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  • Anniversary

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    I was aware of it, of course, but I didn't really feel it, until I walked into Barnes & Noble after work, and in a pile on the very front table were dozens of copies of that book, that graphic novel A.D. New Orleans after the Deluge by Josh' [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 10:04pm EDT
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  • Busy Day in the Life

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    Well it is time for Library Day in the Life again. Something I always enjoy, but I am really too busy this week to devote a lot of time to a long blog entry, so I refer you back to my previous entries. Maybe I can put somethign together [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 11:05am EDT
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  • Day in the life -- Wednesday (?)

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    Well yesterday was a busy day. A lot of different things came up, which I understand is normal for a supervisor.

    The day started off as usual, having to do the morning caretaking things we have to do to ready the library for opening -- getting and stamping the [...]

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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 9:56am EST

  • Library Week - Tuesday

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    Well a lot has changed since the last time I did this. I have accepted a promotion, and am now head of a department at the main library downtown. Of my old division I worked in pre-Katrina in fact, the Periodicals, Arts, & Recreation division.

    I have [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2009, 9:53pm EST

  • A Library Week in the Life

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    Well it is time for another round of the Library Day in the Life wiki. I hope this is actually doing some people some good, that library students areactually looking at it and learning something.

    unfortunately, I wasn't well today and took a sick day, so I' [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2009, 9:47pm EST

  • Inauguration

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    People are looking forward to this Inauguration far more than any I can remember in my lifetime. People are taking off work, travelling to Washington, and not just black people, either. Not everyone -- there are still plenty of Obama haters out there -- but more than I [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 8:58am EST

  • OK, now THIS is corruption:

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    [news.yahoo.com]


    Wow, are we sure this guy isn't from Louisiana?

    Well, no, Chicago pols are no slouches indeed when it comes to corruption. Mayor Richard Daley was alleged to have stolen the 1960 Preisdential Election from Richard Nixon for JFK by vigorous ballot stuffing' [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2008, 10:40am EST

  • UPSET!

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    Wow!

    Associated Press: Anh 'Joseph' Cao has beaten Rep. William Jefferson in 2nd Congressional District

    So the wretched Dollar Bill has FINALLY been dethroned. I'm listening to his sour-grapes non-concession concession speech right now. Halle-freakin-lieujah!

    I have never, ever voted for a Republican before,' [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2008, 10:56pm EST

  • OK, people have been nagging ...

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    OK, people have been nagging me to get back to my blog, and here's Arianna Huffington on Jon Stewart rhapsodizing about blogging. so here I am. Hoo freakin ray.

    I didn't blog because I felt very shut down after Gustav. I didn't know how to feel about' [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2008, 10:37pm EST

  • This is what it looks like ....

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    libray disaster prep




    ... when a library prepares for a hurricane.

    We take items off the lower shelves and shift them up as high as we can. This was in the back room, so there's no risk of windows breaking,' [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2008, 10:06pm EDT

  • Katrina Dreams

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    My brother and his wife just recently relocated back to NOLA from Raleigh-Durham, NC. I mean just recently, like a week ago. Last night we went out with them for coffee. We talked for a long time about the whole NOAh scandal, the pace of recovery, the staus [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2008, 9:54pm EDT

  • Latter Library is Not Closed!

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    There's a rumor going around town that Latter Library Uptown is closed permanently. This is not true! I have an idea about how this rumor got started -- somebody misread the library Master Plan, which is on the website, noticed Latter was closed, put two and' [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2008, 3:16pm EDT

  • Library Day in the Life: July 22, 2008

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    Today I am at Nix branch, the second branch of two that my manager manages. Some of the staff circulate around, some stay put. I circulate.

    Supposedly I am being groomed to take over my own branch, one of the Gates modulars. I look forward to this. [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2008, 5:24pm EDT

  • A Library Day in the Life

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    Now this I can do:

    A Library Day in the Life

    Describe my day as a librarian for LIS students and those strange others who might be interested.

    Wednesday, July 16, 2008

    8:40 AM. Get to work at Mid-City Branch. Start making coffee. [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2008, 5:08pm EDT

  • NOLA bloggers think hard on names - Living/Lagniappe - Times-Picayune - NOLA.com

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    OK, I have got to get my blog on. I am not even mentioned in this article!

    NOLA bloggers think hard on names - Living/Lagniappe - Times-Picayune - NOLA.com

    Of course neither is Oyster or Loki or Jeff, so I guess I can [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2008, 3:28pm EDT

  • Ralph Nader is an Idiot

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    Check this out:

    [politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com]

    Damn, what an ignorant thing to say. He is destroying his good legacy with all his latter-day crazy talk. I’m sorry I voted for the fool now. [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2008, 12:41pm EDT

  • New Orleans Regional Transit Authority : Advisories

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    Well, this brought tears to my eyes when I saw it. Almost three years, it's been. "You don't know what this means to us," I told my intern C. as she stared at me wide-eyed. [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2008, 1:37pm EDT

  • Dice Jockies

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    Check out the debut of thie new web series by my good pal Charlie Brown:



    These are my boys. Well, Charlie and Bill are. This is what we do. Don't LAUGH! It's art, damnit!!!

    Actually I love it. I hope Charlie lets me write [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2008, 2:30pm EDT

  • Tidings Sad and Better

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    Summer Reading Club has been all-consuming for me and I have been neglecting the blogosphere. Thus, too late was I horrified to hear of the death of staunch Nolablogger Ashley Morris. I didn't know Ashley, but he was well known around town and us Nolabloggers have to' [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2008, 2:44pm EDT

  • Elephant Paints Self Portrait - AOL Video

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    You have to watch this video, it's incredible:


    Elephant Paints Self Portrait - AOL Video: ""


    I suppose this elephant could have been trained to do this without understanding it, but it doesn't look like it, does it?

    Also read this article from the [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2008, 11:18pm EDT

  •   Well we took the cat for ...

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    Well we took the cat for a checkup yesterday and she is doing remarkably well.  A much greater improvement in heart function than was expected.   The pill dosing is going better as well.  I just decided to stop stressing out so much about it – if the cat is [...]

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    Posted: March 19, 2008, 7:54pm EDT

  •     Well it has been a ...

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    Well it has been a rough couple of weeks.  Every time I decide to concentrate on developing my blogging, some crisis comes along and torpedoes it.

     

    Weekend before last we had to take one of our cats to the emergency vet at one o’clock in the morning.  [...]

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    Posted: March 06, 2008, 3:49pm EST

  • Bad news from CNN.com

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    New Orleans' record on rebuilding firehouses: 0-22 - CNN.com

    This is an article about how the City of New Orleans has not yet rebuilt a single firehouse, two years after Katrina. Now this I did not know. It was forwarded to me by my husband, who [...]
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    Posted: January 24, 2008, 4:00pm EST

  • As a Pagan, insteads ...

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    As a Pagan, insteads of Christmas I celebrate the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, when the Wheel turns, winter begins to end, and the new sun is reborn from the womb of the darkest night. My favorite name for the Solstice is the one [...]

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    Posted: January 02, 2008, 3:52pm EST

  • Benazir Bhutto

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    Looking back on her life, though she may have been corrupt and power-hungry, one thing you have to say for Benazir Bhutto is that she had incredible courage. I have been reading up on her life. Pakistan, imagine it, is a dangerous place. During her time as am [...]
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    Posted: December 28, 2007, 4:37pm EST

  • Fire on the Bayou?

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    I really don't know how to feel about the housing projects crisis. I'm sure you've seen the awful poster on nola.com, if not around town. Like Jeffrey, said, it's a shame it's had to come to that point. But really, I tend to agree with most of the Nolabloggers that [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2007, 2:39pm EST

  • No blogging last week, ...

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    No blogging last week, because work was sheer hell. My branch library receives abrupt jumps in its circulation and attendance from time to time, as word of our advent spreads in the neighborhood, I suppose. Last week was one of those times. But we were short-handed all [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2007, 3:28pm EST

  • Master Plan

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    Yesterday, Irwin Mayfield, who is the Chairman of the New Orleans Public Library Board, gave a presentation to the staff about the NOPL Master Plan, the library's long-term blueprint for recovery. Mostly he talked about "branding" the library, about NOPL core values that we can present and enact, [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2007, 1:23pm EST

  • I Become Visible

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    My recent experience with my Mystery Patron Reader has inspired me to pay more attention to my presence in the blogosphere. Jeffrey told me to add a Sitemeter counter to my blog so I can see who's linking to me, and here I am joining Technorati:

    [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2007, 2:22pm EST

  • Guess what! The other day a patron ...

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    Guess what! The other day a patron stopped by the reference desk and told me, "I like your blog."


    My neck craned up like a startled chicken's. "What? You read my blog?!"

    "Yes. I knew it was you by your picture." (On the left there.)

    I [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2007, 5:22pm EST

  • K-Ville goes Bye-Bye

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    From the Picayune:

    K-Ville Shuts Down Production

    A victim of the writer's strike. Although the word is the strike is really just an excuse to tank a non-performing show.

    I know I've ragged on K-ville, but still I think it's too bad. The show [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2007, 1:31pm EST

  • Playing the Disaster Dozens

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    First off, let me say unequivocally that I have great sympathy for the people around San Diego who have been displaced and are losing their homes to the wildfires. I'm sure everyone in New Orleans does. We know what it is to flee, to be a refugee, to [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2007, 9:52am EDT

  • A Case of the Stormy Mondays

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    Today is a bad day. I am completely disgusted and affronted that I have to come into work today. That I have to deal with my coworkers. To put covers on books. Check my email. That I have to go home and cook dinner from scratch, because my [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2007, 2:25pm EDT

  • Blog Action Day for the Environment

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    So I just read on Blogger Buzz that today is Global Blog Action Day, and this year's theme is the environment. So ... yay ... love the environment!!!

    Seriously, though, we in New Orleans have a had a foretaste of what's to come all around the [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2007, 11:32am EDT

  • Lights Out is Scary



    This morning, Weekend Edition ran a story about a guy who wants to make an energy-saving gesture by convincing his hometown, San Francisco, to turn out the lights for one night: Lights Out San Francisco.

    Pre-K, I used to be all for this kind [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2007, 1:02pm EDT

  • K-Ville Nitpick Patrol



    Tonight's episode:

    The voodoo paraphenalia: Cigars and rum are offered to Legba, not Ogun. Also, most average people in NOLA would not know this. Most people are scared of voodoo, or vodoun as it should be called.

    Keeping kosher: Marlon said he once tried to keep [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2007, 1:30am EDT

  • Big Boxes of Books



    Unlike Jeffrey, I am thrilled at the advent of a Borders bookstore in the former Bultman funeral home at the corner of St. Charles and Louisiana. I mean, think of it, would you rather have a huge, rotting, unused building on a major intersection, or a thriving [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2007, 11:10am EDT

  • Hurricane Whatberto?

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    Damn, I almost fell off my chair yesterday evening when I saw on CNN.com that there was a tropical storm off ther coast of Texas! WTF? Where did that come from?

    Now, today,it's a Cat 1! It formed, spun up to hurricane strength and made landfall, [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2007, 11:23am EDT

  • 9/11 again



    Yesterday was the sixth anniversary of 9/11. Six years. 9/11 was so huge and shocking, so terrible, that in the weeks and months after I used to wonder what it would feel like to mark the anniversary in the future, five years out, ten years out. I yearmed [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2007, 10:43am EDT

  • Hurriane Katrina News



    Hurricane Katrina News

    This looks ike a good clearinghouse site for recovery news, launched in time for the anniversary. It's put together by Joshua Clark, author of the Katrina memoir Heart Like Water -- who incidentally is giving a talk about his book at Author's [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2007, 6:27pm EDT

  • Katrina Index, Special Anniversary Edition



    Well, this is interesting. It specifically mentions the library.

    I wonder what it says about murders? [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2007, 12:27pm EDT

  • Happy Talk in the Ruins



    I've noticed lately, since I've been back, that a lot of the Nolablogers that I read regularly are angry. Really angry. They have just had it with the crime, the incompetence, with the pumps that don't work, with the Corpse, the Road Home to Nowhere, [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2007, 5:02pm EDT

  • The Other Side of the Camera



    I feel so strange watching the news coverage of this bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Because I know what it's like now, to be on the other side of that news camera. To be in the midst of a huge disaster. The confusion, the terror, the despair.
    [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2007, 11:25pm EDT

  • Hard Day's Day



    Well I just had a hell of a day at work. Now I remember what's sucky about public library service -- crazy patrons and crazy coworkers. Put them together and you have an explosive combination.

    Upon graduation, one of my professors told me I would not find [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2007, 5:03pm EDT

  • Observations ....



    ... upon returning to New Orleans:

    Wow, people dress freaky down here. I'd forgotten. You couldn't get away with that in Baton Rouge.



    Ugh, giant roaches. My apartment in BR was incredibly buggy -- spiders, ants, and wasps -- but at least I didn't have [...]

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    Posted: July 24, 2007, 10:13pm EDT

  • Working

    I am sitting at my new library branch, typing this after hours. It has been a heckuva two weeks. I've already been on TV to represent the library, talking about the summer reading club.

    So far, I like working at a branch. It is a very different feel from [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2007, 5:06pm EDT

  • Back to Work!



    Well I have finally landed a job, and it is with my old employer, the New Orleans Public Library. But the thing is, I have to start Monday! Yikes!

    But it's OK. We were able to push up, the move-in date on our new apartment, so we [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2007, 1:05am EDT

  • Taqueria Trucks




    This article from the Times-Picayune is about Jefferson Parish banning the operation of mobile taqueria trucks that serve hot lunches to the huge population of construction workers still rebuilding the region. The taco trucks followed the vast migrartion of Hispanic workers who flooded in post-K to [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2007, 7:27pm EDT

  • news @ nature.com - Plants can tell who's who - It's not just animals that can tell siblings from strangers.

    Now this is coll. This is the kind of cool thing you can find on the Net:

    news @ nature.com - Plants can tell who's who - It's not just animals that can tell siblings from strangers.

    Plants -- plants! -- can recognize their own relatives. In experiments, they grow and [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2007, 12:55am EDT

  • My Facebook

    So my former classmates (wow, it feels weird to say that) keep telling me to get onto Facebook so that we can stay in touch. So, I did. Here's my profile:

    [www.facebook.com]

    I can see how people get obsessed with this, adding pictures, tracking their friends, writing [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2007, 11:39pm EDT
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