Rapid update

I realized that I hadn't posted anything to this blog since before surgery which seems very long ago. Now that surgery is over and I am up and about I suppose I should post a rapid update!

Surgery: went well and I only have 3 scars around my knee. My scars healed somewhat keloid like which tends to make my knee sore when I put pressure on it. By pressure, I mean I can't fall on it yet while skating which means I fear I will go another season of derby without actually getting any time skating as a real skater. Instead, I think I will be putting on stripes and working as a ref until my knee is stronger which, while not ideal, still allows me to be involved.

Review: my review went wonderfully as in no recommendations for change, my folders were beee-you-tee-ful and I am doing well on this tenure-tracked roller coaster of love. I had a conversation with someone coming out of a residency program this year who is scared about taking on the professor title when he starts looking for and interviewing for jobs. It was definitely a relief to hear my boss give me my feedback.

Travel: visited the OP for Christmas then came back home with bronchitis that was happily on it's way to being a case of walking pneumonia. Terrible right? I realize that last year at this same time I was feeling exactly the same way. Feeling like crap really, so I'm sure that last year I was walking around with this terrible sounding hacking cough and was really sick rather than just suffering from the "crud".

Just got back from Denver where I was witness to a group of drunk librarians who were getting down to this cover band at a party. For those of you who are not librarians, I should let you know that library conferences are just a nighly boozefest where vendors ply poor unsuspecting librarians with booze and provide them with bad music where they proceed to make complete asses of themselves. Not me of course as I try really hard to take advantage of the OPEN bar and drink my weight in pricey adult beverages. Librarians basically go to conference twice a year to go completely and totally ape shit. I tried to think of a term that did not include profanity and cannot think of anything that would truly convey how crazy these people go for free booze and cheese. Completely, totally dirty dancing with some random dude ape shit. Seriously. I asked everyone who was at this particular party to please make me leave post haste should I express a desire to do the lambada with the creepy long haired hippie vendor. I tend to respond well to chocolate covered strawberries, lemon bars and gin.

Tenure and the tender librarian

I seem to talk about the weather a lot don't I? Now that I have weather to be interested in, rather than the Tucson "it's gonna hot today" all year round, I have assumed the title of Weather Lady here in the liberry and deliver random weather reports to Charlene my office mate.

The week is counting down to surgery and I have been trying to make sure and finish things up before I'm out recovering (or rather reading smutty novels and boring myself with TV). One of the main things I had to finish up were my folders for my review. Folders for a tenure track librarian have many names and are sometimes called packets or binders or the notebooks. They often carry a descriptive phrase like "my tenure packet from hell". These folders take a long time to do and even longer if you like to procrastinate or don't keep track of everything you do all year.

So my folders were due on Friday at 5pm but I had decided that sitting here surfing craigslist or looking at CNN or derby related webthings seemed funner than writing out my "Professional Contributions" sheet or putting together my appendixes of support. I did get it done on time (hurray me!!) and turned in by the deadline which made me happy yet anxiety ridden wondering if my folders and written stuff were perfect so my fellow librarians would not be compelled to bring their red pencils and correct my grammer. Keep your fingers crossed for me kids.

I forgot to mention that the weather is changing we have a forecast of possible snow and "blizzard like" conditions out in Western Nebraska. So in preparation I went to the ACE and bought some stakes to bring my tomatoes inside as they are actually produing tiny little baby tomatoes. Damn late tomatoes. Why didn't they bloom earlier in the year like regular plants I ask? Maybe my plants are procrastinators too!

Your sensors are covered!

As many of you know, I don't wear pants very often. And as you start thinking down the same mental roads I tend to navigate down, I don't mean I have a fondness of running about bare assed. I mean pants literally I don't like to wear pants and they don't like me very much either since I tend to suffer some sort of pant-related calamity so frequently that I KNOW it's the pants. Instead, I prefer to wear one of my 50 skirts (ok, one of the 10 that are in constant rotation) even in the dead of a Nebraska winter when it's cold. So today, in honor of having to help do some set-up for the wonderful extravaganza of the Quilt Museum Gala, I wore one of the 3 pairs of jeans I have so I could move tables and chair s about without the threat of any sort of inadvertent booty flashing.

So I got dressed and gathered my things and headed down the stairs to leave when I missed a step and FELL DOWN THE STAIRS. Like bounced off my ass and down the stairs. So as I am sitting there trying to gather my bearings, Mini-me, after hearing the racket I made bouncing down the stairs, asks what happened. I tell her that I fell down the stairs to which replies "Oh. Well I'm ok".

Migration

like the birds I am slowly migrating from other blog arenas to this one.

After living in the Midwest for a year, I still appreciate the Fall weather while looking forward to Winter although I'm not sure what I'm going to do about having to wear pants. Isn't this the same song and dance we heard last year? I imagine one day I will have just accept that snow + ice=pants.

This seems very familiar no?

Hello!

This seems eerily familiar doesn't it? I seem to recall another blog that looked EXACTLY the same from years ago! Since I haven't written on that blog for at least 2 years now, I started this one as sort of a continuation from the Myspace and so made the exodus from Myspace blogs to blogger. It's a long story but in the end, it will hopefully put an end to some issues that keep making thing difficult.

I'll post something super wonderful in the coming days.

Until then,
Suci