home sick

today i'm home sick, sitting in my freezing computer room, trying to plan the rest of my life.

the housing situation is resolved, for the most part. now we just have to do the actual moving. we found an apartment near philly, which makes me happy because it's not in cowtown (otherwise known as our hometown), but it's still in pennsylvania. i have an aversion to living in a state that doesn't care to afford me basic civil rights... but there isn't much we can do about it. that's where my job is.

so. we're going to move, the grrl is going to go back to school, and things are going to start getting pretty interesting.

i am definitely going to ala (there was some question because we're down to three librarians from five over the summer due to retirements) and i'm really looking forward to using the conference to expand my horizons. our library is very insular, and i'm not really comfortable with that. i think we need to network with other libraries because a lot of them are doing it a lot better than we are. i also think our particular environment allows us to become lazy, and i don't want to fall into that trap. i want to learn and publish and move forward.

boredom is the enemy!

and now it's time for cupcakes.