oh, life

I always feel like I need to update this site, but I get worried that I'll update too much. So then I put it off, and by the time I actually do update I realize that it's been months and that so much has happened. So here goes.

Erinn, in response to your song of the moment, I thought I would share the song/video that I just can't get enough of right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM1RChZk1EU

I'm officially done with the car now. After it was stolen and then abandoned a few blocks away - I decided that I'm over it, and that life will be better without that hassle. So I've been solely working the public transit system for a few months now. I need to sell it for parts or donate it to charity or something. But when my parents (who thought it was a smart idea to keep the title in a lock box in Indiana) mailed the title to me it got lost in the mail somewhere. That was back in January. So now I have to get a new title or something, and the registration is expired. I'm just ready to say goodbye to my car.

I got a promotion at work. So now I'm making a little bit more money. I'm still qualified for two more levels of promotions too - and they would have already bumped me up there if there were a position open. Cross your fingers for two steps up because then I would be making some real money. I still love the kids and people I work with. And I'm starting to get quite a few good stories. Not IH level stories, but more of the kind where I try to keep Jack from pooping on the floor.

I've been talking to this really cute boy. We were supposed to go out this weekend, but that got postponed until next weekend. So we'll see how that goes. I super like him a lot so far.

I have two cool roommates (the boy that was living here moved back to Philly and we replaced him with a really cool girl that actually hangs out with us). We all get along really well. So that's good. Even though I'm sleeping on an air mattress in the living room - I really like my living situation.

I miss you all terribly. I'm starting to get my feet firmly on the ground out here, but it would be much better if you were all out here with me. I hear that there's some sort of New Jersey reunion happening sometime soon. Draw a picture of me and set it down next to you so I can feel like I'm there.

My name is Nick. I'm happy that the sunny and warm weather is symbolic of my life in California right now (as were the cold and rainy winter months), and my favorite Sesame Street character is Grover. Go one.

Breakneck Speed

Is how I feel the semester is going as well as the name of this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkMIxJrrz10

which I am currently like, sooo into.

Life is books and cupcakes and html and CSS and exercising to compensate for all the cupcakes and trying to soak up as much Vitamin D as humanly possible. The weather has been super-beautiful for the past few days so I true to save up reading assignments and then lay lay lay like a reptile in the sun (remember that lady at that service project where we ran out of things to do?) I don't cook enough, for all the complaining I did last year about the lack of a real kitchen. Baking isn't cooking.

I ran for president of the Rutgers Assoc. of Student (School) Librarians (they only have one S in their name though, which irritates me). And I did not get it. My best guess is that my speech about not worrying so much about speakers about jobs and the future and instead focusing on service and outreach was not what people wanted to hear, as evidenced by one person saying to the current president "We all really appreciate all the speakers you brought in". Oops. Anyway I've said all along that the people in almost every other type of librarianship are much chiller. So I'm going to try to start a Librarians For Good group that is service-oriented. Amazingly no other group has that name right now. Thank you, google. My plan is to seek out the other Americorps alum in my classes and hope that she'll be on board. Now I just need to think about things to do aside from book-themed cupcake-oriented bake sales to raise money and book drives and tutoring. Maybe that's enough for now.

I need a job for the summer.

I went for a run the other night and felt like I was struggling towards the end. Then Halo came on and I pictured doing karaoke to it with all y'all who are planning to visit in May (incl. Nick in spirit) and I got so distracted by it that I wasn't struggling as much. For real, it happened like that.

In that vein I still get lonely here. Too many friends all over the place sometimes. SF, Atlanta, Washington, wherever Emily is putting her very short roots down at the time, and from my past life Boston and Miami. If I lived in a less-connected time in history it would be worse. If I didn't have who I have here it would be much much worse. That being said I have failed to fully bond with library school people. I like a bunch of them, it's just not the same. Maybe my service group will help.

Do I say I miss everyone everytime I post? I think I might. What a nerd.

My name is Erinn, my favorite part of a park is the swings, and my goal today is to give a really great book talk. Go one.