Nothing inspiring to say

I have discovered that while glancing through the Discovering Computers book, and it looks very awe- inspiring it really isn't. I was able to very simply comprehend what it was saying. Which is good since I have to finish all the chapters I haven't read and process it before our quiz on it Monday.

Monday is the last day before I have my gallbladder removed. Amazing really that they can do that as outpatient. It will be the first time I will be given prescription painkillers. But at least it will be out and hopefully getting rid of this 5 month pain and nausea that I have been having.

However I hope they don't mess me up too bad, because I really want to get some reading done. It will be a very good oppurtunity. Here's to hoping and praying for the best. Tomorrow my pastor and his wife are coming to pray with me over it. Very nice of them. Talk to you later.

Yipee!

I just got my Discovering Computers 2006 book! Now I won't fail the first quiz. :) I started reading the intro to the 1st chapter and nearly started to hyperventilate. I don't think that I had any idea how much I didn't know about computers. Grip for the day. My DSL wasn't working properly most of the weekend and so I had a hard time doing much of anything. Hopefully my roommate will see if is working better otherwise another call will go out to my ISP provider. I am once again gauging my options on switching services. Anyways, hope all of you who read my post are well? I am trying not to be nervous over my surgery next Tuesday. I have blood work on Friday so that should be fun. Bye.

Nice to know

It was nice to know that I am in tune with much of what other people think and say about technology. I know I have a hard time reading for long periods of time on the computer. I hate my cell phone but deem that it necessary, especially when I am going home to WV (a 8 and half hour drive). I have all sorts of accounts for things that I don't use anymore. Anyways I am going to bed.

Great Poem

Be a little careful of your Library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am trying to finish reading the Kuhn book. It was really hard last night, it took almost an hour per chapter because I just couldn't concentrate. I guess being told about surgery and everything that is going to be happening in the next two weeks got to me. Knowing that the pain will stop, is a lovely miracle in itself. I have had too many tests that came back saying I should be normal.

So the plan is that tonight- homework, go to movie, sleep in, and then homework and clean house during the weekend. Sounds like a doable plan, so let's see how it goes.

LIS 2600

I honestly don't know if I am going to make it through this class. :-) I didn't realize I was so far behind in technology. Though I am happy that I am not the only one, obviously misery loves company. I still haven't recieved my book for this class. I am never going to choose the "as few as possible" shipments ever again. I am also trying to delve into this class a bit more. I think I should have spent more of the weekend looking over this Course rather than LIS 2000. Though I am having a problem with the 'http://mingus. assignment file, I can't get it to come up until after 8:00 pm at night, I have to try my roommates computer, maybe it will come up there for me.

This is definately more work than I had anticipated, at least right off the bat. I am trying to change my mindset from undergrad to grad style classes. (Exp. Read every word vs. picking out general ideas.) I enjoy watching the classroom sessions, they make me feel involved, and I also like the Podcasts. I am still waiting for more info on the Tag assignments. I have actually never done those before. I am much more familiar to blogging, and chat rooms.

If you couldn't tell I am more than a bit of a worrywart. I suppose I am also stressed by the fact that my one and only book for this class still isn't in. Here's to praying for a miracle from Amazon.

Still figuring this blog site out

I am trying to shift through all the reading that we have to do, especially this week. I thought that I had to do a lot of reading compared to my friends in undergrad, but this is amazing!

I am also trying to figure out this blog site. I have a xanga site, myspace, and facebook, but all of them take time to learn. Though I must say that xanga was by far the easiest to learn.

Now a bit about myself other than what is in the profile. I was born in Groton, Conn. And then when I was 7 moved to West Virginia. I have a very large extended family and we all grew up together and so are very close. Now my cousins are all having children of their own, so I am Aunt Laura. Currently 4 of my cousins and their spouses are expecting children.

I came to the Philadelphia area for school. I attended Philadelphia Biblical University initally as a Secondary Education History/Social Studies major, but after one semester switched to Counseling. I started working in the library of my school the 2nd week of my 1st semester during my Freshman year. I have always loved libraries. Whenever my librarians saw me coming, they would go over to the holds shelf and get down about 20 books at a time, which I would read in about a week.

During my senior year of college I went through a crisis of sorts and discovered that I didn't have enough life experience to be a Marriage and Family Counselor at the age of 24. So I started looking for a career until, who knows when exactly, I guess the real reason was that i needed a job that would help pay off my student loans. :) I looked into Massage Therapy, MLIS, and several other possibilities. However, since I couldn't make up my mind so I took a year off after my undergraduate studies to work in the library and decide if that was something I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I discovered that I really rather enjoy it, and so applied for FastTrack MLIS and that is how I got here.

Hello, True Gods of Sound and Stone

On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue;
I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way,
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.

On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge
Of the deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion's pledge,
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts and I not making hay--
O I loved too much and by such by such is happiness thrown away.

I gave her gifts of the mind I gave her the secret sign that's known
To the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone
And word and tint. I did not stint for I gave her poems to say.
With her own name there and her own dark hair like clouds over fields of May.

On a quiet street where old ghosts meet I see her walking now
Away from me so hurriedly my reason must allow
That I had wooed not as I should a creature made of clay--
When the angel wooes the clay he'd lose his wings at the dawn of day.
-- Patrick Kavanagh