If I've learned anything in my lifetime, it is that I must expect the unexpected. Each time I think I have life figured out, I know what's coming next, I'm ready for the next five years, there's a sudden turn and I have to rethink everything.

I have my MLS now, and I have long expected that there will be a job locally that will allow me to work fulltime as a children's librarian. I'd like to spend my time doing what I love, helping kids, teens, parents, and caregivers to locate great children'...
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"Time keeps on slippin' into the future." So true. When I last posted in March, I was buried in schoolwork, family life, and library work. Now it's November and I'm still "up to my eyeballs in alligators," but I can see a light at the end of the tunnel. My library school experience will last for one more month and then that part of my library training will end. I won't miss the crazy schedules or the homework; I might miss the camaraderie of group suffering with fellow students.

As time moves ...
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