Showing posts with label internships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internships. Show all posts
Sunday, June 12, 2005
we're into june now people. are you all enjoying your summer and noticing how fast it is flying by? i'm enjoying mine. the internship is fun, and hanging out with friends is fun, and i'm tackling a giant project of organizing a scrapbook of pictures from my undergrad days, and have realized i've taken an awful lot of pictures over 5 years!!! especially with the advent of the digital camera. so ya, oh and barnes and noble will have orrientation tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes, but i'm gald they've hired me, and i might be able to transfer to the b-town store after the move back there. okay, that's all from me folks! night
Sunday, May 22, 2005
Well, I have been back in Iowa for almost two full weeks now. It has been a very good experience to readjust to life over here. I am loving my internship so far, Rijn is awesome and I am learning some really cool things, and I just got a call to interview at Barnes and Noble on Wed. so everyone wish me luck with that! (how totally awesome would it be to work with books and get paid? haha, oh wait...that's what my REAL career is going to be anyways! hehe, perhaps that's why I'm worthy of an interview. Hopefully they won't care that i"m only going to be around in the summer, and only want part time...well keep your fingers crossed anyways okay?). Let's see...other things....readjustment...well it has been really nice to see the Iowa friends again. There is something quite wonderful in the simple pleasure I take in hanging out with certain people that i have great chemistry with, so that we can spend an entire evening hanging out and in a very Seinfeldian sort of way, conduct a "show about nothing." Seriously, I hadn't laughed sooo hard in ages, as I did last week at perkins. It felt so good to just gel with them again. :) I miss my b-town girls and boys already too, because they are awesome as well, but there is something to be said for hanging out with people that, for all practical purposes have all sorts of "ammo" against you from previous knowledge to make fun of you with. Ah, the joys of being able to laugh at yourself. Particularly, from the bowling alley, the first night of my return, when I was dead tired and dragged my butt over because it was MY idea to go bowling earlier in the day, for when I got back to town, but soo tired I barely knew what was going on. Needless to say my comment of "I left the deathstars in the other duffelbag" is now living in infamy. Not to mention "what happens when you step on a dead cow?" (from the perkins evening) to which I replied "It stays dead?"
Not all of this homeward venture has been rosy though, as I've realized a few more things about myself that i need to work on. Like jealousy. I've always thought it such a stupid emotion, but I am beginning to understand the complexities and different types of jealousy that exist, and hopefully will discover how to better deal with them from an internal standpoint. But for the most part, life is fairly coposetic..(and I STILL can't spell for anything) So that's the newest update. peace!
Not all of this homeward venture has been rosy though, as I've realized a few more things about myself that i need to work on. Like jealousy. I've always thought it such a stupid emotion, but I am beginning to understand the complexities and different types of jealousy that exist, and hopefully will discover how to better deal with them from an internal standpoint. But for the most part, life is fairly coposetic..(and I STILL can't spell for anything) So that's the newest update. peace!
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Some Random Odds and Evens
Well, this will be a short entry, but I do like to keep those of you out there informed, especially since it probably seems as if I've dropped off the face of the Earth. Rest assured my fine readers, I have not. Proving that the Earth is round is one thing, dropping off I"m sure is just as complicated. I am sorry to have been out of touch, but plan to be for the next 4 weeks or so anyways, as I am in the midst of writing THREE, yes, that's THREE graduate school papers...yelp! However, one of the papers is fairly intuitive, which means it will get done this weekend, another, more complicated, and the last and of course, most important is the MOST complicated and taxing on my brain capacity. But, I digress (of course) . this is all my life has consisted of, since getting back to B-town. So I miss the finer things. I am however, excited to sign my lease for my apartment for next year, to start my internship in Iowa city over the summer, to come back and visit the fine b-town friends still here, and orchestrate a number of weekend visits to other locales. I look forward to teaching myself vi. because i am a huge dork and as steve would say, I belong in the "pink ghetto" (or traditionally small group of women that find computer science programming languages interesting and fun) So next semester i will take information architecture for the web (a class i couldn't take this semester b.c of scheduling conflicts). I look forward to the family reunion at okoboji, and a 24th birthday sure to make me realize i have to grow up now and look for a real job soon - which i'm almost entirely ready for after this semester.
oh yes, I must mention, before I close this (ya, no seguway there) that my parents are awesome. They sent me a plant! yes, a truly live plant...haha, an azalia plant that is now sitting in my window, but i think it doesn't really like the sun allt hat much, as it looks more "awake" at night - and i was informed they are a night blooming plant. fun huh? it brightens up the room, and i think they knew I was stressed about things here, so wanted to make me feel a lill better about my chosen higher degree and that whole "where am i going, what am i doing with my life" discussion. so thanks folks!
okay, it's off to read about fund-raising in libraries and how that relates to their management for my 10 pager!
happy trails to all and good luck to those of you also finishing your semesters!
oh yes, I must mention, before I close this (ya, no seguway there) that my parents are awesome. They sent me a plant! yes, a truly live plant...haha, an azalia plant that is now sitting in my window, but i think it doesn't really like the sun allt hat much, as it looks more "awake" at night - and i was informed they are a night blooming plant. fun huh? it brightens up the room, and i think they knew I was stressed about things here, so wanted to make me feel a lill better about my chosen higher degree and that whole "where am i going, what am i doing with my life" discussion. so thanks folks!
okay, it's off to read about fund-raising in libraries and how that relates to their management for my 10 pager!
happy trails to all and good luck to those of you also finishing your semesters!
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Tom Forsythe and Me
Listening to - Leroy - New World - Ten Things I Hate About You Soundtrack
Watching - Home Improvement with the sound 0ff - very counterintuitive I know...
So, the thursday trend of sleeping in continues. I didn't get up until 11:30 today. woo hoo. I was a VERY good girl though. *Remember When I Told ya'll I had that HALO?* hehe. I got all of my reading done for tomorrow morning's class, even caught up on the reading for it last week (which I'd skipped). I got all the immunization things taken care of, so I can register. I worked on the 524 lab. I squared away the contact information for my internship for the summer. I went running, did abs, AND even lifted a bit. I also finally finished putting up some new decorations around the room (no halloween ones yet, I'll put something on my door soon though) but, I bought that whacky sticky tacky stuff this weekend (because I have NO masking tape around here), so my walls won't seem so bare. There's a hilarious artist that I discovered in Art News a few weeks back when Traci and I were high on caffeine and doing our 401 at B&N. He was being sued by Mattel for his "representations of Barbie dolls." Well, having taken Art, Law and Ethics last sem at Iowa and finding copyright law fascinating, my curiosity was piqued. I "googled" for his website (and man, do I LOVE google).
http://creativefreedomdefense.org/index2.htm is Tom Forsythe's homepage...read and look and laugh and enjoy.
How this pertains to me: well, I've put up a few thumbnail images above the computer. I'm particularly fond of "fondue a la Barbie" and "Oster Dive" as well as "Missionary Barbie". As the disclaimer says, "it's derivative work" so it's freedom of expression. I often think, if I wasn't going to be a librarian, a professional writer, professonial photographer, or museum professional, I'd add lawyer to the mix and defend artists. :)
Now I am going to be a further good girl and work on some other assignments, because tomorrow night I'm going to the opera with Christa - yay! I'll get to hear people that actually know how to sing! and it's Tchaikovsky, and IU so should be fabulous! So exciting!
Watching - Home Improvement with the sound 0ff - very counterintuitive I know...
So, the thursday trend of sleeping in continues. I didn't get up until 11:30 today. woo hoo. I was a VERY good girl though. *Remember When I Told ya'll I had that HALO?* hehe. I got all of my reading done for tomorrow morning's class, even caught up on the reading for it last week (which I'd skipped). I got all the immunization things taken care of, so I can register. I worked on the 524 lab. I squared away the contact information for my internship for the summer. I went running, did abs, AND even lifted a bit. I also finally finished putting up some new decorations around the room (no halloween ones yet, I'll put something on my door soon though) but, I bought that whacky sticky tacky stuff this weekend (because I have NO masking tape around here), so my walls won't seem so bare. There's a hilarious artist that I discovered in Art News a few weeks back when Traci and I were high on caffeine and doing our 401 at B&N. He was being sued by Mattel for his "representations of Barbie dolls." Well, having taken Art, Law and Ethics last sem at Iowa and finding copyright law fascinating, my curiosity was piqued. I "googled" for his website (and man, do I LOVE google).
http://creativefreedomdefense.org/index2.htm is Tom Forsythe's homepage...read and look and laugh and enjoy.
How this pertains to me: well, I've put up a few thumbnail images above the computer. I'm particularly fond of "fondue a la Barbie" and "Oster Dive" as well as "Missionary Barbie". As the disclaimer says, "it's derivative work" so it's freedom of expression. I often think, if I wasn't going to be a librarian, a professional writer, professonial photographer, or museum professional, I'd add lawyer to the mix and defend artists. :)
Now I am going to be a further good girl and work on some other assignments, because tomorrow night I'm going to the opera with Christa - yay! I'll get to hear people that actually know how to sing! and it's Tchaikovsky, and IU so should be fabulous! So exciting!
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Groovin' in B-town
Listening to: Big Fat VooDoo Daddy
So, after moving out here from Iowa for the whole "higher higher" education thing, I figured there would be some sort of epihany in my soul or my mind where I'd realize that I never want to live in Iowa City again, that I'm destined to travel the world doing interesting things and will never again settle down and live in one place for a long time. That isn't exactly the case though. As I start to look for possible internships for this summer, the possibilities are endless, Washington, D.C. Foldger Shakespeare Library, Chicago Art Institute, hell I could even go out to California, IF I didn't need money. Reality has this way of crushing dreams huh? 97% or so of library internships aren't paid positons and don't offer housing or living stipends either. I'd really like to be in Chicago this summer. I guess I'm still a Midwestern gal at heart in that respect. I could imagine waking up every day and being excited to go to work in a library situated in the Art Institute, take the subway down, or walk past galleries and shops to get there. Then get to enter through the "staff" doors and to walk past famous glorious works of art EVERYDAY! How wonderful would that be? Then, get to sit at a reference desk and answer patron questions about different artists, works of art, or where to find information on a certain architect. I think that would be a perfect fit for me. Actually, collection development and management would be a perfect fit for me too (perhaps this is because I did this at the health sciences lib at the U I for 5 years, and that I'm taking classes in both reference librarianship and collection development this semester) but either way, the setting and environment would be great. Heck, I'd even subject myself to cataloging all day (sorry Christa- it's your cup of tea, not mine) in order to be there. So, that whole, needing to make money to afford my education does rear its ugly head. Perhaps though, I can figure something out.
I guess I still haven't lost that belief that if I try hard enough something good will come my way and be right for me...I already know that is the case for the move to Bloomington. It has definately been the right move for me to make in my life. As nervous as I was to come here and start out again, after 22 years in the same town I grew up in, with the same core group of friends I've had since highschool and even elementary and then adding to that core...I've had to branch out and meet new people that I knew nothing about before saying "hello" I think there is something to be said for that philosophy of "throwing yourself into a new and exciting situation, where you are forced to bond with people over the smallest of things, like, a love of popcorn, or many other commonalities you discover through small talk, until you realize that these people are great. I already feel lucky that, even if I haven't met the entire human composition of my graduate program , I have met, those that I believe are some of the best elements it has to offer. As for the rest of the IU population, I've got a few from the dorm that are also steller girls that I already consider friends.
I worry some that the folks back in IA will forget about me...I feel like if I'm always the one that calls to see how they are doing, they will get annoyed and stop answering the phone when my name comes up, figuring that, as far away as I am (only six hrs) I'm still far enough away that they'll get tired of my pesky questions. When I went home the other weekend I was comforted to know that not much has changed in that town in the six weeks since I left. One of the restaurants changed names, apparently there's a starbucks in the mall now, and my friends, well, they remain the fabulous IC folks I remember them to be. So I guess if I have to be at home this summer, making money instead of in Chicago doing the internship it won't be entirely bad, I'll still have great people to spend the after hours with!
So, after moving out here from Iowa for the whole "higher higher" education thing, I figured there would be some sort of epihany in my soul or my mind where I'd realize that I never want to live in Iowa City again, that I'm destined to travel the world doing interesting things and will never again settle down and live in one place for a long time. That isn't exactly the case though. As I start to look for possible internships for this summer, the possibilities are endless, Washington, D.C. Foldger Shakespeare Library, Chicago Art Institute, hell I could even go out to California, IF I didn't need money. Reality has this way of crushing dreams huh? 97% or so of library internships aren't paid positons and don't offer housing or living stipends either. I'd really like to be in Chicago this summer. I guess I'm still a Midwestern gal at heart in that respect. I could imagine waking up every day and being excited to go to work in a library situated in the Art Institute, take the subway down, or walk past galleries and shops to get there. Then get to enter through the "staff" doors and to walk past famous glorious works of art EVERYDAY! How wonderful would that be? Then, get to sit at a reference desk and answer patron questions about different artists, works of art, or where to find information on a certain architect. I think that would be a perfect fit for me. Actually, collection development and management would be a perfect fit for me too (perhaps this is because I did this at the health sciences lib at the U I for 5 years, and that I'm taking classes in both reference librarianship and collection development this semester) but either way, the setting and environment would be great. Heck, I'd even subject myself to cataloging all day (sorry Christa- it's your cup of tea, not mine) in order to be there. So, that whole, needing to make money to afford my education does rear its ugly head. Perhaps though, I can figure something out.
I guess I still haven't lost that belief that if I try hard enough something good will come my way and be right for me...I already know that is the case for the move to Bloomington. It has definately been the right move for me to make in my life. As nervous as I was to come here and start out again, after 22 years in the same town I grew up in, with the same core group of friends I've had since highschool and even elementary and then adding to that core...I've had to branch out and meet new people that I knew nothing about before saying "hello" I think there is something to be said for that philosophy of "throwing yourself into a new and exciting situation, where you are forced to bond with people over the smallest of things, like, a love of popcorn, or many other commonalities you discover through small talk, until you realize that these people are great. I already feel lucky that, even if I haven't met the entire human composition of my graduate program , I have met, those that I believe are some of the best elements it has to offer. As for the rest of the IU population, I've got a few from the dorm that are also steller girls that I already consider friends.
I worry some that the folks back in IA will forget about me...I feel like if I'm always the one that calls to see how they are doing, they will get annoyed and stop answering the phone when my name comes up, figuring that, as far away as I am (only six hrs) I'm still far enough away that they'll get tired of my pesky questions. When I went home the other weekend I was comforted to know that not much has changed in that town in the six weeks since I left. One of the restaurants changed names, apparently there's a starbucks in the mall now, and my friends, well, they remain the fabulous IC folks I remember them to be. So I guess if I have to be at home this summer, making money instead of in Chicago doing the internship it won't be entirely bad, I'll still have great people to spend the after hours with!
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