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lavvyan kindly sent me some panda love (♥!), so I figured I should probably verify that I am, in fact, still alive over here.

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So, um, yeah.

Oh, since I last posted at the end of May (*insert guilty conscience here*), I haven't told y'all that I successfully obtained my level-up to Librarian II in June. Which was ... rather anti-climactic for all the blood, sweat, and tears put into it. (So... rather like when I handed in my undergrad thesis.)

And in not-yet-happened exciting news, I am going to Germany in November! I've bought my (tragically expensive) tickets and everything! :D This will be my third trip to Deutschland, making it my most-travelled-to country. Which I never would have guessed when I first started travelling abroad in 2003, but I'm totally okay with it. ♥

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Hallo! So, clearly I still need to work on this posting regularly thing again, some more. :/ I dunno, 2012 has been kicking my butt. Or, well, I guess I've been having a hard time catching my breath since last autumn. Basically, I feel like I fail at life lately (where life = not work). Stresssss. I am trying to take better care of myself, but it is hard. /o\

Oh, but I did manage to snag a day in D.C. with the delightful taiteilija in March! :D It was so lovely to see her again (and odd to realize it'd been two and a half years!).

Also, May is a good month for a tea party! (Any month is a good month for a tea party, of course, but you get the idea.) The spring semester is over this week, so perhaps next weekend. Any thoughts on a theme?

In other news, I watched some SGA vids a couple weeks ago and I hadn't realized how much I missed their wee faces! So then I watched Echoes and it is still the best ever. ♥ Also, then I went through my 3-year-old wips folder and now I kind of want to finish stuff. Oh, to have more time in which to do things.

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from nikkikitty
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I utterly fail at picking "just one" of anything. ^^;

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Why hello again! It is less than a month since my last update! Go me!

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How's with you all?

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Inspired by circulatory, who posted some of the best compliments she's received and invited others to bask in love of themselves, too. Because we all need a little ego boost sometimes, especially those of us who find it hard to take a compliment. Just do it!

I have this thing, where I generally think I am an awesome person, but whenever anyone else indicates that they possibly think I am awesome, I get all flabbergasted. I have a really hard time believing that other people do, in fact, think I am awesome. But sometimes it gets through. So here are some of my most cherished compliments (with some paraphrasing, naturally):

-"I love it when you tell me stories."
-"You see the world in a child-like, but not childish way."
-"I love that you just say, 'Can you hold this for a sec?' and hand me your bag and go off to skip across the grass."
-"You're the greatest in my eyes, Laura. You are much appreciated and loved."
-"You have a lovely voice."
-"Energy and light to you, Lady. Have a great day!" (<--not really a compliment, per se, but it was some random message left on the whiteboard outside my door at college when I was having a hell of a year and I'm certain it wasn't actually intended for me because I didn't really have actual friends at that point, but it still absolutely made my day and I will never forget it because sometimes the Universe is listening)
-"I love your sense of humor. I knew you had a great sense of humor when I saw the exclamation point after your name."
-"___ said you must have a charmed life, but that's not entirely true. You work really hard at everything you do. And I am so proud of you."
-"You are an excellent addition to our team."
-"You love what you do and are good at it. That's a great combination in a person who is no doubt easy to work with if she's even half as fun in the office as she is when we're out chattin' and chillaxin'."
-"You are amazing."

You should totally post your own favourite compliments, too. Spread the self-love! ♥

(p.s. This post is not fishing for compliments!)

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Stolen from lysimache. :)

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Belatedly, this makes me so sad: ['Reading Rainbow' reaches its final chapter].

I loved Reading Rainbow as a kid. (Shocking, I know.) And I can tell you without reservation that it was the TV show that had the most impact on me. I mean, I may have had ridiculous amounts of love for the Thundercats or My Little Pony or other such embarrassing shows from the '80s, but Reading Rainbow stuck with me. I still look at picture books in a library or bookstore and see titles that I know from Reading Rainbow.

"Since then, [Simensky] explains, research has shown that teaching the mechanics of reading should be the network's priority."

And that's what really breaks my heart. Because that's absolutely the wrong way to go about it. Yes, the mechanics are important, but if that's all you focus on, you get kids who can read but who don't enjoy it. There's no magic if all they're taught is sounds and syllables and syntax.

I was really lucky because both of my parents read to me a lot when I was a kid. I'm sure I would have grown up loving reading anyway thanks to them. But there are so many children who don't have that luxury, whose parents are too tired after work or are never around or just don't care. And that doesn't make readers. I know. My two half-sisters weren't read to anywhere near as much as I was, and they (being 9 and 13 years younger than me) are growing up with schools that put more and more emphasis on the "mechanics" (and all those evil standardized tests) — and they hate reading. They just have no interest in it because there's no magic for them. All it is to them is homework. And it makes me so sad that that's how we're raising our children now and apparently we can't even have just one "reading is fun!" show.

I turned 26 whilst sitting on the plane at the gate at O'Hare in Chicago (yes, I know my precise birth minute and even factor in time zone differences...). M. assures me that I still look a decade younger than I actually am. I think I can actually pass for 18 now, though, since waitresses in restaurants don't seem quite as smitten by my cuteness these days. (Well, I guess paying with a credit card helps with that.)

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I went in to work yesterday, but then I got kicked out for the rest of the week again. *sigh* I need money!! More than just the $5 from the Cheerios box. Srsly, my next paycheck is going to be hilarious, because I only worked two days in that pay period what with finals and the plague, so it'll be less than $80. D:

But my boss was in Louisiana last week and she brought me back an awesome hat.
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Today I went to school to return some books to the uni library, one of which was due on Tuesday. (Overdue books make me twitchy, not because I am a librarian, but because I am just the weird sort of person who feels extremely guilty about these things.) And there was no fine, yay! So then I took some pictures, just because. Only of course it wasn't just a quiet between-semesters day with no one around. No, today was the annual Master Gardening Class or something like that. And so naturally all the master gardeners were sitting around on their lunch break in front of the most important part of the campus, so I had to hang around for an hour and wait for them to leave.

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Anybody want a [Dreamwidth] invite? I've got two one. Taken!

Oh, um, also I am winkingstar at DW, since I have not actually said so here yet. Er, so if I haven't added you (circled you, whatever), do let me know. My attention to the flist has been rather sporadic with finals and being sick and all. I will probably start cross-posting someday when I am feeling more up to exploring DW further.

Right now, though, I really hate my lungs and would much rather curl up in bed and hide than anything else. And yet I am going to school tomorrow to meet with a professor, having already rescheduled once, where I shall (at least pretend to) be perky and excited.

blergh. Need more tea 'n ice cream.