Leaving

Just one more day until Ross and I leave for San Francisco to see Emily, a friend who used to work at the Triple Door. I am excited to go to a city I once visited as a child and will now be returning to as an adult. I wonder how my perceptions will hold up, for I am no longer a 10 year old boy who once stood in awe of a gigantic red bridge and who was dying to see the Full House house.

I will find out shortly…

I Know Places

I went to see Lykke Li with my friend Sallie and wow, we were both blown away. She is a Swedish singer who is really coming into her own now, having experienced both love and loss in the past few years. Her second album and the one for which she is touring for is titled 'Wounded Rhymes' and deals primarily with her loneliness and her embracing of it (see her song 'Sadness is a Blessing').

While Lykke Li is still young, only in her mid-2o's, her music has matured quite a bit. Her traveling the world for this tour is helping a bit I am sure for when one travels one begins to see the world in a different light and from a different perspective.


Here is Lykke Li - I Know Places

New Ballard Library LA IV

Today is the start date of my new job.
New job = New responsibilities = New challenges = New excitement

I am almost done with my Master's Program at UW in Library Science and Information Technology (I can count down the days until graduation) and I have already landed a full time job with great benefits. More importantly though, I am working at a location where my colleagues are also my mentors, something that is ever important in the information seeking world where technologies and the ways in which we communicate are always progressing and changing.

If you don't seek out challenges and try to tackle them how can you get better than you already are (and it doesn't matter if you were successful or not for that comes later)? This is why landing a job at Seattle Public Libraries' highest volume branch is key to my CE (continuing education). CE doesn't end just because you get a diploma and can now call yourself a "librarian." Who are you kidding really. CE is an everyday action, an everyday act, and it is how you go about tackling such things in you life, both professional and personal, is what makes us who we are.

So yeah admittedly I am a little nervous. Why wouldn't I be. The possibilities are endless but therein lies my first challenge, to take the first step forward.