My Calling

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Current mood: Inspired and Reflective!

Be prepared to be shocked— I am behind on my tv watching. Yes—it's true. I have fallen behind on my favorite serial tv shows: Jericho; Heroes; hell—I even missed the final episode of Gilmore Girls! I have them all on DVR, so I will get to them at some point, but it's just a strange state of affairs for me.

I've been watching way too much tv since I was a kid. So what's different now? The main thing is that I've been focusing on my career. Until about 5 or 6 years ago, I never even had a career. I had job after shitty job, and I have the ID Badge collection to prove it! But when I became a librarian, my world changed. DAMN—I love being a librarian!

As part of my career-building, I've been checking out Info Island in Second Life and talking to the librarians there, asking about volunteering. I must say, I'm pretty ballsed up about it! More and more I find opportunities for creative, fulfilling work I can do as a librarian.

But wait--let me ask you something before I go on: Do you have a library card? If not, go get one. And if you don't like your local public library, complain about it—they won't know there's a problem unless the patrons say something. It's important that people use and support their public libraries.

Ever have a question about "who was that guy in the movie about the car"? Call a library and ask the reference librarian. That's what we're here for. We LOVE getting reference questions! You don't even have to call your local library—you can call any library anywhere! If you're in the Eastern timezone and your library is closed, call one in California! Whenever I'm on a road trip, and we're trying to find something or figure out something, or hell, even just talking about a movie we can't remember the name of, I'll suggest calling the library where I work and asking them for help finding the information.

If you need a phone number—call the library. If you want to know what's on tv tonight—call the library. Whatever it is, if we don't know the answer, we'll probably know how to find it. Just don't call me to ask what happened on Monday's episode of Heroes—I haven't watched it yet.