. And light throws
a gold patina on the white spaces
where sparrows lie frozen in hallways.
And he weeps for the sparrows, their clumped feathers:
Where is the summer that lasts forever,
with night as soft as antelope eyes?
The Snow King roams the lime-filled spaces
his cracked heart a slow fire, a garnet.
Comments
No, after this year, I would love to go into Adult Ref., though I would take Ya if I had too. Yes, yes--good tips! I can do those things and that is an interesting point, I didn't even think of bringing some of that up.
Though I need to get the damn interviews first. ;)
I am going to use your name and throw it around, I know that you are popular out in the wide library world! :)
Excellent list of "new skills." So on the money.
Did you see Well Dressed Librarian's Job Hunting Tips?
Thanks!